This is the last of the six I recorded and as such sounds a little more refined. I recorded an original version with a much shorter solo but a friend asked why I cut it short as it was just getting going.. I secretly felt the same and had no good answer so re-recorded the solo a few weeks later to produce what you hear here. Played on an acoustic guitar made this somewhat challenging and more stilted than it would be played on an electric but I think it's probably the best of the six all the same.

06 Only One For Me (This One) Extended Mix (demo)

Conceived as a kind of up beat 'summer' dancey track.. 

05 Beautiful Day (demo)

A slower paced track that is well.. hmmm.. the one I am least happiest with really. It needs something.. possibly a lot of things. Definitely some more atmospherics or something to fill it out.

04 Every Time (demo)

Actually this one I wrote years before - at least the guitar bit - and sort of developed it this time around. 

03 Broken Free (demo)

This one was heaps of fun to do. A kind of 'post-punk' Billy Korgan rock inspired number with a faux-live sound to build in some forgiveness for the feedback-ey and overly distorted stadium kind of sound. It's rough but I have to admit I kinda like it that way. That doesn't mean I can't learn how to improve it though!

02 Want You  (demo)

"Love Alligator" started as a joke chorus I would sing to my g/f (now wife). She asked me for months to actually write the song but I always dismissed the idea. So when she went away for work for a few days I thought (with her birthday coming up the day she gets back) I would finish writing the song and record it - so I did!
Little did I realise that it would turn into a three-day, six track project. ;) The recording is as rough as hell. The vocals need work, it peaks, it's technically a train wreck but my wife loved it so mission accomplished. That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to polish it up though.

01 Love Alligator (demo)

Live recordings of the "Chantageasse Sessions".
Three acoustic tracks honouring and celebrating the union of the amazing Fab & Hannah.

Performed by: 
Amy Worth - Vocals
Helen Longworth - Vocals / Ukelele
Shane Ward - Guitar

Recorded 1st September 2015 at Domaine de Chantageasse, Poitou-Charentes, France.

"Us" (cover) - Live At Chantageasse

"Dog Days Are Over" (cover)- Live At Chantageasse

A cover of the duet "Fade Into You" by Shane & Charlotte Ward - as performed at the wedding of friends in France September 2015.

While we're not professional, it's performed from the heart.

(Original song composed by Matt Jenkins / Shane McAnally / Trevor Rosen)

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