O - Kay To Go

Sparks

A mashup of several versions of 'Points of Authority', ranging from the Hybrid Theory demoes with reversed verse chorus order, to the album version, and the way that they were playing it live on the 2008 Milton Keynes tour DVD, combined with two versions of High Voltage -- The 'shake the shock' version and the 'sometimes I feel like a prophet' version. 

I think I made this in 2015, so quite old.

Voltage Points (Linkin Park Cover)

Only to See TV2 - U2 Parody

Submission for 135 AABA format... I was under the influence of influenza trying to think of lyrics and came up with a story about being sick and trying to think of lyrics. 


Well it ain't easy to think of lyrics
When your head is full of snot
Well it ain't easy to think of lyrics
When your brain is crying stop

Well it ain't fun to sing a song
When your voice won't make a peep (peep!)
Well it ain't great to be writing music
When your body just wants to sleep

Now I could have my brand new Squier Stratocaster in my hands
But it doesn't really help matters - Cause songwriting is in your head

Well It Ain't Easy

2006 Composition. I swear I had never heard Thriller before in my life when I devised this.

Featuring vocals performed by Ryan

Lonely (Remix)

With apologies to David Holmes and Steppenwolf

180 Million Dollar Chinese Man

Dylan once told me this song 'sounds like the B-52's playing Walk This Way', which I take as a high compliment.

I have written lyrics for this song but will never record them.

Token Clavichord

This really is a highlight of my life.

We rehearsed this set for months. We had it nailed and locked in. Nothing would suprise us anymore.

And then because the gig was a little bit of an 'event', and the spotlights were on, and the crowd was waiting, and we were nervous... our drummer surprised us. He counted off the first 1-2-3-4-..... and my stomach dropped and all my cool was gone. We had never played any of these songs at this incredible tempo that we had spontaneously rocketed away into.

Our performance in this gig was hardly error-free. Craig did a blooper where he did a two minute intro in the wrong key and had to redo it. My bass playing is highly innaccurate and in one song I had to sit down to get a better angle on the fretboard which I didn't need at slow pace - not very rock and roll! Tim dropped an intro in the middle. Ash the drummer starts all the songs at high speed then spends the rest of the song trying desperately to keep up, sometimes only able to keep time without having the brain space for fills. That goes for all of us. Occasionally we would all miss cues because we remembered that certain bit didn't come in until later.

This is a special gig, because we are rediscovering these songs brand new in front of a crowd, with all the nervousness and flushed energy (and fat fingers) that goes along with that. The intense nervous energy of this set always gets me.

Setlist:

1 Down in the Shadows
2 She Sparkles
3 Tokyo Rose
4 House of Clowns (a personal favourite)
5 Driving Blind
6 Where Did She Go
7 Little China
8 The Raincoat (one of my favourite basslines, when I don't balls it up)
9 Blood Red Roses

The Tommy Gunners Live @ Reverberation

I didn't really understand how producing worked beyond basic 4-track principles, but I was on a mission to make this the LOUDEST song anybody had ever heard. I still plan to reuse this riff someday.. it's a winner.

AK*HK (short for Atomic Karma Humanity Kitten) was a fun little collab between me and Katie around 2012ish.

Atomic Karma Humanity Kitten

Liar (Taken For Granted)

My September

I took an awkward social situation, and applied my all-consuming desire to make music as good as the album Ellen Hardcastle by Hank Green.....

Oh dear...

Second Album

My Best Friend Already Likes You

This was a fun attempt to mix something that sounded like the beatles, or even earlier.

A Friend Named Kate

Daaaaaaamn this version was abandoned but actually might be the silkiest one.

LIAR (early demo)

My version of the Tommy Gunners hit. Replacing all guitars with my ukulele, and everything is a bass solo. Just like it oughtta be.

Andrew Kwiatkowski

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