Ah, yes. About.

Born a while ago, brought up after a fashion. Been playing around the London circuit since the last Tory government at least. Have a tendency not to want to write about myself in the third person, even if that would give the impression I had a crack promotional team working for me. Although it wouldn't work, would it.

There ought also to be pictures of me here, probably in that big blue gap to the right. Something stylish, probably, or a brave stab at stylishness, looking moody or something, black and white, perhaps, I don't know, I'm not the marketing type, but, well... I'm old as sin and twice as ugly. That's all you need to know. It's not as if you need to see it.

There are albums - I recorded Plucked in 1998, originally, and made a bunch of tapes (I think I've still got some of them around here - tapes weren't as hot a product in 1998 as one might have hoped), and in 1999 re-mixed it and began to make CDs. Hand-crafted CDs. Let's be euphemistic about it. The image of the hand on the cover is labelled with the letters used to denote the fingers of the right hand on sheet music I've seen - little to big e, a, m, i and p. Consequently people seem to think it's called Eamip

The Secret Agent's Dream was recorded the following year. I was doing shows at the Edinburgh Festival, and thought it would be nice to have ... product. Can't imagine what I was thinking - what kind of a human being thinks it would be nice to have "product". Produce, yes. But that would be a farmer. Not me. Anyway, for a ten-track guitar-and-vocal album, it took a long time. Dreadful kerfuffle. There was rain leakage into my flat (having passed through two flats above me), that sort of thing. The cover is the thought balloon with "Shh..." in it. Therefore people, quite understandably, think the album's called "Shh..." So that's a two-out-of-two failure of using the medium of the cover to tell people what the album's actually called. Mad design skillz, me.

Took a break after that. Actually, I was doing all sorts of things, but recording didn't really seem to count amongst them.

In 2009 I began recording lots of things, and uploading old tracks to this very website, or the one that preceded it. Something or other every week from February to November, and then I took my favourites (or at least the ones that worked best together) and made Another Time. Or as it's more popularly known "The Blue One With the Flowers On It".

Three out of three, then.

All the other tracks I uploaded aren't here any more, but they'll probably turn up in one form or another. At some point.