This is my debut, I wanted to start off with a short song to get things going. 
It's all about the best moments, laughing and drinking with your partner at the weekend...watching them having a fantastic time in your company, especially after having a tough week.

For The Longest Time

Recorded this song 30 years after I wrote it! I found it on an old cassette and decided to make something of it, I added extra lyrics and went for what to me is an old school indie rock band sound and attitude. It's a short one and I'm happy with how it turned out.

Been Around The World

If you pushed me hard, I'd say I'm an indie rock guy, but that's just part of it. At 15 I started making up songs, at 18 I
formed a band, sung and guitared, we did alright locally, I continued writing and accumulated 100s of songs, 10% of which actually aren't all that bad. 

Biggest influences are The Beatles, the first band I really loved as a kid. Bob Dylan. The Smiths. The Velvet Underground. Pixies. Radiohead. 

Since 2007 when I started on youtube, I've been studying music production and now I'm ready to get out there again and do something with the big back catalogue of songs I have on paper, cassette, mini-disc, phones, laptops and hard drives.

Now, years later, I've fully returned to my original goal of writing and recording music, this time better informed, well prepared and with a big head full of ideas.

I've got lots of work to do and that's how I like it, busy making music and making up for lost time.

Simon N. Barker

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