1. "I Love The Festival Hall" well, I do. Bought cheap in their shop.
2. "Skulking Blackheath Morris Man" - personalised badge made for me by Mick the Pole, after I was caught skulking at the 40th Anniversary Ale.
3. "Kubus" Mysterious promotional badge given to me at the Turkish Food Centre, Lewisham.
4. Accidently detourned Paperchase badge that went through the wash and had the pattern completely erased
5. "I Love Hither Green" well I do. Handed to me at the Stapledon Road Christmas fayre.
6. Captain Scarlet "Spectrum" badge bought at a picture framing shop in Whitby.
7. One of a series of excellent "Viewmaster" badges obtained from eBay.
8. (upside down - sorry!) John Shuttleworth as Medusa badge, present from land_girl
9. "Home is where the record player is" brilliant gift from skitster
10. "I am 3" on a birthday card for Jack.
11. "hello sailor" saucy badge from National Maritime Museum
12. "Blackheath Morris Men 40th Anniversary Ale, 2009" what a weekend!
13. "Saddleworth Rushcart" 35th Year. My third. Fantastic time as always.
14. "Maybe Morris" Maybe Morris is a person, a one woman morris team I met on the Rose and Castle Weekend of Dance.
15. Enamel Stockholm badge, one of a series from the wonderful Mary Huey in Osaka, thanks!
16. "Good For Your Art" from Lewisham People's Day
17. Cartoon shark/bomb thing from a door-knocking charity collector
18. "My Turn to be Poorly" Bryan Appleyard badge from land_girl again, thanks!
19. "British Red Cross" unsolicited gift in the mail
20. Lewisham Street Found Badge 1.
21. Lewisham Street Found Badge 2.
22. Lewisham Street Found Badge 3.
23. Lewisham Street Found Badge 4.

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"Three Ings marks an end to a period of performing songs accompanying myself on laptop. The three songs were all originally composed and performed on the laptop over the last two years. For these recordings I overdubbed a succession of acoustic instruments - melodeon, accordion, whistle, percussion etc plus stringed instruments (banjo, guitar etc played by The Earliest Humans), before removing the original computer backing. This left the songs with strange intervals and phrasings that I enjoyed, I then re-recorded the vocals.

Although the instrumental arrangements may suggest folk music, they aren't.
"Quill" is a song about songs, and specifically about the Blues and its cheapening into a byword for musical conservatism, masculinity and emotionalism.
"Sunday Air" is a pop song about dancing in public- something I now do quite regularly.
"Told By Magnets" is a song about electric guitars and how they can still move me, and how they are the perfect vehicle for disenchantment and alienation.

Special thanks to Clive Pearman for engineering and putting up with my endless faffing about, The Earliest Humans for the stringed instruments, Scott Taylor for the expert mastering, and Pete Farrell (where are you now?) for suggesting the title "Told By Magnets", 30 odd years ago

Ending, Beginning, Remembering. As a small child I lived at 65 Ings Road, the remaining 62 will come later."

"Three Ings" is available now from Amazon.

It is released by Fat Ghost.