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You know nothing
Slower than normal, this one. I wrote it over a year ago and have only just got round to finishing it off. There are a few lyrics from the Jim'll fix it theme tune in. Can you spot them?
How many tonights?
In this song I answer the question "How many "TONIGHT"s does it take to make a 2 minute rock song? I insist you find out.
Just how important is length anyway?
Don't be scared. It's only a minute long. Enjoy. 
Re-record, don't fade away
In May 2008, Computer Music magazine reviewed Vitamin D and pro producer Mark Frith gave us a whole load of "positive feedback".
We took all of it on board and went about re-recording everything. Now re-mixed
and professionally mastered, Vitamin D is BACK. Listen out for the new ending. Our aforementioned reviewer said the original ended with a 'gasp/whimper'. Duly noted. Prepared to be rocked. 
The frown song This is a cover of a song by Ben Folds from his album Back to normal. Some of his stuff is pretty good and a couple of weeks ago I saw that he was touring in the UK in February so I bought tickets and then started to see if I could play one of his songs.... got a bit carried away... and this is what it turned into. Hope you enjoy.
All aboard the Bryan Ferry Robot Hankinshaw covers Roxy Music's Editions of you.
That's grasshopper. Grasshopper..... This is our tribute to York's best rockin blues band The Blueflies.
The song is Treacherous Kicks. Have a listen to our humble little offering here. But to fully appreciate this song you need to listen to the original with the classic video the boys made. Apparently, it was made with nowt but chicken wire, milk bottles and sticky back plastic. (They hired the champagne bottle.) Marvel in its glory here.
I don't mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips. That's a quote from the man who my next
song is about: David Hemmings. Most people who knew him as the handsome leading man from "Blow-Up" didn't recognize him as the stocky character actor from the films
he was in later in his career. He was a professional singer by the age of 9, sang for Benjamin Britten in Turn of the Screw, a part Britten wrote specifically for him.
And more importantly, he was the bad guy in Airwolf.
But why quote from the Internet Movie Database when you can read all about the great man yourself here. Or just listen to the song here.
Nearing December Nice. Nearly Christmas and
I'm racing through the songs I listed in my last update. Well, I've actually finished one that's not on the list, but I've still finished it - so that must count for somthing.
It does mean that I've still got all of the others to finish/start. In time people, in time.
Click on Audio above to listen to my new song. It's called "The great ones remember" and is a cover of 80's one hit wonders Men Without Hats.
Finish what you start There are loads of songs that
I've written which are only 80% complete. In some kind of an effort to spur me into completing them, I'm going to list them below and hopefully I'll feel
shamed into finishing them.Smoochin the ladies Beaches Save my life Untitled Rock song #1 Untitled Rock song #2 Untitled Synthy song #1 Rotating David Hemmings Hello Stranger Nine of them. Huh. Didn't realise there were so many. Well! I've just finished Smoochin the ladies (an anecdote from my dim and distant past turned into song) and I've uploaded it to the Audio page. Click above to have a listen. Right. What's next?
To cut a long story short I've uploaded a couple of new
songs for your pleasure. Can you hear me? and, Bacon Sandwich. One is an exploration into communication, the other is about a bacon sandwich. Click on
Audio to have a listen.
Happy Hankinshaw Last week saw the arrival of
both the new AC/DC album
and the new Electric Six album 'Flashy' ... on the same day!!! This makes for a very happy Hankinshaw.  Here's a taster of a track from the E6 album. It's called Heavy woman :
Bleed me Everywhere you look nowadays
there is a picture of an economist with their head in their hands, reeling in despair. Some of them are wide-eyed and pointing. My new song 'Bleed me'
has nothing to do with the world's current global economic crisis (tm), it's just y'standard rock song. With perhaps a minor subliminal message of
thrifty spending. So I ask for no money, just three minutes of your time. And remember, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!
Special offer!! To celebrate the launch
of this new easier-to-update-site, I'm
pleased to announce a special musical offer! After
many hours of hard work I am delighted to present
two cover versions; Hey Venus by That Petrol
Emotion, and I Took Your Name by R.E.M. So
pleased with the way they have turned
out, I'll be throwing in ABSOLUTELY FREE
a cover of Psycho Killer by Talking Heads.
Virtually every band on this gentle earth at some
point has done this song. I thought it was about
time RH did it too.Enjoy. (offer only while stocks last) |
