Episodes
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Goldfish Bowl
Goldfish Bowl is a surreal look at corporate life, where routine becomes repetition and progress feels suspiciously circular. Blending office politics with Alice in Wonderland imagery, it's a journey through ivory towers, endless paperwork, rabbit holes, and the relentless pursuit of "higher,...
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Listener On The Wires
Listener On The Wires is a song about the quiet ways technology listens in. Vintage‑leaning drums, low strings and layered harmonies carry a story of signals, surveillance and the feeling of being observed even when you’re alone. A modern analogue‑soul reflection on how the wires around us never...
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Another 1958
“Another 1958” drifts through a smoky, mid‑century memoryscape — coffee bars, radiograms, comma vans and late‑night streets. It’s a quiet piece of domestic surrealism, built on Rhodes warmth and observational lyrics that feel like objects remembering their owner. A nostalgic loop of long hours,...
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Accident Amnesia Conspiracy Theory
Accident Amnesia Conspiracy Theory, A monochrome descent into fractured memory and digital paranoia. A man wakes up in hospital with no recollection of his accident, surrounded by machines that hum like conspirators. Clinical precision meets emotional distortion. Noir dream rendered in circuitry...
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The Silent Majority
The Silent Majority A broadcast from a fractured future. A lone voice drifts through analog static and bureaucratic noise, questioning identity in a world ruled by machines. Synth pulses echo like heartbeats under surveillance; humanity flickers between signal and silence.
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Incident In Wandsworth / Incident Dub
The song "Incident In Wandsworth" captures me witnessing unrest and racial hatred in West London in the late 70s? Here are the lyrics: Verse 1: Walking through the dusty streets of West London The sounds of the city around me fill my senses All my plans and intentions have come undone Arches,...
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London Fields
“London Fields” drifts through the half‑lit corners of East London, where solitude feels strangely familiar and every shadow carries a memory. A blend of hazy Rhodes, fractured delay, and late‑evening melancholy, it’s a song about standing alone in a place that still somehow feels like home.
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Chestnut Grove
Chestnut Grove by SteveClarke
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Zen Garden
A calm, meditative song. Lyrics: Verse 1: Morning on the back steps Tea gone cold in the cup Tracing the circles in the sand Pebbles and stones break [up Trail across the gravel I’m standing here alone Mysteries that unravel At the lake where I skim the stones Chorus: Zen Garden Calm my restless...
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Genius Is Pain
Genius Is Pain Verse 1: One thing I have learned. Genius is pain You pick your self off the ground. Just to be knocked down again One thing you must know You have to face the truth The wisdom of your age Is not wasted on the youth Chorus 1: There is music to be found In the sweet sound of…
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Hopeless Case
A love song. The central theme is how uncoordinated and hopeless I am round the subject of my affections. Here are the lyrics. Hopeless case I lost all trace of reason since I met you Hapless clown defences down how easily I let you Get under my skin and I'm free falling hear you calling my name...
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Bald Architect
Bald Architect is a slow, heartfelt ballad about friendship, distance, and the quiet ways time reshapes the people we once knew. The song traces the life of Terry — a schoolfriend from days of technical drawing classes, lunchtime guitars, and the feeling that the future was wide open. Built…
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Templeton On Sea
The song is about visiting my favourite English seaside town in winter when it's quiet and enjoying the peace and tranquility.
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Alien Landscape
"Alien Landscape" is a metaphor for how broken down and derelict a city looks late at night when the pubs and clubs all chuck out.
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Bad Timing
The song is about a person's inability to always be in control of fate and luck and to accept how things fall sometimes and go with the flow.
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Penny For The Guy
A song about English village life in the style of Ray Davies.
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Roadkill
A song about how much I hate driving.
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Artificial Supidity
A song about society's troubled relationship with new technology. Chorus: Artificial stupidity Technology is making me look stupid Highlighting my inability In a brave new world Verse 1: I tried to open the thing on my computer But it was having none of it There was a problem with the software on...
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What We Need Is More Love
An anti war song.
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See You Next Tuesday
Just a quick pop song to try out a new guitar plugin
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First Mistake
First Mistake by SteveClarke
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Icarus
The song references characters from greek mythology as a metaphor for all the wrongdoing in the world. Lyrics Verse 1: Icarus flew too close to the sun Wax and wings melted and he was done Prometheus stole his fire from the gods Breaking up rocks against the odds Reflection that stares too long…
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Second Thoughts
Second Thoughts by SteveClarke
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It Hasn't Turned Out Nice Again
Inspired by George Formby's catchphrase "Turned out nice again". Looking at the the world today, It hasn't turned out nice again.
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Glass Cage
Lyrics: Verse 1: I got the room at the top - window in an office block I'm gazing out on the river at night bathed in neon light I stare I got everything I need I got the brains to succeed So why do I feel the walls closing in got me living in my nightmare Chorus: But if I could be half the man I...
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Strike A Light
Chorus: Cor blimey strike a light, guv It’s your round mine’s a pint, bruv Would you like a white wine, love Cor blimey strike a light Verse 1: Mrs Brown you got a lovely daughter I have thoughts about her I know I didn’t oughta Are you going to Barnet Fair Catch the train I’ll meet you there Cor...
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Ex Wife
A story of a phone conversation with my ex Lyrics: Verse 1: I was working in the lab late one night I heard the telephone ring and saw the blinking light I picked up the receiver and I said “who’s there?” I heard a voice the other end and felt a chill of despair Pre Chorus 1: An uncontrollable…
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Down To The Coast
A song about escaping the noise of the city and finding peace at the seaside.
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One Of Those Days
This is a very old song that I have updated with a different feel as well as writing some new lyrics and a middle 8. All of the the things in this song have happened to me me at one time or another, just not in the same day ;)
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Merry Go Round
Based around an XTC riff. I thought it sounded discordantly uneasy like when you want to get off a merry go round (It's a metaphor).
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West London Boys
I wanted to write a song about my football team QPR. I wanted to avoid the usual "we are the greatest team the world has ever seen" cliche (we clearly aren't). I ended up reminiscing about growing up in West London and attending games and tried to describe the events and emotions. It's kind of...
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Positive Outlook
Updated version of this song with Moog synth and improved guitar sounds. Also has my wife (who is an infinitely better singer than me) doing backing vocals
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White Noise
Most of this song is based around a simple four chord pattern. It describes the intangible nature of inspiration as "white noise" on our creative conciousness
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Downtime
This is a song I wrote during a period when I was suffering a long bout of creative block. I figured the best way to tackle creative block was to write a song about it. The original recording I made was dull and uninspired. When I came to re-record it I thought what can I do to improve it? What...
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Secret Of My Success
** new re-recorded version ** New song that came from a London Songwriters meetup collaboration. I took the song away, rewrote the chorus, added a middle 8 and changed a few lyrics here and there.
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Weekend
Old recording of this song with Bernie Fallon on drums (who you can see in the picture at the back) A comment of the binge drink culture of the time, it's still very relevant today.
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