Cool Air (acoustic demo)
This song began as a piano based co-write with Claire McBrien at the 2017 Glasgow Songwriting Festival when, for some reason, I was singing an octave up. The song has evolved a little bit since with an extra verse and a finger-picked accompaniment.
the mph songbook
mph (matt and phil holmes) is an ongoing songwriting and recording project. Startled Bee performs acoustic arrangements of songs from the mph song book as well as Startled Bee originals and the occasional cover.
- what you don’t want
- autobiography
- beautiful dreamers
- permutations
- golden tomorrow
- suzy skanx
- (just give me a) break
- when did u know (aka wendy)
- baby bee – also performed by Startled Bee
- monkey
- moving
- on the jetty – also performed by Startled Bee
- ballad / stronger man – also performed by Startled Bee
- bring it on
- rain – also performed by Startled Bee
- only so long – also performed by Startled Bee
- enjoy the experience
- can’t go back
- over the over
- clean lines
- teen beauty queen
- compromise
- the feelings
- cruel man
Zoetrope Animation
Created at a Look and Draw workshop. Twelve images were animated in an actual zoetrope. Here I’ve compiled the images into a GIF to reproduce, roughly, the effect.
It takes a while. I didn’t have time to put on the bee’s knees (or legs or feet).