I composed and recorded this, with occasional vocal contributions from Mistress Chloe, in my study in Santa Rosa, California, in 2000 and 2001, It contains my poignant ode to my life-long companion and tormentor, depression — Falling Off the Face of the Earth — and Shelley Mitchell favourite Deepest Blue, which is also about despair, but rather perkier. Other highlights include Love Lumbered In, with the most salacious opening line in popular music history.
Demoes from the first 15 years of the new millennium, a few recorded in Wisconsin, and many others in my drafty garret in grotty Ramsgate, Kent. Twenty tracks, including The Thanet Trilogy and the classic The Nightmare of Xmas, along with The Hero and Whenever Julie Calls.
Wrenched forcefully from her comfort zone, the noted Essex jazz chanteuse Debden Clarke sang the hell out of these 2005 songs, including the Send In The Clowns-ish The Lovey. Also includes the exultant 11 Miles From Liverpool and lovely songs about bullying and stalking, not by the same person, and the heartbreaking I Married a Knobhead. Thirteen tracks!
Composed and recorded in New York's Hudson Valley. Actually, I wrote many of the lyrics while commuting between Manhattan and my home in Beacon. My Country Tortured may be my angriest and most eloquent political song. There's also a lot of antic Americana-ish stuff, and my celebrated Motown homage, This Supermodel.
On discovering that Mistress Chloe, supreme dominant goddess of all London, had a gloriously unusual voice and a remarkable knack for harmony, I insisted she record an album of my songs. The now-defunct Village Voice praised it avidly. So did the San Francisco Chronicle, which isn't yet defunct.
As good as The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society? It's no less wry, I don't think, and probably more melodic. Deep Roots magazine called it "the most compelling pop/rock album of 2017". Its 13 tracks include denunciations of Donald Trump, Christianity (as commonly practiced), and, in When God Invented Fucking, American puritanism. Vocals by the lovely Tom George and guitar by Darryll du Toit.
The swinging sound of southwest London, 2017! Featuring very recent compositions, as well as such blasts from the past as The Best Years of Our Lives and A Married Man, it inspired Iman Lababedi to note, "The Freudian Sluts are a lucky break away from breaking through". Featuring Darryll du Toit on guitar and videogenicity. Many lead vocals by Suz eQ, and guitar by Darryll du Toit.
The dark album, again lead-sung by Tom George and guitared by Darryll du Toit. Includes gorgeous songs about romantic despair and duplicity, and a poignant meditation on widowerhood, Table For One. The eminent UK singer and songwriter Damien Maddison has described After the Flood as beautiful, and you won't hear a more eloquent breakup song than A Ship That's Sailed.
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THE FICTION
Linked short stories from 1999, many of them being about the horros of high school, and the later horrors of married life, set in northern California's Wine Country.
Short stories from 2010 about life among the grey-ponytailed hippies in New York's Hudson Valley, where one commonly found himself behind Pete Seeger in line at the post office.
Written and directed in my little study 200 metres from the Thames. That of which I'm proudest is about my mother's descent into dementia. Many antic, many heartbreaking
A music biz and political satire inspired by the stories of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber, and by the proliferation of televised singing competitions. You'll laff 'til you stop! Or maybe cry.
A mediocre amateur guitarist one day to find himself as dexterous and dazzling as Jimi Hendrix. He comes quickly to long for his earlier, simpler life as a substitute teacher.
A young British actress notes Madonna's and Angelina Jolie's having adopted Third World orphans, and tries it herself, but with a child from the poorest part of America.
A detective novel set in the tawdry world of late-'80s Hollywood hair metal. I extrapolated from the tawdry world of early-'70s Hollywood glam, in which I was myself an eager participant.
My best work. About the brutality of children. Are bullies born or made? Buy this one first.