Everyone Gets to Play
This song was written some time back, but had no bridge, which I felt it needed. As sometimes happens in songwriting, the song sat in one of my song writing books and when playing through it one day, the bridge came to me and so it was back to the recording of the song and… Continue reading Wandering Life
I wrote this piece of music after hearing a student at school play a jazz piece. I thought, if they can write a jazz type piece, could I? It was not as simple as I thought, however, I have grown up with plenty of jazzy music being played at home, so it is not like… Continue reading Late Night Musings
Here is the studio version of ‘This is You (Bethany’s Song)’. As I said on the live version, I wrote this for Bethany a while back, but wanted to do the song justice by having other musos play on it. On this version, Simon is playing bass, Ian is on acoustic guitar, I am playing… Continue reading This is you (Bethany’s song) – Studio version
I woke up one Sunday morning at the end of last year and felt that I really needed to write a song for my son, Andrew. It was one of those moments where the words literally plopped onto the page. There were a whole lot of images and ideas that surrounded the writing of this… Continue reading Cross the Line (Andrew’s Song)
Before we recorded ‘Calling’ live, I did a quick rough version so everyone knew how the song went. This is the result. A simple acoustic version. I prefer the live version simply because I love being part of worshiping together with others and God being present. I normally do this in a dropped D tuning.… Continue reading Calling – Rough studio version
This is the live version of Calling. The song expresses the thought of Jesus calling us to Himself. The other thought expressed is one of falling into Jesus. When we let go of everything we hold onto, that we think makes us who we are, then we will find ourselves in the arms of Jesus… Continue reading Calling – live version
Several years ago I read Philip Yancey’s book ‘Rumours of Another World’. It led me to thinking about the stories we have heard, which have passed down through the generations about God’s very particular involvement in our world and the stories about another world, or a different place where there is no pain, tears or… Continue reading Rumours of Another World
I wrote this song some time ago but had never really finished writing it. As we started doing the rumours events, I thought I would finish it off and use it in our worship, which happened during the November rumours event. It is a simple song about God’s faithfulness, grace and love which He gives… Continue reading Time and time again
I wrote this song a while ago for a musical, for which I wrote the music. I loved the song so much that I wanted to use it in other contexts. Originally two girls sang the song as an expression of their friendship towards each other. However, I have come to realize that the friend… Continue reading Friend (Cheryl’s Song)
This is the studio version of You Alone. Ian is on electric and acoustic guitar, Simon on bass and Tanya (me) on keys, vocals and drums (I always wanted to be a drummer and play in time), compliments of Garage Band. I started recording it some time back and just needed the guits and bass… Continue reading You alone – studio version
