another cover of gary numan's electroballad classic.
kept the drums from the original but otherwise a total reworking ..
soft synths this time... free vst, SuperTron and cubases own Halion.
I'm fairly happy with it...I hope you are too :D

are friends electric.

Days, 
a slight re-working of a Chris Patterson composition featuring the wonderful Eoin Kearns on banjo.
Yes indeedy. And so say of all of us.

Days Were Golden

2017 remix of the biscuit song...  now with virtual crumbly bits...

Biscuit song 2017

NJ 2018 remix

Whiskey

slow burning song about the glorification of war, the resilience of the human spirit....and a bit about spoons.... the spoon bit is good.

hahaha.. It's a corker baby.

Feed You Now

Lost and Lonely... an old bass-driven shelf song from maybe 1987 or 88.
only recorded now and thrown together in a few hours....... I'm a slow worker hahaha.

Lost and Lonely

Acoustic version of the timeless Numan classic and perennial game-changer...Are Friends Electric..
Easy enough to break down the four parts to play at different capo settings, less easier to run through it all in one go... which I do with capo on the 4th fret... then playing G F D A and C chords.

Are Friends Electric...

Moment,  recently recorded version of one of the shelf's oldest songs... probably from about 1987.

Moment

I'm Into You... Christmas mix... have a messy Christmas y'all...

I'm into You..

my wee bit of homage to the great Boro singer / songwriter, Chris Rea... always a big fan, not least because I'm from Middlesbrough myself and mis-spent a large part of my youth in one of his fathers numerous cafes...
Bit moody and sombre... but I kinda like it...hope ye do too.

Road To Hell

Chris Patterson played bass guitar in the 1980s and, quite frankly, wasn't very good.
Although he did release one quite wonderful eponymously titled album with his band, The Glass Bureau in 1984...Quite remarkable considering the fact that like himself, the musicians in the band were lacking any recognisable ability.. They were, in short... fucking awful.
Following the inevitable and  much celebrated demise of the band, Chris Patterson went solo, bought a 4-track cassette machine and began his recordings... not content with his truly average bass playing he added truly average guitar playing and truly average keyboard playing to his repertoire.
The Shelf was born... 
They started at the bottom and worked their way down.

we hope you enjoy some of these tunes and thank you for dropping by.

shelfy

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