The latest album, Bridge of Angels, was released with Foghorn Records, Sydney, in 2020. It was inspired by a trip to Europe in 2018, particularly Rome, which is where the album title comes from, a famous Rome landmark. Rome was therefore the accidental epicentre of the work. The single, Red Velvet Chair, was released late 2019, and the 'flipside', On The Bridge (The First Spring Day), is an instrumental.

Bridge of Angles is a 'spiritual' album - light years away from my last long player, 2008's Fellow Traveller, which was very Australian-oriented.

The latest work was recorded mainly in Adelaide, South Australia, at Fat Trax Studios, after I moved from Sydney late in 2018.

It reflects our modern world in a time of crisis, peeling back the layers to get to the inner workings of our lives.

The songs: On The Bridge.. (a prelude - a crossroad, a juncture, a leap); The Loving Arms (those we love); Every Story Tells a Picture (the plague of overpopulation- 7.8 million people on the Earth and counting); Mirror of Love (love is the ultimate mirror); Red Velvet Chair (sometimes we must chill out); Streets of Rome (eyes are opened - through this city's ancient prism we glimpse ourselves); The Bolshie Swing (the dance/intermission); Face Without a Name (stare inside - ultimately we are all just one of the crowd); Fly Into the Sunrise (flying home); Star (inspiration - distant flame).

Although the work was conceived and recorded before the pandemic, many of its themes have since become acute. The actual bridge in Rome features 10 angel statues; I discovered that an 11th was added later by a pope who constructed it on the roof of the castle overlooking the bridge - to celebrate the end of a plague in Europe in the Middle Ages. Eerie.

The album is on all major streaming services and CDs at several record stores in Adelaide, South Australia (Big Star, Streetlight, Rock Therapy and Clarity).

Thanks to Foghorn and Fat Trax Studios in Adelaide; and to Dogstar Productions, NSW, for the good work on The Bolshie Swing.

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My prior single was Back to the Beach, recorded with Foghorn. We did the song in full band style. (The beach being an almost sacred place for many who live in coastal cities, especially where there is a surf culture).

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I was on Sydney's singer-songwriter circuit for a number of years, singing what I would broadly call folk/pop, and was signed to Foghorn Records in 2006, getting some songs onto several of their Home Grown Roots compilation albums (with Copperhead, Only A Grey Day, and Riley Street Lullaby). Riley Street is about 1920s Sydney "Mrs Bigs" Kate Leigh and Tilley Devine, which I wrote in 2006. Their story was subsequently turned into a TV series of Underbelly on Channel 9 in Australia. In 2014 I released another single through Foghorn, Things I've Seen.

In 2010-11 my song Wreck of the Ice Cream Van - a more pop number - and Sydney Looks Pretty in Blue were on the record company's Soundslike Cafe release which went to 2000 cafes in Australia.

All these tracks are online.

In 2008 I released my debut independent album, Fellow Traveller, which got a small distribution in Sydney and Melbourne. Some of the iTunes/Apple tracks mentioned above are on it. The album is described as: "youth meets age, black meets white, innocence meets experience - a roadtrip through the Australian psyche". Some of the tracks are on this website if you want to click on them. I've played at Peats Ridge, Ironfest, Port Noarlunga Blues, and Windsor Blues and Roots festivals.

email: volume8PR @ hotmail.com

Hope to see you at one of my gigs. Long live live music!

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