Ballard

Just found this great live-in-the-studio film of Jason Falkner, a musician who’s influenced me massively. I’ve still not managed to match his talents (I doubt I ever will) but I’m bloody trying! For more videos go here – Falkner-tastic!

I’ve filmed a video! At 8.30am this morning I climbed into a car with my good friend Ian Brown and set off for Winter Hill, on the moors above Bolton. He then proceeded to film me as I ran up and down the road that leads to the Winter Hill transmitter, dressed in vintage running [...]

I was listening to a podcast at work yesterday. I listen to lots of podcasts at work as it’s so boring I need something to get me through. This particular podcast is from Inside Home Recording and it was the first one I’d listened to. It wasn’t bad, if a bit dry at times, but [...]

I was reading an SOS article about the recording of You Really Got Me and it got me thinking. It still sounds great, no matter what I listen to it on. A lot of old songs do.
They also, however, sound quite different compared to the latest Lily Allen single or Athlete’s latest effort to be the [...]

I won a raffle a few weeks ago; two prizes with three tickets. A crate of Stella (which I don’t really like) and some sort of duck-shaped sponge were my prizes. It cost me £1, which I’m sure you’ll agree is quite a result. But I can do better than that.
How about some free music? [...]

I’ve got another song up for download in the music section. To be honest I don’t know what to do with it so I thought I might as well let someone else enjoy it besides me.
It’s called What You Want (go on, click on the arrow and have a listen) and is best described as [...]

I had a walk around the Trafford Centre – Manchester’s temple of shopping – a few weeks ago and started noticing how vulgar it all seems in these days of credit crunch (which incidentally was a new cookie at Millie’s).
I got home and started to write a song about it, but as usual it turned [...]