Adrian at 70th birthday gig with Murray (Face Furniture).

NEW ALBUM/BOOK by Adrian

FULL FATHOM FOLK
with FACE FURNITURE + EXTENSIONS

Available now from https://rosewoodpress.co.uk

New solo CD available, of all new songs; please use Contact page to request a copy. Title ‘King of Essex’ (not delusions of grandeur but title song about Anglo-Saxon ‘Prittlewell Prince’ who inspired a road protest).

FOLK POETRY In The Restrictions CD now available.KING OF ESSEX song CD now available. Use Contact page to request copies

The Buried Man, sample track from FOLK POETRY
I Still Hold You Dear, sample track from KING OF ESSEX

For current song activity, see SERVICES/ APPEARANCES

If you want to track down one of Adrian’s songs, send a message via CONTACT

Several collections of songs are available via this website, which will be listed in full, eventually!
These include albums
Discovering England
Comedy of Masculinity
Anarchy In the Ukelele
Out Of Love
Roadworks (this and above Out of Love albums originally released as double cassette album Hearts and Flyovers)

19991/2 or the end of the world review
Xmasphobia (with Chris Wager)

Plus Privately produced albums
Flightless Bird
Can’t Quite Stop Singing
English Primitive
Intimations
with more to be added, with some lyrics and audio tracks etc.

Past Songs of the Month

Demo of new song (with all faults) inspired by conversation with the great Pete Morton, Are These Not Slaves?

New song on the removal of lamppost beside my place on 18.2.24: Not Leaning on a Lamppost (author is aware of incorrect use of Zen and Existentialist). See photo.

When the Year Turns Round (Happy New Year song written in 1980s)
Solo Community Singing (possible title song for new solo album)

New song, Just Stop Dying!

Demo of Reluctant Royalist II

My Harmonica Rack or Holder – is a demo of a new song, inspired by chapter in new book project Boot Sale Harvest.

Historical ballad from agricultural depression, adapted from book Curiosities of Essex (1984) by historian Dave Occomore.

Christmas Postman; about my late brother Jonathan.

The Wedding Song

Fish Street

A Sad Time

February 2021

Community Singing

December 2020

St Edmund Carol – new song for the season with good wishes.

March 2020

Cast Your Bread: poem inspired by Ecclesiastes book 11

February 2020

Folkies with Degrees: A brand new song in reaction to doing support at a current folk club.

January 2020

Getting Older from English Primitive CD album 2012, with Dave Sibley on trombone; increasingly appropriate!

December 2019

Praise the Lord on Christmas Day (tune written by Herbert May, words by his son John, arranged and performed by John’s son Adrian).
Merlin’s Return – rediscovered home cassette recording from 1979 and 40 years later seems ahem prophetic …