Musical Diary – Nick's Website

Here is an incomplete list of tunes I have written. Most of them are part of “A Musical Diary”, which began on 12th December 1996.

Where available, I have also included recordings of the tunes.

Please feel free to play these tunes, perform them, use them how you want. Send me your comments, or recordings, and I will add them to the website.

I have registered some of the tunes (marked with an asterisk*) with PRS – if you perform them in public you should make a PRS declaration – via the venue (you don’t have to pay anything).

There a quite a few people referred to in these tunes – family, friends, musicians, morris dancers, pub landlords, bands, celebrities…thank you all!!

See the people!!

Tune number	Tune name	Image	Date	Recording
1	Cure of All Grief	Image	1980
2	The Sloe Gone Wrong	Image	1980
3	The Lady in the Boat	Image	1981
4	Mary’s Polka No. 1	Image	1983
5	Mary’s Polka No. 2	Image	1984
6	Nick’s Maggot	Image	July 1989	Play
7	Mary’s Tune	Image	June 1991
8	Gordon’s Tune	Image	October 1991
9	Adrian’s Tune	Image	October 1991
10	Steve’s Tune	Image	October 1991
11	Malcolm’s Tune	Image	November 1991
12	Lanlawren	Image	August 1992
13	Polperro	Image	August 1992
14	Hop House	Image	August 1992
15	Grist Mill	Image	August 1992
16	Lantic Bay	Image	August 1992
17	Up and Down	Image	1993
18	The Knife’s Edge	Image	1993
19	Clive’s Tune	Image	1993
20	Stream at the Bottom of the Garden	Image	May 1993	Play
21	Annie’s Tune	Image	June 1993
22	Skirmish	Image	1993
23	The Rock	Image	April 1994
24	It’s Only a Teapot	Image	May 1994
25	M25	Image	27th May 1994
26	17 Today	Image	June 1994
27	80 Today	Image	July 1994
28	The Highland Quickstep Plus	Image	31st October 1994
29	Nutcracker	Image	November 1994
30	Waltz 1	Image	November 1994
31	Boltonlaten	Image	June 24th 1995
32	Square Brackets	Image	December 12th 1996	Play
33	Jelly Beans	Image	January 6th 1997
34	No Prospects	Image	January 7th 1997	Play
35	Harry Enfield’s Waltz	Image	January 7th 1997	Play
36	Fifty Pence Piece	Image	January 7th 1997
37	A Little Bit Cool	Image	January 8th 1997	Play
38	Coming Back Again	Image	January 8th 1997
39	Carrot Cake	Image	January 10th 1997
40	Burning the Bear	Image	January 12th 1997	Play
41	Greedy	Image	January 14th 1997
42	Isaac’s Tune	Image	January 14th 1997
43	No Way	Image	January 14th 1997
44	String Quartet	Image	January 15th 1997	Play
45	8.03	Image	January 21th 1997
46	Standing Alone	Image	January 21st 1997	Play
47	St George’s Fields	Image	January 28th 1997	Play
48	Chirpy	Image	January 28th 1997
49	Should Have Done	Image	February 10th 1997
50	A Bit More To It – 1	Image	February 5th 1997
51	A Bit More To It – 2	Image	February 6th 1997
52	Run Away	Image	February 10th 1997
53	I’m Crying (But I Don’t Know Why)	Image	February 17th 1997
54	Lazy Jig	Image	March 9th 1997	Play
55	Mother’s Day	Image	March 9hth 1997
56	Just Remember	Image	March 22nd 1997
57	Crossword	Image	March 25th 1997	Play
58	East and West	Image	March 31st 1997
59	Apt Phrase	Image	March 30th 1997
60	Puzzled	Image	April 14th 1997
61	Horrible Eyes	Image	April 17th 1997
62	Lullaby	Image	April 17th 1997	Play
63	Manchester Waltz	Image	May 13th 1997
54	Tread Lightly	Image	May 22nd 1997
65	64 MB	Image	May 25th 1997
66	Never Again	Image	May 25th 1997	Play
67	Long Buckby Wedding March	Image	May 25th 1997
68	Who is This?	Image	May 25th 1997
69	Do You Prefer It?	Image	May 26th 1997
70	Raspberry Pot	Image	July 12th 1997
71	Rocking	Image	July 13th 1997	Play
72	Day Off	Image	July 18th 1997
73	Emily’s Tune	Image	July 19th 1997
74	Lois’s Tune	Image	July 19th 1997
75	Toronto	Image	July 19th 1997
76	Far Away	Image	July 22nd 1997
77	St Vicente	Image	July 23rd 1997	Play
78	Far Away 2	Image	July 25th 1997
79	English Channel	Image	July 25th 1997
80	Portland Bill	Image	July 25th 1997
81	Isle of Wight	Image	July 25th 1997
82	South Coast	Image	July 25th 1997
83	Beach Wedding	Image	August 8th 1997
84	Leaving Sidmouth	Image	August 9th 1997	Play
85	Lisa’s Jig	Image	August 9th 1997
86	Friday Morning Mail	Image	August 22nd 1997
87	Eyes Closed	Image	August 22nd 1997
88	I’ve Said Too Much Already	Image	September 17th 1997	Play
89	Whichever Way I Turn	Image	September 18th 1007	Play
90	The Kiss	Image	September 27th 1997
91	French Tune	Image	September 30th 1997
92	Smiling Faces	Image	October 9th 1997
93	Marsh House	Image	October 9th 1997
94	Shall I Shan’t I?	Image	October 10th 1997
95	Steady as She Goes	Image	October 11th 1997	Play
96	Weird	Image	October 19th 1997
97	Song of Hate	Image	October 19th 1997
98	The Lift	Image	October 20th 1997
99	Fleece	Image	October 20th 1997
100	Father Willis	Image	November 16th 1997	Play
101	Friday Night	Image	November 21st 1997
102	Dredging Up the Old Stuff	Image	November 21st 1997	Play
103	Thank You for My Birthday	Image	November 25th 1997	Play
104	Chatterboxes	Image	December 3rd 1997
105	Another Lullaby	Image	December 9th 1997
106	This Day Left Intentionally Blank	Image	December 11th 1997
107	Closing Down	Image	December 24th 1997
108	Don’t Bother	Image	December 24th 1997
109	Don’t Tread on the Baby	Image	December 25th 1997
110	IWHAF	Image	December 30th 1997
111	Curry House	Image	January 18th 1998
112	Wallace and Grommet are Dead	Image	February 21st 1998
113	How Many Words?	Image	February 28th 1998
114	Xantho-terpsichorean Interlude	Image	March 1st 1998
115	Talking to Me	Image	March 2nd 1998
116	Doing the Ironing	Image	March 8th 1998	Play
117	The Yorkshire Spaniard	Image	March 8th 1998
118	Riverhead Ned	Image	March 21st 1998	Play
119	Tap Tap Tap	Image	March 22nd 1998	Play
120	Trunkles Bledington	Image	March 25th 1998
121	A Year Ago	Image	March 26th 1998
122	Apples and Nutella	Image	April 6th 1998
123	1998 AD	Image	April 6th 1998
124	Millions of Oranges	Image	April 13th 1998
125	Last Waltz	Image	March 26th 1998
126	Royal Limb	Image	April 19th 1998
127	Little Black Stone	Image	May 17th 1998
128	LNF	Image	May 23rd 1998
129	Button Up My Big Mouth	Image	June 9th 1998	Play
130	Tree in the Window	Image	July 4th 1998
131	Move that Capo	Image	July 4th 1998
132	Holiday Song	Image	July 31st 1998
133	Standing by the Ocean	Image	August 3rd 1998
134	Radway 98	Image	August 5th 1998
135	Poppy	Image	August 5th 1998
136	No Photographs	Image	August 11th 1998
137	Boat Song	Image	August 16th 1998
138	Oliver	Image	August 16th 1998
139	Oily Sea	Image	August 16th 1998
140	It’s Not So Bad	Image	August 25th 1998
141	I’ll Tell You a Story	Image	September 18th 1998
142	7.15 On a Saturday Morning	Image	September 19th 1998
143	Song for Christina	Image	October 2nd 1998
144	Art’s Tune	Image	October 15th 1998	Play
145	New Focus	Image	October 15th 1998
146	There’s a Hole	Image	October 25th 1998	Play
147	On My Birthday	Image	November 25th 1998
148	Watt a Surprise	Image	November 27th 1998
149	Feast	Image	February 1st 1999	Play
150	Keep on Walking	Image	February 28th 1999
151	Step and Fetch Her Oddington	Image	March 13th 1999
152	No Problems	Image	March 16th 1999
153	That Smell	Image	March 17th 1999	Play
154	Nobody Knows	Image	March 20th 1999
155	I’m Nervouse	Image	April 18th 1999
156	Coming Home	Image	May 3rd 1999
157	Well I’ll Never Drink	Image	May 3rd 1999
158	Oh Jo	Image	May 11th 1999
159	The Fireplace	Image	July 2nd 1999	Play
160	Bee to the Honeypot	Image	July 2nd 1999	Play
161	Crinkley Head	Image	July 3rd 1999	Play
162	Never Heard of You	Image	July 4th 1999
163	Welcome to the World	Image	July 8th 1999	Play
164	I’m a Mile High	Image	July 23rd 1999
165	Ana-Maria	Image	July 27th 1999
166	September	Image	August 1999
167	Bump	Image	September 5th 1999
168	Light the Fire, Ron	Image	September 16th 1999
169	Size 8	Image	October 1st 1999
170	Untitled 1	Image	October 1st 1999
171	There Once Was a Person	Image	November 1999
172	Half Way There	Image	October 15th 1999
173	Morning from Hell	Image	November 6th 1999	Play
174	Burglar in the Night	Image	November 6th 1999	Play
175	Birthday Card	Image	November 24th 1999
176	Happy Jig	Image	November 25th 1999
177	Red	Image	November 25th 1999	Play
178	Anna Clough	Image	December 21st 1999
179	When Wednesday Comes	Image	January 4th 2000
180	Furry Collar	Image	March 2nd 2000	Play
181	Morris Dance III	Image	March 2nd 2000
182	Lynne’s Song	Image	April 21st 2000	Play
183	Anna’s On a Cloud	Image	May 19th 2000
184	I Wish I Were Invisible	Image	May 9th 2000
185	Please Do Not Put Your Rubbish	Image	October 30th 2000
186	Saturday	Image	March 11th 2000
187	Back to the 8.03	Image	May 31st 2000
188	Reflected in the Window	Image	May 31st 2000
189	Happy New Year to You	Image	January 1st 2001
190	Sleep Little Juliet	Image	2001
191	Forgotten Reel	Image	2001
192	Tiny Hands	Image	August 2000
193	You Only Want me for my Body	Image	August 2000
194	Not the Oyster Girl	Image	August 2000
195	Because Her Eyes Won’t Close	Image	April 20th 2001	Play
196	Tom’s Farewell to the Radway	Image	August 2000	Play
197	Holmfirth Jig	Image	May 12th 2001	Play
198	Deborah the Zebra	Image	July 7th 2002
199	Camera in my Head	Image	June 28th 2001
200	Hansi’s Birthday	Image	November 19th 2001
201	Mrs Rabbit Mrs Rabbit Will You Hop With Me?	Image	March 14th 2002	Play
202	Calling Song	Image	April 18th 2002
203	Nidderdale Anthem	Image	June 2002
204	Early Warning	Image	October 20th 2002	Play
205	Take a Hint	Image	September 2002
206	Around at the Weekend	Image	October 31st 2002
207	Two Tall Trees	Image	2002
208	Broken Ankle	Image	July 23rd 2003	Play
209	Watt a Surprise II	Image	July 6th 2003
210	Thank You for the Walking	Image	July 23rd 2003
211	Krankenhaus Song	Image	July 26th 2003
212	Varsovianna Flavour	Image	October 2003	Play
213	Isabel Fay (You’ve Got a Way)	Image	December 28th 2003
214	Hopalong	Image	September 17th 2003
215	Angel	Image	January 10th 2005
216	Offer Again	Image	February 22nd 2005
217	Absent Friends	Image	December 30th 2018
218	Dont Start Fartown	Image
219	Farewell to the Tap and Spile	Image
220	Mac’s Jig	Image	November 16th 2017
221	Mac’s March	Image	November 16th 2017
222	Mr West’s Lighthouse Tune	Image	August 27th 2016
223	New Straw Bear	Image	January 15th 2016
224	Old Bryony	Image	October 21st 2017
225	Ossett Beercart	Image	October 21st 2017
226	Sixty-Five Today	Image	January 27th 2018
227	Sliding Down Rainbows	Image	January 27th 2018
228	Tap Tap Tap Fartown	Image	January 27th 2018
229	Trunkles Fartown	Image	January 27th 2018
230	Tying the Knot	Image	May 29th 2014
231	Windy Corner	Image
232	Birthday Tune for Mary Humphreys	Image
233	Carol’s Waltz	Image	February 17th 2018
234	Murphy the Rather Elderly Cat	Image
235	Robin – A Dare!	Image
236	Close Your Eyes and Think of Something Nice	Image
237	Definition of Everything	Image	January 18th 2000
238	Trip to Ferrensby	Image
239	Trip to Grewelthorpe	Image
240	Bethany’s Waltz	Image	1st May 2018
241	New Playford	Image
242	Easter Sunday	Image	4th April 2021
243	Forty Forty Double Forty	Image	2020
244	Noel 2020	Image	December 2020
245	Still in Your Place	Image	1st November 2019
246	No Taste No Smell	Image	24th March 2020
247	Another Trip to Knaresborough	Image	6th July 2019
248	A Trip to Zurich	Image	5th July 2016
249	Sowerby Bridge, Sowerby Bridge (Where’s Stanley?)	Image	21st September 2019
250	Don’t Start (Fartown)	Image	2018
251	Dance On (Fartown)	Image	2018
252	Haigh Lane	Image	24th June 2006
253	Lizard Baby	Image
254	Lizard baby No. 2	Image
255	One For Andrew	Image	January 30th 2020
256	Ray’s Day	Image	10th July 2019
257	Sixty Today	Image
258	Twins in Gemini	Image	17th September 2011
259	Fartown Calling On Song	Image	2020
260	Shepley Festival	Image	22nd May 2021
261	Birthday 09	Image	25th November 2009
262	Tune from 2002	Image	2002
263	Enigma	Image	September 19th 2008
264	Never Got Back	Image	September 19th 2008
265	Untitled Hornpipe	Image	2003
266	I Wish	Image	November 26th 2007
267	Number 219	Image	2010
268	Paecs	Image
269	Brown Boots	Image	April 24th 2020
270	Mr Gumpy I	Image	2006
271	Mr Gumpy II	Image
272	Les Gorges d’Alsace	Image
273	60 Today II	Image
274	60 Today I	Image
275	New Log Cabin	Image	October 25th2008
276	Goo	Image	September 25th 2006
277	No. 1	Image	january 1st 2018
278	No. 2	Image	January 2nd 2018
279	No. 3	Image	January 3rd 2018
280	No. 4	Image	January 4th 2018
281	No. 5	Image	January 5th 2018
282	No. 6	Image	January 6th 2018
283	Trollers Gill	Image	May 25th 2021
284	Forty, Forty, Double Forty	Image	May 25th 2021
285	English Rebellion	Image	April 3rd 2004
286	Sixty Today II	Image	February 20th 2008
287	A Trip to Birmingham	Image	August 28th 2013
288	Back at the Sportsmans	Image	September 16th 2020
289	Tune a Day No. 2 – Not the Sloe	Image	June 1st 2012
290	Tom’s Wedding	Image	November 1st 2013
291	Tune a Day No. 1 – Spring Waltz	Image	May 31st 2012
292	Tune a Day No. 3	Image	June 2nd 2012
293	Berwick House	Image	August 6th 2021