An idea for a bass line popped into my head. That’s all this is, just an idea, nothing ambitious.

Bit dreamy and off my head after working nights. When I wrote this I did it singing in Ivor Cutler’s voice but when I tried to record it like that I discovered that I simply am not as good as he was at singing, so I had to change it back to my usual weedy voice.

I’m between night- shifts and I woke up too early so I’m good-for-nothing. Also, there’s been too much emotions and too much said on here lately. So let’s cool it down with a nice bit of anodyne ballet music.

If you’ve ever seen Peter Greenaway’s excellent Drowning By Numbers you’ll recognise the idea of enemies gathering under the water-tower. If you haven’t, you could think of it as a metaphor for bad Karma.

I wrote this track in bright sunshine, at midday. I recorded it hours later in the middle of the night. Weirdly I wrote it about someone else but listening now it could just as easily be about me!

Awwww. I didn’t hardly spend any time at all on yesterday’s one, so I’ve made a bit more of an effort today specially for you! I thought I’d write something about a subject which songwriters tend to ignore – how sad it is when you break up with someone. It’s called “Sad Night”.

I had the idea for this song because I was talking to myself yesterday, and I realised that it was quite a strange thing to be doing so I thought I’d see if I could work out who the voices were. It turned out there was one who was kind of like a nurse and one who was like a soldier in bed and then some who were like a greek chorus. I suppose that’s quite usual.

I usually aim to make these tracks two minutes long. This one is three minutes, you’ll hear why.

Back refreshed and sunburned I went to the music shop to buy strings and ended up buying my first ever guitar (I’ve been learning on a borrowed one). It’s from Canada and isn’t a semi-acoustic like I thought I wanted to get, just a boring old electric-acoustic.

Anyway, you know how you get one tune for free whenever you buy a new instrument? It just comes popping out when you sit down. Well, this is that.

This is my last tune for a week. Mike Campbell is going to be taking over the site for the next seven days while I’m on holiday. I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. Good luck Mike!

This track is an interlude, suitable for a scene change.

Yeah, I know. But I didn’t have any time at all to do this, and I still wanted to do it, so I just stood there and tried to play it and sing at the same time.

(Oh dear. When I listened back to this track today it didn’t sound anything like I had imagined it, so I’ve recorded it again!)