Five Ways to Escape – Célia Berton
Five Ways to Escape is the beautiful debut EP from Toulouse-based songwriter and vocalist Célia Berton, which we co-wrote through most of 2022. Célia is extremely talented, it was from
The Death of Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen… I’ve not posted for a while but upon hearing of the death of Eddie Van Halen late last night, I felt that I should at least put out
The Beatles ‘Rubber Soul’ – Album Review
After a couple of weeks away from social media and website duties (a flight back from Australia, a number of lyric projects, a general election and Christmas can quickly eat
Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue’ – Album Review
After last week’s catch up blog, today I return to my series of classic album reviews with the only instrumental disc in the collection; Miles Davis’ seminal jazz record, ‘Kind
Update from Oz
Recent blog posts have been album reviews of some of my favourite records but for the last 2-3 weeks, I’ve been either traveling in Cambodia or visiting family in Australia
The Jam Station
In recent weeks I’ve had a huge amount of work as a lyricist – writing songs for/with clients in Paris and Toulouse in France, as well as Switzerland, Senegal and
Brian May Style Analysis
Before I get onto Brian May… This last week has been incredibly busy for me, which is good news! I was working in Toulouse with french pop/soul singer Kessy, with
Jimi Hendrix Playing Analysis
As promised and following on from last week’s analysis of Jimmy Page, here is an article discussing the guitar playing Jimi Hendrix taken from my 2014 Licentiate thesis with the
Jimmy Page Playing Style Analysis
Jimmy Page… While recently searching some old work on a hard-drive I found an article that I wrote for my Licentiate Diploma with the London College of Music in 2014.
Adding Guitar to the 27 Film Soundtrack
27…. As I’ve said before the majority of my work these days is as a lyricist and composer though I entered this business many years ago as a session guitarist