The Good Hurt

Kick This Habit of You
My new band The Good Hurt was formed in Manchester late in 2006. We’re now playing live in the NW England and it is about time that I dropped a little blog about how the band got together and who is in it and all o’ that.
I was wanting to get [...]

Guitar Amps Dream of Shifting Air Like a Flute

Madness -this has sat in Drafts for 4 months…oops…
Just had a flute session for Louis Oak Anderson’s EP due out this summer with the wonderful wind player Ian Dixon. Ian’s played on all kinds of things from the BBC Radio Orchestra to Primal Scream and Joni Mitchell.
Ian was brought up in Lancashire and and [...]

Billy Preston RIP

The great singer-songwriter and performer Billy Preston, the “Fifth Beatle” has died after a long illness as a result of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. He dies in Arizona where he’d been in a coma for nearly a year.
Billy was menatuared by Ray Charles early in his life and went [...]

Louis ‘Oak’ Anderson Session

Hi there,
Just thought I’d drop a note about a two day session I had recently with the young singer/songwriter Louis ‘Oak’ Anderson from Devon.
On a stag weekend up North a few months ago a buddy of mine, Russell, played me some songs by Louis. They had worked in the same surf shop and both been [...]

Scale by Drongomala now available on iTunes

Hi there – well it took a while but Scale by Drongomala is now on iTunes .
You can buy the whole record or do it track at a time.
Click the album cover below and it will open up your iTunes application (normal) – then you can preview tracks and buy.

Enjoy!
Drongomala
show your support – which now [...]

She’s a Puzzle – Free Download

Confusion with women and not ever getting the relationships right? Secretly worried that you are an aggrandising bastard and your standards are too complicated to work out? Fractuous sparks between you and your other half? Mmm..yep – it’s not all bubblegum that will pop forever or your money back you know. The underbellies get all [...]

Scale by Drongomala for Sale – Press Release and BUY link

Drongomala is set to release his first solo album Scale on Flying Mountain Records. Scale came to life in many locations including Southern India, a Greek island and the UK, before being mixed in the famous Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco – a life-cycle that gives the album a truly border and genre-busting feel.
This [...]

Blowin’UpTryin’2BSomebody – free track

thanks for reading…there is a new free track on the website….BlowinUpTryin2BSomebody
I did it around the time of the Scale sessions but the final mix didn’t seem to fit inside the rest of the record…..rather than leave the puir wee soul orphaned – it’s here….I’ve made it available for download ….so freak your friends out with [...]