Sweeping the Nation, fine music blog full of facts and thoughts, is FIVE YEARS OLD! To celebrate, they’ve invited various musical friends to contribute cover versions. I was only too happy to oblige.

Click here to get at my version of Hefner’s ‘Alan Bean’!

So, February is over and I’ve got a bunch of new songs. Once they’ve been tidied up a bit, remixed, sorted, artworked and filtered there will be a new album called ‘Cosmic String’ for all to enjoy. Until then, you can hear the songs as they currently sound by going to my FAWM profile page.

Here’s ‘Driving Alongside a Train’, one of my favourites from the month.

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I also have a song featured on ‘Show Me A Word That Rhymes With Pavement’, which is an excellent Pavement tribute album. I did ‘Zurich is Stained’ and I’m colossally proud of it. The other tracks are all great too – in fact you could say that they’re gold sounds!!!!

It is FREE.

The CRY ME A RIVER PROJECT continues apace! This is the 2009 version, and it is noisy.

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Download it here, and add it to your swelling collection.

For some reason, after recording my second cover of Cry Me A River last year, and before playing it live twice, but after playing it live with a band in the olden days, but before now, I said “out loud” that I would record a new version every year until I died. A mysterious naked man reminded me of this recently, and I was thus forced into doing this:

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Imagine how much better this would be if I was good at singing. Please.