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This song is track two on my first properly released album (You Wouldn't Do That At Home). It's another one of those that seemed to write itself, but started life as I wandered round the house playing my guitar, trying to find an acoustic sweet spot to record a different song. The little Em sus4 intro, into a C, with a capo on 2. The rest fell into place very quickly. I thought it sounded pleasant enough but I quite liked the words. I wrote too...

Dead In Your Garden wrote itself on the 15 minute cycle ride to work one morning. I put on my white coat, sat down at my bench in the lab and wrote down the words, the keyboard tune, and the bassline. Took it to the band the same night. I asked Dave the drummer to play a straight 4/4, a phrase I'd only just learnt, and he did but with one of his signature twists. The song was too high for me to sing comfortably but we left it. Simon added some...

I mean, the good stuff. The tunes you can remember, that don't all sound the same as each other. They might be old, they might be new. I don't cover songs unless I love them, what would be the point? Still. There's a ton of music still to discover, still being made, still to be written. There's an infinite variety to be had out of those few notes. If you listen to the radio for a while you might get the impression that modern music is written by...