Airtight 25 – Released on Wednesday July 16th. The new studio recordings of Train Song, Macca and Tell Me Everything from the session at Airtight Studios Manchester (July 8th 2025). Featuring Peter O’Hare on guitars, bass and backing vocals. Available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms.
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Future Trends, Past Tense is a new collection of 10 songs that explore the relationship between our future and past.
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Before The Event
No words for the start of 2026. I was reading about the destruction of Pompeii, because I am off to see Marillion there in the summer (yippee!). It struck me that one day life is normal but then it can change in an instant. It somehow feels that is where we are all sitting at…
The Flood
Song Week 2025 – Week 52: TThis a song partly about a historical flood in my locality, part about a feeling of being trapped in a disturbing dream and finally, about saying goodbye.
Mr President
Song Week 2025 – Week 46: This started life as a wordplay using names of US presidents but it turned into a commentary on he whose name I won’t mention. Principally because he has decided to attack the BBC, which is very precious to me. A global TV station that is owned by taxpayers and…
The first songs I really recall clearly are Telstar by the Tornados in 1962 and my introduction to The Beatles ‘She Loves You’ in 1963. Since then I have been in love with music, especially on the spectrum between pop-rock and progressive music. My head has been full of songs and lyrics for a whole lifetime but being unable to play an instrument there was no way for these to get out. Then in my early sixties I started to learn keyboard with the help of my tutor Peter O’Hare. With the aid of my home studio and recording tech, the songs are now finding a way out (along with accompanying videos). I write in the space between rock, pop, alternative and folk genres.
This site is a record of that learning journey, starting in 2018. It’s a diary of the things I see, read and feel, captured in words and music.
In February 2021 I entered my song ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’ for the Talent is Timeless song competition and in April of that year I joined the online songwriters group ‘Song a Week’. I have been writing songs and making creative music videos since then.
I hit my target of writing 100 songs in 100 weeks by February 2023.
You can listen to my music on streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Audiomack (amongst others). In late 2024 I consolidated the best of my pop-rock songs on an album called ‘Retropop’ and my darker material onto ‘The Dark Side of the Earth’. You can purchase these on iTunes.
Bernard
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