Radio Owlsnest Episode 49 - On Air With Martin Page

Greetings oh feathered beauties! I am back with more hidden bounty from my ancient song archives. More rare demos, sonic experiments and even a brand new track will hopefully charm your “OwlHead” ears. It was wonderful to work back in the day with the fine singer/songwriter/guitarist Hamish Stuart of the iconic band, “The Average White Band”. I’ll start off the show by playing you a track we wrote together that became a single for his band, “Easy Pieces”; A cool psychedelic soul number that I now think was somewhat influenced by the “Prince” aesthetic. Of course, Hamish went on to work with Paul McCartney and is now presently with Ringo Starr … so it was lovely to discover and spin this little gem from our past. For the songwriters out there, I’ll play two demos I was working on with Robbie Williams - two rough home demos of the same idea, which illustrates quite well how I develop a concept. I think you’ll find it very interesting how my demos were presented and constructed for Robbie … to inspire and encourage him to engage and develop an idea with me. And here’s a treasure for all Jack Hues (Wang Chung) fans: I’ll play the cassette demo of a song we were writing together for his (so far) unreleased renowned solo album “The Anatomy Lesson”. It’s a very, very COOL track … and, although we are loosely jamming and it’s just rough and ready, the potential of this song is self evident. Because the re-ignition of the “Pagey Quiz” lit up the internet and caused traffic to stop during last month’s episode, I will be asking you three more incredibly hard brain curdling “Pagey” questions. These are conundrums from which I believe even the most wise OwlHead will cower away - fearing that investigating these questions could cause neural problems. Beware - approach with extreme caution. I’ll spin a terrific London-recorded demo - a song I wrote and performed with Brian Fairweather that Kim Carnes eventually heard and recorded on her album, “Cafe Racers”. It became “Fairweather/Page’s” first top ten adult/contemporary hit in America … and listening to it today, I’m very proud of the Doobie Brothers/Pointer Sisters swing and irresistible groove we achieved on this particular demo. I always like to include a new song I’ve just written if I can on these shows, and I’m happy this month to present a song called, “How”. I hope you like it and that it speaks to you. Bloody hell, this is the penultimate episode 49, we are nearly at the final 50th show; who would have thought, “I’d ever get my feet this far”. 🦉 Enjoy. Martin X