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!!
Tune number | Tune name | Image | Date | Recording |
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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 |