A Bit More Plumbing
what I’m trying to achieve here is to post to WordPress AND Blogger. Steve T
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Paris By Air
Dateline 1979 (ish) and I was house producer at Impulse Studios, Wallsend, UK and producing for Neat Records. I had set up a sister company, Neat Music Publishing and had done a sub-publishing deal with Bruce Welsh of the Shadows. This took care of the Neat Catalogue but the arrangement also handled my own songs. … Read more
Johnny Two Phones
I finally did something sensible (I think) with technology. I bought an expensive state of the art (at the time) HTC Desire. As a Mac user I didn’t want to put all my “apples” in one basket so went Android instead of iPhone. I really do like Android. However, all that desirability of apps is … Read more
Occupy Stanhope
I have been working with Jack Drum Arts of County Durham on a Community Play based on the subject of the 1818 “Battle of Stanhope”. The play will run for 3 days in March 2012 in a barn in Stanhope. Basically the story goes like this: the Napoleonic wars had ended and there was a … Read more
Diverse
For no apparent reason this thought came to me as I was out driving: “I’ve played guitar with the Jeff Beck group and sung with the Nolan Sisters”. How diverse is that? So. how did these two, poles apart situations come about? Well, firstly producer Wayne Bickerton picked up on one of my songs and wanted to … Read more
Remembering Charlie Crane
Charlie Crane I met Charlie Crane mid to late 80’s through my work as a songwriter. I had just come to the end of a publishing contract with MCA Music and Charlie had just left employment as a publisher (can’t remember – maybe it was ABC Music) I was looking for a new publisher and … Read more