Recorded Work

I've done quite a bit of recording over the years, offering extreme variations in levels of seriousness and quality. Some of it has been released on the general public, and some hasn't. That which has is listed in the discography section. The rest resides in posterity, or at least, it should. Some of it resides at Abbey Road Studios, and yet more of it resides in Manchester Square. These items are in EMI's extensive archives, and include New Model Army demos, unused mixes and abandoned songs. Some of these have escaped into the public domain, by means of various bootleg collectors you can find on the net. I should know, because one of them sent me about 16 hours worth of the stuff, including about a dozen live shows from the mid-to-late eighties. Some I recorded with bands as a session player, some with bands looking for a deal, and some for a laugh. Amazingly, I've been pretty slack about getting hold of, or keeping, things that I've recorded. Sometimes I find a box of old and knackered cassettes that are the only surviving versions of age-old recording sessions. The Ghost of Cain album was demoed on two four-track cassette machines in 1985/86, and I don't have anything from those tapes in my possession. Similarly, the Brave New World sessions in London contained the earliest versions of some Ghost of Cain songs, but I've got nothing from there either, although I do remember recording Fury, which was used as a B-side for Love is...Sweet Romance, that I forgot to put in the discography.

Bearing all that in mind, what follows is a selection of tracks from a wide variety of bands, all of which feature me in some way. I've compressed all the files to a net-friendly 16 bit 64kbps mp3 format. The quality is fair, but in some cases, I'm working with an old cassette as a master, so quality has nothing to do with it. They're all right to listen to, but you'd be foolish to burn them onto CD because they're not good enough. I've bunched things together by band as far as possible.