st jude - Still

st jude : Later (Ghost mix)

Souped up fandango version with good rolling bassline - still missing my fade outro metaphysical rant which I shout as I drive through the gloaming

st jude : Later (Heaven to Mars version)

One take vocal on nasty Logitech headphone mic - good rambling geetar, lovely work by Tom S


st jude : Birdsong

Long dreamed of assassination lullaby for George W.  Rockaby Guantanemo Baybeeee. Giant production noise by Adam Fox, who broke bass strings and several vertebrae.  Is that Mark E Smith crooning in the looming chaos at the close? Possibly the only song in history to feature the word 'motorcade'.  Live fiddle, sampled blues 'arp.  Sounds even better on just acoustic and vox, Tom in detuned roadside shambleslide guitar.  Me dressed as blind performing monkey staring into middle space.  The video for this goes as follows:  Dark painterly stylised set,  dark gothic wood with curving road leading to golgotha style craggy hill.  Four soldiers carry a coffin draped with an American flag; I am dressed as a well known arabic bearded agent provocateur and sitting cross-legged atop said burial vessel.  I sing as the vocals kick in.  camera pans to the top of the hill - my destination - where there is a crucifixion scene.  Left and right crosses contain Mickey Mouse costumed figure and Donald Duck.  In the centre, face raised to his forsaking father is Ronald McDonald. I haven't thought beyond that tableau, although assembled cast doing some RiverDance style hoppitty skippitty would certainly leave the audience profoundly moved.

st jude : Jawbone

First inspiration standing on the stone marker at the age of 12 atop Mount Eagle in Dingle on the West Kerry coast.  Thereon thirty years later with friends along Findhorn bay at the water's edge beyond the boathouses in the late evening.  Enough to make you cry.

st jude : Gravity

Super overdriven version to the point of distortion. Turn it down to turn it up.  Great keyboard intro that went missing in catfood kitchen.

st jude: This fragility - big sound

Tumbling chord sequence, simpler when just the two of us, but a decent big sound version here

st jude : Displacement Song

st jude :  Stay as you are - mellotron mix

st jude - Sunflower Head

st jude - Miracle Mile

st jude - Another Morning Song (piano, drumbox rough base idea)

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Here are a few samples of ever more rarely stolen musical trysts with myself Tom and my main man Tom S as 'st jude' 

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