the right notes, necessarily in the right order
Most of my music is available on Bandcamp, or you can listen to my latest EP through this mini player.
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Space Weather
What if the Met Office released names every year for storms in space? What would you name them after? This is prompted by a discussion on the Faith & Geekery Discord server, following the annual naming of the storms for the coming year. The Met Office rotates the home language of storm names, and excludes…
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![Half-Life [parody]](https://www.notejuste.com/not/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Slide14.png)
Half-Life [parody]
I’ve been having a bit of fun with as parody of Blur’s famous track Parklife. Mrs C and I were talking about how good a parody would be if someone did it, and then I found a few online. But I fancied a go at writing my own. Spurred on by the promise of impressing…
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Blue Skies choir
I’ve written a song, and I’d like you to sing it. Blue Skies is a simple song with two-part chorus. I wrote it because I fancied experimenting with call-and-response and wanted something my community choir could sing easily. You can listen to an outline recording on Soundcloud now: https://on.soundcloud.com/5w0A80PebinojrZTwo So now I want to record…
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Exhibiting Trains
I have a deep and abiding affection for railways. Since my first train set (when I was quite little) I’ve fancied having a layout and running trains. I also discovered last year that I enjoy modelling a little, and I’m taking the opportunity this summer to exhibit some of my trains at my local transport…
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The Trinity Song
I’ve finally got around to properly “publishing” The Trinity Song, eight years after the Trinity Sunday service that I wrote it for. It’s live now on Unified Praise, and you can watch a lyric video on my YouTube channel too. https://unifiedpraise.com/songs/579-the-trinity-song The song is registered with CCLI for use in church and you can download…
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12 Song Challenge
The 2025/26 season of 12 Song Challenge is drawing to a close. Every month since April I’ve been given a new challenge, along with 280 fellow writers, to bring a new song to life that is suitable for a church congregation. It’s a discipline I have found tricky to balance with the ebb and flow…
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Wagging Stick
Today was the first 2026 gig for Great Barr Brass, the remarkable community brass band I have the privilege to conduct. Once more we found ourselves at Aldridge Transport Museum for the afternoon, celebrating their running day by providing live music in their exhibition hall, and earning some lovely applause from the various transport enthusiasts…
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A far-off Whistle
Our railway is in the off season. A whistle in the distance is more likely a P-way kettle, fresh-brewed tea, a volunteer’s hard-earned salary. and if we dare risk it, a biscuit. We’re all tea rooms and no traction. But even so we have the miracle of steam, the regular metal clink as spoon stirs…
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Epiphany
I’m delighted to announce that after some positive field testing (my poor congregation!) I’ve decided to release the Wise Men Boogie. It’s a lovely variation on the 12-bar blues, and those irritating little songs where you add another line each time you go around from the top. And since it is the season, and it…
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Locomotive Heart
A check of the glass, a nod from the Fireman, and I eased the regulator wide open. Power flowed in perfect synchrony and we accelerated with a howl. A protest. Defiance against the night, against the rain that lashed the windows and ran rivulets across our flank, against every priest whose God never designed us to…
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Chasewater Railway
The new year dawns on fresh creativity. I have joined up to support my local preservation railway. Chasewater is a lovely line – a couple of miles of standard gauge colliery railway that runs regular services at weekends and midweek. There’s two brilliant little tea rooms, a G-scale layout and a shop, and some wonderful…
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So that was Christmas
What a rush! My Christmas season started early this year, with a stint at Chasewater Railway supporting their Hospital Santa Trains. A solid day of standing around freezing while singing carols, before retiring to the tea rooms to warm by the real fire! Then onwards to The Nativity, a wonderful production repeated from our premier…
let’s talk. I’ll buy the coffees.