Archive For The “Shelf Life” Category

Free music: Shelf Life – ‘Best Before End’

By | August 28, 2011

  Best Before End by Shelf-Life 
This is the second of two free albums offered on this blog as part of the promotion of my recently launched new website. As with the Control K album, feel free to download the tracks, pass them around, remix…

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Shelf Life shot, at Rubber Soul

By | September 17, 2010

Some great pictures were taken at the Shelf Life show earlier this month by Björn Neumann, a regular at Rubber Soul as well as a very talented photographer.Either click on the above slideshow or here to view the full set. Video footage to come lat…

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Back from Japan

By | September 17, 2010

Yokohama scooter boyMy wife and I returned to the UK last Sunday from our trip to Japan – our first time back there in about two and a half years. I was thrilled to be back in the country again and the break from England was much needed. I was also ve…

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Shelf Life, live in Tokyo in 2010

By | August 25, 2010

Flyer by D1 DesignsI’m thrilled to announce that after two years since our last live show together, Shelf Life will finally be playing live again in less than 10 days. Back in the old haunt, we’ll be playing Rubber Soul again during my forthcoming trip…

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Archive clip: Shelf Life – ‘With Or Without You’

By | June 27, 2010

Getting back on track with the trawl through the archives for publishable content, I finally managed to get this one up over the weekend – Shelf Life’s cover of ‘With Or Without You’. The clip comes from 2005, and it’s quite hard to believe that that’s…

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REVIEWS // Noughties, But Nice (2010)

By | April 4, 2010

This review was initially slated to appear online at the beginning of the year. Other commitments got in the way and it got pushed back. I later started writing it for my general blog ‘Postings From An Edge’, but ended … Continue reading →

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Archive clip: Shelf Life – ‘Oh! Darling’

By | March 29, 2010

Here comes another video clip from the Shelf Life archive, this time a 2006 cover of The Beatles ‘Oh! Darling’, from ‘Abbey Road’. The quality is similar to the other archive clips I’ve been posting, but should be enough to hear how we did.We only play…

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LYRICS // Endgame (2007)

By | September 8, 2008

Back in 2004 and with the London march against the invasion of Iraq still fresh in my mind, I made an approach to UK music organisation Peace Not War (PNW), to offer them a track for their then pending ‘Volume … Continue reading →

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LYRICS // Second Hand Sunshine (2007)

By | August 30, 2008

‘Second Hand Sunshine’, a title that popped up one day in search of a song, was written as a global warming song. It’s not a subject that seems to have been tackled a great deal yet by songwriters, so it … Continue reading →

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LYRICS // Ghosts (2007)

By | August 10, 2008

I was born in Brighton, a seaside town on the South coast of England. Despite this beginning and several later visits to then-still-resident grandparents, I grew up getting to know an entirely different place – Cardiff, the city I got … Con…

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