Rather late I’ve come across another personal hero from history – Francisco de Goya. I’ve just finished reading Robert Hughes’ wonderful biography ‘Goya’. Goya suffered a serious illness in 1793, when he was 46, the main result of which was almost complete deafness. Exceptionally Hughes has taken some trouble to understand what this meant for [...]

Back to this again …. last week I was having a drink with Alastair and talking about the state of my project. We got on to this singing while deaf topic and I was just reiterating what I posted before – that it’s really what this is all about, not the music. Alastair thought for [...]

As promised but slightly late – that is, just the same as always – I have finished the 2nd mix down of the new batch which I’m calling My Funny Little Life. It’s another sort of EP. Next week I’m meeting up with Paul to get a couple of my rather plodding keyboard parts improved [...]

I had an interesting conversation last week about the fact that because I can’t always hear myself singing (live that is) I have intellectualised pitch rather than just ‘knowing’ it or feeling it instinctively. Not surprisingly this does sometimes lead to some unexpected results… Now obviously I expect to be judged alongside everyone else pushing [...]

..and it’s time for me to eradicate all the grumpy and bad tempered posts from here and make everything lovely again. Never mind about the things that go wrong…now I’m working on a  new release, 6 songs (although 2 are new versions of songs from ‘Cowboys’).  There are just 7 tasks left now between me [...]

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