GOGCAST

Milk Thru The Fence

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:52:09 +0000

Acoustic version of Milk Through The Fence - a favourite from my first round of demo’s. This is recorded ‘live’ with some backing vocals added later. I’ve added this to the ‘cast since rediscoverin’ it on the external hard drive, I like the energy of the recordin’ - no tricks, no frills. The song was written after reading about animal cloning and how a genetically modified pig’s heart could be used as a substitute in a human heart transplant. This added another level to my obsession with Animal

Overtime at the Landfill

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:09:21 +0000

This started out life as 'Flip Top Town' with different lyrics but on the same subject ie rubbish. I thought it was fitting to redo it as a christmas number seeing as it's probably the busiest time of the year for bin-men, who have gone unnoticed for too long, especially at this time of year.

Lie of the Land

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:30:57 +0000

I came up with this riff and melody after having an unbelievable urge to do so and not knowing why, I was working for a printers in Glasgow at the time and I was far from enjoying it, this acted as some kind of release from the tension of the working day. I hadn’t written anything new in about a year and I was beginning to think I had had my chips so I was determined to come up with something I felt was decent. Like buses though, when this came it was shortly followed by another two new songs.

The Drop

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:27:19 +0000

Carrying on the theme established in ‘The Sneeze’. The moment of contact with the ground is the point at which I disappear - as if entering a portal to a different place/time/dimension? who knows... what I do know is hanging around the woods half naked while making this was a tad risky.

The Sneeze

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:27:19 +0100

An escapist, that’s what I am. I guess I’ve always been, some of my earliest memories when finding myself in a tricky situation, I would shake my head violently until I would ‘wake up’ safe, in the knowledge that it was all just a lousy dream. I occasionally feel the need to do it now in adulthood and most of the time i aint dreamin’. The Sneeze takes the idea of moments of weightlessness like those when you sneeze as ‘portals’ to another reality. A quick bit of editing later and I’m gone. This

Man, The Machine

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:27:19 +0100

Developed from a riff I’ve had for years Man, The Machine combines some seriously reverby guitar with a beast of a beat. Vocals are deliberately mixed down and not so audible, purposely to build up texture. I’m picking and strumming the chords simultaneously throughout. The second part of the song combines the vocals and guitar which follow the same melody, I was hoping to achieve a climax of orgasmic proportions. A main influence for this is definitely ‘We’ by Brad. - the second half of that so