Winning the Smile
I’ve just finished off the first of the three songs that have been worked on for the last week or so, ‘The Winning Smile’. I ended up taking out all the midi tracks and keeping everything analogue – vocals, guitar,…
And Here Comes the Ice Pick in the Forehead!
This was a very productive evening, following a bit of research over the last few days, I have written and recorded the basic backing parts for a whole new song. It is an upbeat, almost 50’s style, song about the…
The Bell Curve
Another set of backing tracks have been completed, this time for a short spoken-word piece by Sean, called “The Bell Curve“. It is a very laid-back track, starting with an atmospheric build up of synth textures which give way to…
Busy Busy
Collaborations It’s been a hectic month or two, mostly due to the day job, but there has been a little progress on various musical fronts. Non-Lunacy Board collaborations are ticking over very slowly. One is a duo with an electronic…
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Lunacy Launch
Happy New Year! The Lunacy Board have now officially launched, with our first track “The Unofficial National Anthem” being available for download from our website at www.lunacyboard.com. The song is an unusually upbeat number featuring a fairly standard rock base…
December Will Be Magic Again
We’ve managed to squeeze in a last Lunacy Board session before the end of the year, and I’m pleased to say that it was a bit of a blinder. Having had a few sessions now to settle into what we’re…
Miniminiminiminiminalistic
Final Track of the Week Phill Up The Glass Week 17 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. For the last ‘Track of the Week’ (at least for the next few months), here’s another original track from the Bordet / Leigh…
Why Doesn’t Somebody Buy Him A Guitar?
Track of the Week Soundtrack of a B-Movie Week 16 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. In one of the periods between Deserters activity in the late 80’s, Jennifer Leigh & I recorded a limited run album called ‘Mux-Ip’, which…
Complexion Like Mouldy Corned Beef
Track of the Week Heavy Metal Ballad Week 15 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. We’re coming towards the end of this run of free downloadable goodies. Whilst there is more Deserters music in the archives, it’s not yet in…
Polish the Blade
Track of the Week The Complete 1978 Song Week 14 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. This song has a similar feel to ‘The Woman In Red’, however this is certainly no love story, but a very sparsely arranged murder…
