La Love
A one-off written around 1995 time. I especially like the lyric to this one - 'a love the teacher above chalked up with a big equals sign.' This song never made it on to my REEL TWO album of 2001 and so has never seen the light of day til now.

Red Shift
This is the last song Martin Smith and I worked on in the Grimm Doo 80s sessions. The lyric is poetic blotting paper soaking up the background radiation of 1985, as it seemed then. Of course, Red Shift is the phenomenon of light changing its spectrum due to its speed relative to the observer. Scientists call it the Doppler effect (hey I am not making this up, it’s true!). In down-to-earth terms the same thing happens when a fire engine passes you - the pitch of the sound drops as the sound makes a lower frequency going away from you than when it was coming toward you. Light does the same thing and by observing how light is shifted in frequency - scientists have determined that everything in the universe is rushing away from us at a crazy speed. And the more distant things are, the faster they seem to be travelling! Hmmm... It’s an interesting thing and the song has nothing to do with the science really, and more to do with the trepidous nature of man’s attempts to explain the cosmos and the pomposity of it all when he can’t even explain himself! Well at least the man writing the song couldn’t…  The chorus turned about the phrase: ‘Just making love on the Red Shift coming in.’ We live in an extraordinarily beautiful and awe-inspiring construction that swamps the imagination in its symmetry and vastness. The universe is to all intents and purposes, infinite, and to me a vessel of pure wonder. Just looking at it and my addiction to depression is healed