Well, I thought I'd better put this one back up. It used to be pride of place on the last site.

The funny thing is that this recording is from a number of years ago. So long ago that I can't actually remember how to play it now. My relationship with the guitar is sporadic at best, and down right rude at worst. So at some point I am going to have to get someone who actually can play, like Robert or Simon to teach me my own song. Brilliant.

So, this was recorded in the acres of time I had to myself, sitting in a lovely little room in a tower block in Sydney. Rhythm was supplied by kitchen equipment and various rices and grains, and the mic for the guitar lay on the table, pinned from rolling by two pint glasses. I can still sense the embedded heat in this piece.

To be honest I should probably apologise for this one. It is a truly caustic synth workout that rather tears at the inner ear. Its name came to me after I met this real person, from then on the song and the person began to merge in my mind. Both are characterised by a kind of empty, shouty positivity that ends up being spoken too fast and for too long, rendering all meaning like a smashed bottle of perfume. Well that's my take on it.

This track is a solo effort and one that I made specifically to be played live. I had my small Korg, and my laptop set up with Ableton Live and I basically kept shifting speedily between the two trying to keep up with myself. Thanks to Simon and Pete for making me do such a silly thing in front of people I know. Anyway against all the odds I think it worked out pretty well. Sort of wet sounding, lots of accordian (prerecorded back the house, as I only have two hands) and some odd rhythm business going on, which I was triggering by hitting various keys on the laptop. So what do you reckon, has it got enough in it to sustain a listen in a non-live environment? I am completely blinded to it now, as it feels like more of a process than a piece now, in my mind.