Christmas 2003 was ace. I wrote a song about Christmas and asked my friend Robbie if he could come and record it. He ended up writing his own song about Christmas and recording that straight away. We put the two tracks together and released a split single/audio Christmas card:
It was the release that started Time Travel Opps. 100 copies with hand-typed covers, and a picture of a robin. We gave them all away in the days running up to Christmas. A few went on mail order, but most went for free in the pub. We liked the idea of music being a token of Christmas cheer because…well…it is.
My new violinist Anthony Saunders spent the weekend at my house for a charity gig we were playing, and Sunday morning we were tinkering with new music…Anthony said he had wanted to write a Christmas song this year. I told him that I’d written one in 2003, so we figured out how to play it and made this video:
That’s the room the song was written in. I’ve moved out and back in since then. It’s a great house. I think most of my music is about it…or at least inspires me to do some of it. Anyway…Happy Merry Christmas. The original tracks are up on Bandcamp for you to download for free, or whatever sum you fancy paying:
