About 12 years ago the BBC ran a cartoon series called “Little Monsters”. I wrote songs for five of the characters (see below)

Recently I came across some DVD’s in the pound (£1) shop so I bought a couple for my granddaughter who was not born at the time of the original shows. Whilst refurbing my studio I’ve come across the DAT master so I’ll cut her a CD as well as putting the tracks up here in MP3 format.

The songs are kind of a pastiche of things from The Beach Boys to Bon Jovi but I recall having a lot of fun writing and recording them even if the production company had a rather strange way of releasing product.

The tracks were produced partly in my project studio and then finished off with vocals, guitars and mixing in one of my favourite studios, Fred Purser’s “Trinity Heights” in Newcastle.

Vocals are handled by , Phil Caffrey, Mick Whitaker, Tanya Rowlands, Paul Caffrey and the massed voices of St Albans Primary School, Walker. I handled all the instrumentation and I can spot myself on some of the voice characterisations.

You can hear the tracks by clicking on the character or their name. Two of the tracks are not the mixes actually released. “Tell Tale Tallulah” is an extended mix featuring Mick’s scat vocals which are beyond the fade on the released track. “Dangerous Dave” features the “heavy mix” rather than the tamer one for release. Actually, Fred Purser, a former member of the Tygers of Pan Tang (for whom I’d written songs) remarked that “Dave” could have been Tygers Mk2 – scary huh?

Wide Awake Wesley	Friendly Franco	Shy Sophie
Tell Tale Tallulah	Dangerous Dave	Characters (c) Splash Productions