Every so often I look back at the last couple of decades and realise just how many rough‑arsed, half‑finished, random recordings I’ve accumulated. Guitar noodles, feedback experiments, dual‑guitar drifts, drum‑machine sketches, mellow piano grooves, and the occasional “what on earth were we doing” moment from the old Tascam portastudio days.
None of them are polished. None of them are produced. None of them are pretending to be anything other than what they are: 20 years of musical debris.
So I’ve started uploading them to Bandcamp — not as some grand artistic statement, but simply because they exist, they’re part of the journey, and they deserve somewhere better than an ageing hard drive.
And in keeping with the spirit of these tracks, I’ve priced them at the princely sum of 50p. Yes, fifty pence. Overpriced in the extreme, considering most of them were recorded in one take, usually late at night, often with equipment that should probably have been retired long before it was.
But that’s the charm. They’re honest. They’re messy. They’re real.
If you fancy hearing some random slices of the last 20 years — from mellow piano/bass/drums backing tracks to chaotic wah‑wah experiments and layered guitar noodles — they’re now up on Bandcamp for anyone who enjoys the sound of ideas in their earliest, roughest form.
More will (may) be added as I dig through the archives.





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