I’m busy working upon my new project, it’s the follow-up to my YouTube video “Drive some more down the A34”.
As you may remember, I performed the song live on the Breakfast Show of the local radio station (BBC Radio Stoke). At the end of the interview I was asked what song I would be recording next and I mentioned that it could be a song with a Stoke-on-Trent twist. Therefore I’m in the midst of recording a medley of the parodies of three popular songs which I have entitled “The Potteries Songbook”.
If this project were to really take off, then I had the idea of designing a cover for a possible CD. I thought of including some line drawings of myself playing the ukulele and a bottle oven with some musical smoke. However it probably won’t get this far but at least I had some fun drawing the design. By the way, you may have noticed it’s called “The Potteries Songbook Volume One”. That’s just in case it gets really popular and I decide to produce Volume Two next year.
Meanwhile it’s back to recording the songs, getting some friends together to add the lead guitar and percussion tracks and then finally doing the filming. There’s no timescale for this project as it’s more of a hobby but I expect it’ll be finished sometime this summer.