So in case anyone’s interested, or there’s nothing better on the telly, here' s a quick explanation of our song writing ‘process’. ( Ha, Martin would  love reading our bumbling around with two guitars being called that!)

Martin was a lot of fun to work and write with, and we often ended up falling around laughing as we tried to pen something half decent!

Our unspoken agreement was that our songs in all cases, whether written collaboratively or separately, would be penned as McCaffrey/Major compositions and I have kept faithful to that agreement for these two albums because it still feels right to do so.

Anyway this ‘process’ would inevitably start with the famous utterance, ‘Mate, I’ve got a new one.’

In my case, that would often mean I had mostly got the whole song, but maybe less the lyrics which would be worked on later. Martin would then advise me in that wonderful blunt style of his, which parts were good, which parts were not needed,  and which parts were absolutely awful. This process  generally decided if the song was a ‘goer’ for further development. Some song ideas would led to Martin uttering his immortal comment of ‘Never EVER play that thing to me ever again’!

With Martin’s song ideas, it was generally rare for him to come along with a complete song to a session, it tended more to be part of something, half an idea, or sometimes even just a few chords. And as you will see, on one occasion on here he only had the title of the song!

But none of that really mattered, half an idea, a single line was a springboard to try to create something. And we were both generous with giving each other room to try things out, even the shocking ideas, and there were more than a few of them! 

In the end, we were just two lads trying to create something that gave our view out on the world, and we just hoped someone out there would like us enough to give us some money! 👍