Thanks for all the comments on the “My Babe” video. It was recorded in a hotel on a UK tour with Tim Edey, from which I’ve just returned. We played some wonderful places, among them the Whitworth Centre in the delightfully-named village of Darley Dale, Derbeyshire. Sir Joseph Whitworth was one of the great Victorian engineers who standardised machine screw threads, among other things.
It seemed an appropriate place to perform my paean to that great enduring English institution, the Pub. I wrote this song about one in particular, the Old Neptune in Whitstable, Kent. You must visit sometime! (I recommend the Harveys ale).
It features looping, mic tapping, harmonica effects, beatboxing, and a mild type of Kiwi/English rap:
