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Brave Flag download single - 01 August 2022 Bill Nelson Singles Menu Future Past TRACKS: 01) Brave Flag 02) Mondo Bravado NOTES: This charity download single contains two guitar-based instrumental tracks. Upset by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nelson wanted to try and help out in some small way by recording these tracks and offering them for download with the hope that those who download them would contribute to the Ukrainian humanitarian charities appeal. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available as a free digital download on this page, or in the Free Downloads section ... please make a donation if you like the tracks!!! BILL'S THOUGHTS: "I'm sure you will all be aware of the illegal and brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces under the direction of Vladimir Putin. I've watched the situation unfold from its beginning with increasing horror. The Ukrainian people are suffering loss of life and homes due to the cruel onslaught of Russian missiles, shelling and bombing. There have also been gross atrocities and war crimes committed by Russian troops that will shock and disgust anyone with an ounce of decency. "I wanted to help, even if only in a small way, so have created a special single, the 'A Side' of which is titled 'Brave Flag' . The 'B Side' is titled 'Mondo Bravado' . Both tracks are instrumentals in the rock genre and feature epic guitars. The tracks come straight from my home studio and are in unmastered form. "I'm making the single available to fans for FREE as a digital download. All I ask in return is that everyone who downloads the free single should please donate a minimum of £5 to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukrainian humanitarian charities appeal. Every donation, no matter how small, will help to provide vital humanitarian relief for those in need in Ukraine. "Thank you for your generosity and compassion. Enjoy the single! " Singles Menu Future Past

Futurist Manifesto The Harvest Years 1974 - 1978 box set - 3 October 2012 Be Bop Deluxe Collections Menu Future Past TRACKS: CD1 Axe Victim 01) Axe Victim 02) Love Is Swift Arrows 03) Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus 04) Third Floor Heaven 05) Night Creatures 06) Rocket Cathedrals 07) Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape 08) Jets At Dawn 09) No Trains To Heaven 10) Darkness (L'immoraliste) Futurama 11) Stage Whispers 12) Love With The Madman 13) Maid In Heaven 14) Sister Seagull 15) Sound Track 16) Music In Dreamland 17) Jean Cocteau 18) Between The Worlds 19) Swan Song CD2 Futurama Bonus Tracks 01) Between The Worlds (Original Single Version) 02) Maid In Heaven (Live) Sunburst Finish 03) Fair Exchange 04) Heavenly Homes 05) Ships In The Night 06) Crying To The Sky 07) Sleep That Burns 08) Beauty Secrets 09) Life In The Air Age 10) Like An Old Blues 11) Crystal Gazing 12) Blazing Apostles Sunburst Finish Bonus Tracks 13) Shine 14) Speed Of The Wind 15) Blue As A Jewel 16) Ships In The Night (Single Edit) CD3 Modern Music 01) Orphans Of Babylon 02) Twilight Capers 03) Kiss Of Light 04) The Bird Charmers Destiny 05) The Gold At The End Of My Rainbow 06) Bring Back The Spark 07) Modern Music 08) Dancing In The Moonlight (All Alone) 09) Honeymoon On Mars 10) Lost In The Neon World 11) Dance Of The Uncle Sam Humanoids 12) Modern Music (Reprise) 13) Forbidden Lovers 14) Down On Terminal Street 15) Make The Music Magic Modern Music Bonus Tracks 16) Futurist Manifesto 17) Quest For The Harvest Of The Stars 18) Autosexual 19) Japan CD4 Drastic Plastic 01) Electrical Language 02) New Precision 03) New Mysteries 04) Surreal Estate 05) Love In Flames 06) Panic In The World 07) Dangerous Stranger 08) Superenigmatix 09) Visions Of Endless Hopes 10) Possession 11) Islands Of The Dead Drastic Plastic Bonus Tracks 12) Blimps 13) Lovers Are Mortal 14) Lights 15) Electrical Language (Single Edit) 16) Love In Flames (Single Edit) 17) Panic In The World (Single Edit) CD5 Bonus Tracks 01) The Saxophonist (Demo) 02) Visions Of Endless Hopes (Demo) 03) Blue As A Jewel (Demo) 04) Speed Of The Wind (Demo) 05) Possession (Rough Mix) 06) Maid In Heaven (Top Of The Pops Backing Track) 07) The Modern Music Suite (Live) 08) Forbidden Lovers (Live) 09) Down On Terminal Street (Live) 10) Swan Song (Live) 11) Heavenly Homes (Flashman Remix) NOTES: A 5CD box set which very nicely brings together remastered versions of all but three of the band's studio recordings issued in their lifetime. If that wasn't tempting enough in itself, then collectors were drawn to it by the inclusion of a disc of unreleased material and a few single edits including "Love in Flames" (which was presumably planned for 7" release but cancelled). The set was enhanced by a nicely illustrated booklet with sleeve notes on each album. Be Bop Deluxe's output had appeared previously of course (see Past Releases below), but this was the most comprehensive collection of their studio work to have appeared officially, and is unlikely to be surpassed or supplemented in future. Notable inclusions on this set are the previously unreleased live recordings from the tour that produced the Live! In The Air Age album (1977), including the full version of "Modern Music Suite" (which Nelson had to overdub to fix some missing parts), and "Swan Song" (appearing officially in its live version for the first time). "Forbidden Lovers" and "Terminal Street" are also included from the same recordings. In addition to this there are four demo recordings of songs written for Drastic Plastic , including the previously unheard track "The Saxophonist", alongside "Visions of Endless Hopes", "Blue as a Jewel", and "Speed of the Wind". The only downside is the omission of "Face in the Rain" (which remained exclusive to The Best of and the Rest of Be Bop Deluxe double album...at least until the Esoteric Recordings super-deluxe box sets included it several years later), and the "Teenage Archangel"/"Jets At Dawn" single (their 1973 debut 7"). PAST RELEASES: Nearly four of the five CDs that comprise the Futurist Manifesto box set had been previously released on CD when the Be Bop Deluxe back catalogue was reissued in 1990, which is where most of the 'bonus tracks' could most recently be found prior to this repackaging of their catalogue. See individual entries of those albums for full details including vinyl editions of the same material. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: This box set is now out of print. Collections Menu Future Past

Tuesday 31st January 2006 -- 10:30 am Last day of January 2006 and no diary entry since 20th December last year. Should I put this down to a Christmas/New Year letting go of the reins? Or is it simply the usual pre-occupation with all things creative? A lot of the former and quite a bit of the latter is the answer. The usual over-indulgences at Christmas and New year have taken their toll, as they always do. Last year's constant pace came to a halt as soon as the shops closed on Christmas Eve and I dropped my accumulated stress at the door along with the final bags of shopping. I'd eventually posted all my Christmas cards, found gifts for everyone, bought enough food to see us through to the New Year and stocked up on wine, mulled and otherwise, to keep the cold at bay. It wasn't a white Christmas but it snowed a little the day after Boxing Day, enough to make the landscape momentarily magical. Walking through York's Museum Gardens at twilight, snowflakes spinning in gentle orbit around the amber glow of the old street lamps, the river gleaming silver at the foot of the hill beneath an indigo and rose pink star studded sky, I felt a welcome sense of wonder. It didn't last, of course, the snow that is. Within a couple of days it was a brown muddy sludge that made everything seem grimy and forlorn. A sudden grey plunge into the annual January doldrums. For a few brief days though, it had been a hedonistic, friends and family centred celebration of, not just the season, but for me, the completion of a year's constant work, a year with hardly a breathing space between one project and another. Early in the year, I had worked hard on the design of the Dreamsville website, gathering visual material and bouncing ideas back and forth with David Graham until we got a look that suited the site's purpose. Then 'stage one' of Dreamsville was opened up to the world, generating a very positive response from all those who accessed it. Later, there was the release of the two Rosewood acoustic guitar instrumental albums. Again, artwork had to be created for them, once I'd completed the composition and recording of the music. (And yet another challenge for Dave and myself.) These two albums, particularly Rosewood Volume One, I found very satisfying to make. I'd wanted to create a set of acoustic flavoured instrumental compositions for several years but, somehow, had never got around to it until the Rosewood project. What really took me by surprise though was the next of the year's albums: 'The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill.' For some reason, I was gripped more tightly by the hand of the muse with this album than anything I'd done for a long time. It completely took over my life and I worked longer and harder on the composition, arrangement and recording of the songs than I would normally have thought wise. Nothing's ever perfect, of course, but this set of songs comes as close to being personally fulfilling than almost any other album of mine. I think the reason for this is to be found in my current state of mind, conditioned as it is by advancing age and thoughts of mortality. Not morbid thoughts, mind, just melancholy ones... At least some of the time. 'Sailor Bill' successfully captures a certain mood, something that could, I think, genuinely be called an indicator of the 'essence' of myself. It is, if I may be allowed the indulgence, a 'mature' statement. In three years I'll be sixty, (and how fast three years travels in this light-speed era of ours). But sixty, damn it! I can't really comprehend this, it's somehow beyond belief, staggering. My childhood seems only a few heartbeats away, its memories still vivid, its hopes and fears hardly changed. Nevertheless, the face in the mirror reminds me that young Billy has vanished with the passing clouds of time and now only grandfather William remains, hobbled and earthbound. And do I feel my age? Well, yes and no but increasingly yes. Aches and pains and other little annoyances, a brittle creakiness, an inevitable erosion of flexibility, physical or otherwise, a stealthy dulling of the senses, an increasing world weariness. Life as she is lived, with wear and tear an inevitable part of the living. Yet still a mystery and still a wonder...Snowflakes under gaslight, a river beneath the stars. As good a reason to make music as any, I suppose. What else occupied my energies last year? Have I forgotten? Already it seems to have become a blur. A lot achieved though, all told. Here are some of the other things that I found time for:- The recording of the limited edition 'Orpheus In Ultraland' fan convention album. The Nelsonica 05 fan convention project with its attendant preparations and programming of content. The 'Popular Music From Other Planets' concert tour around the U.K. And yes, of course...lots of new music and video was created for that. But even earlier last year, before the above, more live concerts: The Harold Budd tribute that I took part in that was held at Brighton's Dome. Fun with Harold and John Foxx, Jah Wobble, Theo Travis, Steve Jansen, Robin Guthrie and others...a lovely, memorable event. Then the Lewes Guitar Festival with more new material to perform. And some other bits and pieces that slip my thoughts at this moment. Too much time spent in my room though, hidden from the world. Whichever way I look at it, the last two years have been intensely creative. Maybe I should feel a much higher sense of achievement than I currently do? Here and now, at the end of January, there's the usual weight gain to contend with, the usual promise to myself that it will be easier come spring, that the return of outdoor weather will coax the bike from the shed and encourage some sort of exercise... What usually happens is the opposite of course. I end up trapped here in the studio, hypnotised by guitars and keyboards and computer screens whilst time accelerates around my wristwatch in dizzy circles. A little vortex of used-up life. Some progress already: A couple of days ago, I completed the task of checking through Paul Sutton-Reeves' book about my career, ('Music In Dreamland'). It's taken me most of January to get through it all as I felt that I should explain to Paul in some detail my observations and reasons for suggested amendments. Due to approximately 30,000 words being edited from Paul's original text by the publishers, I felt that there were places where a little re-clarification might help. I've left it entirely up to Paul to incorporate or ignore these suggestions as he sees fit but I'm hoping that the time I've spent typing out emails to him will prove valuable to the book's integrity. It has been a weird experience reading about my career in this way. I imagine it would be disconcerting for anyone who had been made the subject of such a book, but I found it particularly strange. Sometimes I don't recognise the person on the page and am not even sure that I want to. At other times it's like being caught with my clothes off in public. I'm too unguarded, too ready to explain the music away, this eagerness to please resulting in some invented 'on the spot' descriptions of what the songs are about when often, in truth, I don't really have a clue as to their meaning. Do songs have to mean anything? It seems that, most of the time, mine do. I can't find a suitable justification for this though and would be equally happy if they contained no meaning at all. Here's something I've learned over the years but still regularly ignore: An honest pop musician does not generate as much public 'mystique' as a dishonest one. (Or one that plays his cards close to his chest.) And in pop music, mystique is everything. This indicates two things to me. First of all, I'm not by nature a pop musician, despite once, many years ago, pretending to be so. Secondly: I'm more interested in unmasking the conceits of celebrity than perpetuating them. This, of course, is not a formula for a successful commercial career, nor is it an attitude welcomed by those who benefit from such jiggery-pokery. The cult of fame, that so captures the imagination of the 'general public', thrives on fake glamour and artfully manipulated image-mongering. People, it seems, prefer being hoodwinked to being liberated. Certainly my own experience backs that up. Whilst the majority of my own audience appears to be reasonably intelligent and sane, there have been, (and sometimes still are,) worrying exceptions. I've occasionally gotten into quite heated arguments with overzealous fans who have taken issue with the fact that the 'real' Bill Nelson doesn't quite fit the 'virtual' Bill Nelson of their dreams. In fact, one sure way to experience just how negatively the cult of celebrity affects the human mind is to enter the arena of popular music. No matter how modest the level of celebrity one attains, sooner or later comes encounters with people who will obsessively claim you as the spiritual centre of their own fragile lives. You will be unceremoniously crowned the tin-pot God of their tin-pot universe... And woe betide you should you ever seek to unburden them of their illusion. Hell hath no fury like a fantasist brought down to earth. How easy it must be to create a spurious religion with so many willing, potential disciples. But such unhealthy mystification is all part of the entertainment business and is accepted as its general currency. Entertainment over enlightenment? As Brian Eno said in a recent article, 'we're all entertained to death.' Or something like that. Anyway, back to the book. All said and done, (and taking the above into account), I enjoyed reading it and expect that fans will enjoy reading it even more. It's Paul Sutton-Reeves' first published book and the first published biography of my career. A cause for celebration or trepidation? Well, perhaps we're both nervous of its reception. Will I have to hide from old girlfriends and ex-wives? Will my children understand their father any more than they do now? Will my friends still talk to me or look at me as if I've escaped from some travelling freak show? (Or do they already see me in that way?) The problem with books is they exile our frail lives to cruel islands of print. They banish fleeting experience to the state of permanence. Books adopt a form that appears, on the surface, substantial. We invest the printed word with a faith that would do the Pope proud. Words on a computer screen can be made to vanish with the click of a mouse but that thick brick of a thing that sits on your bookshelf or coffee table in constant view..? Well, it can't be denied so easily. It can't be switched off by the removal of its electricity. Well...let's see what this thing unlocks when it's published. Maybe I'll have to leave the country. There was some sad news just after Christmas which I've already commented on in postings on the Dreamsville Inn Forum. Derek Bailey, pioneer free-music guitarist and someone who has proved constantly inspirational to me over many years, passed away on 25th December, 2005. This came as quite a shock. I knew he had suffered some illness in recent years but didn't realise quite how serious things were. Derek died from complications arising from motor neurone disease. I learned of his death a couple of days after it happened. Ironically, I'd finally completed Ben Watson's lengthy biography of Derek and the free-music scene on Christmas Eve. On Boxing day, when my son Elliot and daughter Elle came to the house for a seasonal dinner, the conversation got around to Derek and I played them some selections of his music. The following day, the news came that he'd gone. Perhaps many of my fans might be puzzled as to why Derek was so important or as to why I found his work inspirational. It could be argued that, in terms of form and intent, our approach to music was quite different. Derek's playing might be seen by some fans of mine as being too abstract, too confrontational, too fractured, too something or other, but certainly not comfortable listening. But these 'too whatevers' were exactly what atttracted me to his work. He appealed to the part of me that resists the herd mentality, that akward, stubborn, 'I know best' part of me that rudely and clumsily and some times stupidly resists compromise. His music also worked as a purely aesthetic artform, sound and gesture for its own sake, open to appreciation without it always being dependent upon the academic theories that surround much of free music's barbed history. There were threads, I might have argued, that connected Derek's music to Cage and Partch, though I'm sure he'd have considered these slender and quite possibly totally subjective. Webern seems to have come into his equation though, through his own admission. There was also humour and mischievousness, grace and fire in Derek's playing. In his hands, the guitar was elevated to gallery status, a legitimate instrument of art. He was, in my mind, astonishing, revolutionary, the one player who I hoped I might one day be given the pleasure and challenge of playing with. Too late now. Like Cage, like Partch, like Picasso and Pollock and all of Art's far scouts and secret agents, the world required only one Derek Bailey. To attempt to play like him, (and some people did and still do), would be a travesty. What he created was his and his alone, unique, absolutely essential and unrepeatable. The world of music was made more curious, more kinetic by his contribution to it. And that's an achievement. There's an eloquent and reasoned account of Derek Bailey's life in the latest issue of WIRE magazine, a piece written by David Toop, (who curated the Hayward Gallery's 'Sonic Boom' exhibition that I contributed some music to a few years ago). It's worth reading, especially as David had the opportunity to talk with Derek on numerous occasions over the years. It's as fine an introduction to the man and his music as possible within the restrictions of a slim magazine. Derek's own book , 'Improvisation' is an essential read too, even for musicians who aren't naturally sympathetic to the free-music cause. Yet another positive force...gone, gone, gone...but not yet forgotten. Whilst on the subject of books. Christmas brought me new ones, as it always does. They were added to the small mountain of books that have accumulated throughout last year and which pressure of work has denied me access. I've made a start, although my reading is still done at the end of the day in the minutes before sleep. Here are some of the titles stacked by my bedside:- 'Despite The System: Orson Welles Versus The Hollywood Studios' by Clinton Heylin. 'Lovesick Blues, The Life Of Hank Williams' by Paul Hemphill. 'Dylan Thomas, A New Life' by Andrew Lycett. 'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson. 'The Sea' by John Banville. 'The Spirit Of Place, Nine Neo-Romantic Artists And Their Times.' by Malcolm Yorke. 'Untold Stories' and 'Writing Home' by Alan Bennett. 'Audio Culture, Readings In Modern Music' by Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner. 'The Rise Of The Sixties' by Thomas Crow. 'The Making Of Modern Britain' by Jeremy Black. 'Surrealism In Britain' by Michel Remy. 'Lost Highway' by Peter Guralnick. 'Ted Hughes, The Life Of A Poet' by Elaine Feinstein. 'American Odyssey, The Letters and Journals Of Wilhelm Reich' edited by Mary Boyd Higgins. 'Fritz Lang, The Nature Of The Beast' by Patrick McGilligan. 'Bill Brandt, A Life' by Paul Delaney. Some of the above I made a start on earlier last year but because I was so busy I broke off reading them and need to begin again when time allows. I also was given some very welcome DVDs, the most special of which is a boxed set of a mammoth twelve and a half hour long film/series called simply 'JAZZ, A Film By Ken Burns.' I'd caught some of this when it was screened as a series on tv, quite a while ago now, but never got around to buying the DVD, partly due to its high price. However, Christmas presents are one of life's little luxuries and Emiko generously bought it for me as a surprise gift. Whilst some have said that Ken Burns' view of Jazz history is a particularly selective one, for me the film is beautifully put together. I could watch it over and over again...it's uplifting, inspiring and heartfelt. Watching it is a wonderful way to unwind at the end of the day, the film's music and musicians providing a poetic reminder of why some of us became so besotted with music in the first place. It's the kind of programme that makes me feel proud to be part of a tremendous chain of musicians stretching back through history, meagre though my own contribution has been. Anyway, I'd recommend this fine piece of work to all music lovers, irrespective of whether Jazz rings their bell or not. If, after watching this film, the penny still hasn't dropped, then they're beyond redemption. In terms of musical listening, when I've found the time, (usually over dinner), I've been in a retro mood, albums by Ella Fitzgerald, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass. Also Bill Evans' 'Conversations With Myself' album and, (not exactly a 'retro' record), Bill Frisell's 'East-West' live album. There's a real sense of elegance, intelligence and sophistication in these jazz albums, qualities that seem to have gone missing in action amongst our current pop/rock luminaries. To listen to these classic recordings is to enter another world, a world, I have to say, in which I feel comfortably at home. So, what are my plans for this coming year? Well, the 'Music In Dreamland' book's obligations now discharged, the next thing on the agenda is the possibility of working with Russian musicians again. My old 'Nautilus Pompillius' friend Slava Butusov and his new band 'Jupiter.' Still awaiting budget conformation on this though. The next thing I'll need to do after this is to mix the Be Bop Deluxe Decca audition tapes. I'm hoping to make these available on my own 'Sonoluxe' label before very long. Current favourite title for this cd is 'Tomorrow The World.' (Which was the title of an early Be Bop Deluxe song but equally suggests the group's ambition back in those early days.) Also, I've been asked by EMI records to mix some later Be Bop Deluxe live album tracks, different takes from those that found their way onto the 'Live In The Air Age' album, but from the same tour, or so I'm presuming. These tracks will be part of EMI's proposed big Be Bop Box set which will contain just about everything the band ever recorded. This is due for release later this year. Then I must work on a new instrumental guitar album, volume two in the 'Painting With Guitars' series, (of which 'The Romance Of Sustain' was volume one). I've yet to choose the 'main' title for this album but it will contain versions of the more recent instrumental material that I've incorporated into my solo performances these last two years, tracks such as 'The Girl On The Fairground Waltzer,' 'Blue Amorini,' 'Blackpool Pleasure Beach And The Road To Enlightenment,' and 'Electric Milkcart Blues' amongst others. Also planned is an album of unreleased sketches and demos from my 1980's archives. The main focus of my attention will be a new vocal album, the next step on from 'Sailor Bill.' I want to take my time with this though and, bearing in mind the archive material already planned for release, I may not find time to complete a brand new album this year. We'll see... This year's fan convention, Nelsonica 06, is yet another project to deal with, and very soon too if it is to be ready for a proposed autumn event date. New venues to check out first. I have had an idea about including a sort of guitar 'masterclass' as part of the convention, a non-academically inclined one that will allow me to talk about aesthetic approaches to the instrument as well as technical ones. A special, limited edition CD will be required for the convention too, as is usual, and 'Snow Is Falling', a song which I featured in last year's tour, is definitely going to be one of the tracks on it. Live dates? Well...I have some ambitious plans but I'm not sure at this stage how practical they will be. As always, it's down to funding. And that's plenty to be getting on with, I think. Letters from Harold who is moving house, heart and head. A jolly note from Roger Eno too. Emails from Peter Coulombe and Chuck Bird with reference to a possible Nelsonica USA fan convention. They are starting to get results back from a survey to discover how many American fans would be interested in attending such a thing. I'm told it looks promising at the moment. If all goes to plan, it may be that there will be two Nelsonicas next year, one here in England and one in the States. Three new doors being fitted to the house due to weather damage. Awaiting quotations from decorators to repair all the exterior woodwork which will need doing once the new doors are fitted. One door has been hung today, ('though only undercoated at the moment). The other two were not quite the right fit so have been taken away to be adjusted and will be fitted next Monday I'm told. Elliot passed his driving test, first time! I'm pleased but now I've something extra to worry about. Part of being a parent, I suppose. My mother still worries about me when I'm out on the roads, even though I'm 57 years old and have been driving since the 1960's. (Why does that last sentence remind me of Alan Bennett?) Emiko has had one day a week cut from her schedule at the flower shop and is looking for a way to fill the financial gap. She's thinking about putting in some time at an old people's home as a carer. Whilst I'm sure that she'd be able to do this quite well, it seems a shame as her talent is really with flowers. Sometimes, I wish she had more ambition and would make more of her gifts but she says she's too old to do so. I think she's too easy going in some ways but, I love her as she is. She accepts the difficulties of being married to someone whose career is always up and down and insecure so I have nothing to complain about. I'm very lucky to have her share my life with me. Outside my window: grey, undistinguished January weather. Nothing much to uplift the spirits, just that typically flat, beginning of the year mood-dulling atmosphere. Roll on Spring and the saffron song of daffodils. Top of page William's Study (Diary Of A Hyperdreamer) January 2006 Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013

I Hear Electricity Bill Nelson download single - 18 December 2008 Singles Menu Future Past TRACKS: 1) I Hear Electricity 2) Kiss You Slowly NOTES: "I Hear Electricity" and "Kiss You Slowly" were initially issued together as a free two track digital single. The single was announced by Nelson in a post on the Dreamsville forum dated 10 December 2008, at which point the 'A' side was listed as "I Hear Electricity (The Panic In The World Universal Chord Shifter With Apache Overtones)", although the lengthy sub-title would not be used on the official release. At the time they first appeared, both songs were exclusive tracks, but each would feature on Nelson albums issued the following year, with "I Hear Electricity" featuring on Fancy Planets , and "Kiss You Slowly" on the Nelsonica release The Dream Transmission Pavilion (with the slightly altered title of "Kiss You Slow"). CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available as a free digital download on this page, or in the Free Downloads section . BILL'S THOUGHTS: "The single contains two brand new, recently recorded tracks, both featuring my vocals as well as guitars and other sounds. The 'A-side' has a rather long and strange title: "I Hear Electricity, (The Panic In The World Universal Chord Shifter With Apache Overtones)." "The 'B-side' is more modestly titled: "Kiss You Slow". The A-side is a surreal 'rocker' with typical twists and turns. It also contains an amusing musical 'in-joke'. At your Christmas party, this song is suitable for vertical dancing. The B-side is a moody, semi-ambient vocal ballad with a romantic lyric. After your Christmas party, this song is suitable for horizontal dancing. I think you'll enjoy it! And it's FREE! Merry Christmas, folks!" Singles Menu Future Past

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 William's Study (Diary Of A Hyperdreamer) December 2010 Jan May Jun Sep Nov Wednesday 1st December 2010 -- 4:00 pm Heavy snow and freezing cold weather these last few days, the coldest November on record apparently. We've hardly ventured out due to extremely poor driving conditions. Our narrow country lane escapes the attention of the council's snow ploughs or gritting trucks, and driving Emiko's small hatchback along it from our home to the main road has proved hazardous. Had to get to the village post office late on Monday afternoon and even turning the car around in the back garden was tricky. Snow almost up to axle depth and a ten minute scraping frenzy to get all the frozen white stuff off the car's windows. This sort of weather looks set to continue. Today, (Wednesday), we've had a continuous blizzard since early morning. Only now, at 1:35pm as I write, has the sky cleared a little and the snow stopped, but not for long, I expect. It must be costing us a small fortune to keep the heating on in the house and the freezing cold at bay. I need to find someone to come and sweep the chimney, and mend our damaged wood burning stove so that we can back up the central heating with something a little hotter and slightly less expensive. The sore throat that threatened to turn into a cold last weekend has finally morphed into the real deal. I was awake much of last night feeling miserable...runny nose and sneezing. Feeling tired and weak today. Hoping it is just a cold and won't turn into flu or some nasty virus or other. The main topic of this diary entry is, inevitably, this year's Nelsonica fan convention and its successful completion last weekend. A relief to be able to slow down a little these next few days. After a week of intense rehearsals and various other last minute scrambles and panics to get everything in place, Nelsonica 10 opened in a blaze of technicolour and stereo sound. From the reaction of attendees on the Dreamsville Forum, it seems that everyone had a wonderful time. For me, as always, the event brings with it a certain amount of trepidation. It's impossible for me to just kick back and enjoy it as I'm always concerned that there will be enough content to keep people entertained, and also that the live concert sections will be the best we can offer under the circumstances. (A large events room in a hotel isn't always the ideal location in which to perform highly amplified music!) Nevertheless...this year, we presented the biggest and most ambitious Nelsonica ever. Because 2010 marked the 10th anniversary of the convention, I'd decided that Nelsonica should be a little bit 'grander' than usual, hence the decision to hold it over two days instead of one and to include three concert performances, (solo, trio and 7-piece band), instead of just my usual solo set. But, as always when coming up with ideas several months before an event, turning them into some sort of reality is quite another thing. It's very easy to underestimate just how much work might be involved. And it turned out that there was a LOT of hard work involved with this one! Most people are probably unaware of the finer points of putting Nelsonica together. The routine usually goes like this: Early in the year, I play around with various Nelsonica concepts to try and come up with a theme and title for the year's event. This process could go on for several days or a few weeks, depending on how quickly I arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes, even if I think I've got it right, it's best to wait and let it 'settle' to see if it really sticks or suddenly feels inappropriate and vapourises. Once the concept and title is decided I begin to search through various archives for possible visual images that might be adapted to the theme. In this year's case, the source material was found by my 'Real Men With Rayguns' partner, David Graham who searched the internet for suitable visual starting points. These are then adapted, altered and tweaked, text added and so on. Dave and I pass the images back and forth and I'll comment, add or suggest things where necessary. It's a quite unpredictable process, sometimes it comes together immediately, sometimes we have to chip away at it more slowly. This year's visuals were, I think, relatively straightforward as the title was a little less ambiguous than some other Nelsonicas. Sometimes, interpreting the title requires lateral thinking, coming at it from odd angles. (A Day Trip To Wah-Wah Galaxy' being one example. 'Secret Club For Members Only' and 'The Experimental Time Travellers Ball' being others.) Happily, this years 'Circus' theme gave us a very direct reference point so the process wasn't too laboured and we were soon discussing a stream of circus-related images that captured the slightly 'eccentric' feel that I hoped the title would suggest. Dave and I work together on our computers via the internet so it's perhaps a little more time-consuming to get to the finishing line than if we were sitting together at a desk in a design studio...but, whatever the method, the results speak for themselves and we've developed a terrific working relationship. Dave is always open to making changes and understands my approach to visuals very sympathetically. Fairly early in the year, a meeting of the Nelsonica team and myself is arranged to work out a rough outline of what the event might include. This year, of course, I proposed the band concert plus Orchestra Futura trio and solo concerts and an expanded two day time scale. The special limited edition DVD, as well as the usual Nelsonica cd, were also part of the plan, as was the exhibition of some of my guitar collection and the inclusion of live-on-stage interviews. Then various tasks are allocated to team members. The live musical performances obviously are my main responsibility and I have to decide the content of these. Also, I have to create the Nelsonica album and original artwork for the auction, etc. Dave continues to provide visual counterpoint as the year progresses, adding flyers to the website and adapting our core designs to things such as posters and wall panels that will be used on the day. These are beautifully printed for us by team member Ian C and always look absolutely stunning when put in place at the event. The Nelsonica album then has to be written, recorded, mastered, designed and manufactured. The writing and recording can occupy a great deal of time, depending whether I'm happy with the material or not. Sometimes a good enough piece will emerge but it won't feel right in context with the other pieces...so it gets set aside and I begin again from scratch. Eventually, the convention album begins to take shape and Dave and I work together on the packaging design. Sometimes, the basic art for the album is in place before the album itself is completed. Often, the Nelsonica album simply 'mops up' any leftover tracks from the previous year's recordings, pieces that didn't quite fit on other album projects. But this year, the convention album was shaped around the event itself and therefore took longer to put together. (And, of course, before Nelsonica, I'd put together, and released, the 'Modern Moods For Mighty Atoms' album which did contain both 'left-over' material AND specially written material.) Also, as has now become traditional, a second, more 'major' album is created for simultaneous release alongside the Nelsonica one. This year it is the 'Fables And Dreamsongs' album. Again, the whole process of writing, recording, mastering, designing and manufacturing has to be gone through before we arrive at the end result. Sending off the finished master discs to the factory for manufacturing is overseen by Paul who acts as co-ordinator when it comes time to put the final album packages into physical production. Paul also took care of the pressing of this year's special DVD, (titled 'Picture House'), once I'd decided on its content and worked on the design with Dave. The key to the DVD artwork was a projector image which I'd adapted a few years back for possible use in my online diary or as a Dreamsville flyer. It had lain dormant but, whilst searching for a starting point, I'd found it again and it shouted out to be used. I filtered the colour of the image, tricked in a beam of projection light and sent it over to Dave who then began to work on the 'framing' of the image and the fonts for the text. I then had to write appropriate sleeve notes and go through the video pieces themselves to find images that I could turn into still frames for the 'filmstrips' that appear as part of the package's artwork. Paul then created a DVD menu page and wrote the digital codes for accessing the individual pieces on the master disk. We then checked that this worked before committing the finalised master DVD to the pressing plant for manufacture. Whilst all of the above listed activities were going on, I simultaneously adjusted and polished volume one of my autobiography. This actually meant that I had to completely re-write several sections of it to make proper use of more recently discovered information, a quite complex, time-consuming task. I also searched through extensive family archives to choose and caption over 80 photographs to include in the finished book. The job of getting the book's digital files ready for the printer was undertaken by Martin Bostock. Martin and I liaised over a few final details regarding text styles, size and costs and print quality, etc. Then the printing process itself began. Eventually, a batch of 500 was delivered to Martin but, upon opening the boxes, it was discovered that all the books were 'warped.' Martin complained to the printers who initially tried to escape responsibility by claiming it was nothing to do with them. Eventually though, they agreed to reprint the book. After a week or so, a second batch of books arrived...with exactly the same problem as the first batch. Completely unacceptable. We then decided to try a different printing company. The first company was asked to take back all the warped copies. According to the second print company, the problem lay in the poor quality paper that the first company had used for the book's cover. They assured us they could do a better job. We were now getting extremely close to the convention deadline and there was a distinct possibility that the books might not be ready in time. Luckily, the new printing company was on the ball and the books did arrive just in time for Nelsonica and, thank goodness, were printed and manufactured to a much higher standard. But it was touch and go for a while, not to mention costly and time consuming. The musical preparations for the live performance had been taking shape. I'd chosen material for all three sets and spent several weeks creating new backing tracks for my solo set and the Orchestra Futura set. These tracks were eventually mastered over at Fairview with John Spence but, at the last minute, I abandoned most of them and substituted other tracks along with four brand new, totally improvised trio pieces. Yes, a fair amount of time was spent recording new backing tracks but, although many of them were ultimately abandoned, they definitely will not be wasted. I fully intend to use them on an album of instrumentals next year. The band set also went through a couple of revisions, as did my solo set but Nelsonica Ten eventually ended up with approx thirty three individual pieces of live music across the three performance sets. A lot of music to master over a relatively short rehearsal time. (5 days in total but maybe four in real time as equipment had to be transported to the rehearsal space, and set up, then dismantled and moved from rehearsal room to venue.) Choosing the right material is never an instant thing...it's a drawn-out, involved process. I need to consider such things as the flow of key signatures from one piece to the next, tempo pacing, changes of atmosphere and so on. Also, (most importantly), the technical practicality of each piece is of prime concern, particularly when choosing the vocal numbers. The pacing of songs with regard to my voice requires that I take on board the physical need to warm up my voice a little at a time. My vocal range has changed through the years and I sometimes struggle with the earlier songs which were written when I was a young man in my twenties. My current 'mature' vocal range is far more suited to recent recordings, rather than than those long-ago 'boyish' vocals of the 1970's. Still...despite all these concerns and time-consuming attention to detail, the event itself was very well received by those who attended it. The musicians who graciously worked with me did the music proud and I'm very grateful for their help and the care that they brought to the task. The Orchestra Futura set was, for me, sublime. I love the idea of having no fixed map or template. We simply launched ourselves off a cliff into an indeterminate sky and went wherever the breeze carried us. Trust, faith, belief, letting go...whatever you want to call it. This is what, for me, Orchestra Futura has at its core. Simply 'being' is its 'reason for being.' The 'Gentleman Rocketeers' set, by comparison, was built on less mysterious foundations: rock 'n' pop and leather trousers! Simply get into the role and play the part. Loud guitar music and a couple of romantic ballads. During the set, I glanced round at Steve and Jon on their respective keyboards and saw that all was good! Nick Dew, (Be Bop's original drummer), who graciously consented to occupy the Gentleman Rocketeer's drum chair, is a lovely man who has always accepted my musical restlessness and, thankfully, never harboured any resentment when I had to re-shape the original Be Bop Deluxe line-up to comply with EMI Records' pressure after the first album, back in the '70s. Anyway, we had a ball! Weather on Day One of the convention became atrocious by the end of the evening. Emiko and I had a difficult time driving home on Friday night. At one point, I imagined us having to abandon the car and being forced to walk the last few miles through the blizzard. Luckily, we made it home without any mishap, though my nerves were somewhat frayed. Day Two was more physically tiring. In fact I felt weary even before I arrived at the venue. (And somewhat late due to weather and traffic conditions.) However, there were moments during my solo set when I was genuinely comfortable with the music and, I think, managed to pull a few white rabbits out of my battered old top hat. I'd chosen some of my own favourite solo pieces and enjoyed playing them for the Nelsonica attendees. The non-musical aspects of the convention were very well received too. The live-on-stage-interviews with John Leckie, Nick Dew and myself seemed to entertain and amuse the audience wonderfully. Even the almost three-hour meet n' greet, where I attempt to autograph various items, went reasonably smoothly apart from a surreal moment when I noticed blood dripping onto the table I was using to sign autographs. At the final rehearsal I'd accidentally hit myself in the mouth with the edge of my Fender Stratocaster as I was slipping its strap over my head. On Friday morning, I noticed in the mirror that a blood-blister had formed on my upper lip. During Saturday's meet n' greet session, I must have caught the blister with my hand and burst it, hence the sudden flow of blood. I had to apologise to the people waiting in the queue and dash off to apply tissues and cold water until the bleeding stopped, then resume my place at the signing table. People must have wondered what on earth was going on. As always, many fans generously brought along little gifts for me, and sometimes not so little ones! I soon had a couple of carrier bags crammed with goodies. This aspect of the meet 'n' greet session certainly eases me through the three hours it usually takes to share a few words with everyone! At the end of the day, I gave my closing speech, thanking all those members of the team who had given so generously of their time and talents. Then, to my great surprise (and pleasure,) I was presented with a very special gift from a number of American fans, some of whom were in attendance and some who were not able to be there. The gift? An absolutely fantastic robot, constructed from a guitar amp, a vintage radio and various other bits n' pieces. I'm still overwhelmed by this most fabulous and imaginative act of generosity. Such a thoughtful, kind gesture. Pictures of 'Victor,' (as I've titled him, due to his head being an RCA Victor radio,) accompany this diary. Those kind American fans can be assured that he will always be treasured by myself. And he seems quite at home in our snow-bound house! I'd like to mention the names of the people who collaborated to have Victor brought into being for me: Dar Shelton, Dave Fordyce, Dean Campbell, Dennis a.k.a.Wonder Toy, Gary In Merryland, Michael Cardwell, Perry Weissberg, Peter Coulombe, Phil Watkins, Radium Girl, Robert Galisa, Robert (Robbot) Schaad, Stephen Weis (Chromiumlad,) and Walt Richmond. Thanks are due to Jon Wallinger too who conspired with the above to get Victor over to the UK from the 'States. A plaque on Victor's back says: 'Dear Bill, this bot is an emissary from the New World: an automaton built especially for you to remind you of all your friends in faraway places.' Fantastic! After the presentation of the robot, I was given another lovely gift from the team members...a huge framed panel containing all ten Nelsonica album discs above a big photograph of the entire Nelsonica team with Emiko and myself sitting at the centre. All the team have signed this piece for me and it's a wonderful souvenir of ten years of the event. I was deeply touched by this gift and, once again, will treasure it. I must also mention Andy Newlove who stood in for my usual guitar tech Pete Harwood who wasn't available. Andy took on this complicated job at short notice and acquitted himself, (and thereby myself,) magnificently. I have a mind-numbingly complex guitar processing system but Andy figured everything out just fine. Also, I owe my thanks to the skills of Ian Thorpe and John Spence who, between them, guided the sounds from the stage to the audience's ears by the magic of the mixing desk. Sonic Wizards! Also nice to see Mike Robinson of Eastwood Guitars who had kindly donated a guitar for the star prize draw. I'd decorated this with a 'Sailor Bill' theme...made it into a kind of art object. It was won by long-time fan Derek Walklate and I was very pleased for him! Another special thank you is due to Stuart Gray, Nelsonica's star auctioneer, who every year entertains the audience with a highly amusing routine. He seems to be as talented a stand-up comedian as he is an auctioneer! (Though, sadly, I usually miss most of his performance due to being locked into the long meet n' greet session.) Nelsonica also supports the 'Sara's Hope Foundation' charity and this year the auction raised just over £1,000 for that cause. (I've also recorded a new song for the Foundation which will soon be available to download in return for a donation to this very worthwhile charity.) There were so many other people behind the scenes, all of them contributing to the fabulous two days that made up Nelsonica 10. There's a great team spirit about the whole thing, no egos, no grandstanding, just a broad commitment to putting on a great show for everyone who attends. But...Whether I can summon up the energy to continue with this annual event is, at this current point in time, not exactly certain. I do need to take some sort of break, ('though this is looking less likely as the days roll by). One way or another, I hope to continue to keep up the pace. As always, we'll see... All for now though. My cold is definitely worsening since I began to write this diary entry...and the snow is still falling. Looks like we'll be holed up here at home for a few more days yet. Time for some mulled wine, I think. ***** The photographs accompanying this diary entry are as follows:- 1 and 2: Views from Bill's home's windows showing the surrounding snowy landscape. 3, 4, 5 and 6: Victor The Robot enjoying the snow outside his new home. Top of page Tuesday 7th December 2010 -- 9:00 pm Just a brief entry. The weather continues to be extremely cold. The snow that fell during the early part of last week has hardly shifted...just become frozen and hard. Our garden resembles an ice-age swamp. Beneath the snow are frozen pools of water from weeks ago, water than never seems to drain during the winter months. An unyieldingly deep layer of snow on top of this means that we can't move the car forward to turn it around to get out...so we are forced to reverse out of the drive onto the lane, which itself is like polished glass at the moment. The refuse collection truck didn't turn up last week and so household waste is piling up. We have managed an occasional postal delivery but the postman treads very gingerly down the path to our door. Although the main roads into town have been cleared, (sort of), many of the pavements in the town centre are dangerously icy and it is essential to take care whilst shopping. Having said that, I've hardly been out of the house this week due to being ill with the virus mentioned in my previous diary entry. Today, though, cabin fever got the better of me and, despite feeling cold, weak and miserable, I accompanied Emiko into town where we had lunch at The Guy Fawkes Inn. Emi has a floral workshop at the Flower Guild this evening so we're skipping dinner and will just have a late, light supper when she returns. Today is an anniversary. My father passed away on the 7th of December 1976, (which was also a Tuesday). I was touring America at the time and was trapped in a snow-bound New York when the sad news that he was fading fast was relayed to me. I cancelled the remaining tour dates and caught the first available flight back to the UK, but Dad died before I even boarded the 'plane. The flight home was terrible, so many dark thoughts going through my head. Dad's funeral was at the crematorium in Wakefield. There's a little shed-like room built onto the side of the crematorium that houses a book of Biblical proportions in which the names of the deceased are inscribed on pages bearing the appropriate date. On the 7th of December, every year, the book is open at my Dad's name, where it was originally inscribed, 34 years ago this year. My mother and I have often gone to the crematorium on December 7th to look at his name in the book and to leave a few flowers and a message in one of the tin vases that are affixed to the outer wall of the building. But, with the weather being so bad and my concern not to pass my cold virus on to my mother, we thought it best to give it a miss this year. Mum says it's not as if we don't think of him often. When I spoke with her on the 'phone this morning, she said she'd been looking at a photograph of him and remembering those long-ago days when life seemed more sweet. My father was a complex but wonderful man. He would sometimes scare the hell out of me but could also be the kindest, most generous person. And, after 34 years, I still miss him. Those readers of this diary who have obtained a copy of my book 'Painted From Memory: Volume One: Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood,' will know how important he was to me, and how fond of him I remain. And, always at this time of year, my childhood memories of magical Christmas Eve's and Mornings are inextricably tied up with my father's care and love. What conversations I would have with him now, if only he was still around. I've done very little since the conclusion of Nelsonica. Not out of any great desire to relax but simply because I've not had the energy due to being ill. There are two new albums awaiting further work, ('Model Village' and 'Lampdownlowland'), but I can't imagine I'll make much headway with those until New Year, what with Christmas and all. I guess one of the pressing tasks will be to think about the content of the 6 CD career retrospective compilation for Cherry Red Records' 'Esoteric' label. That will be a major project which will require a lot of focus and care. Our Christmas Tree is now up and lit. As are some of our indoor decorations and lights. The old place is looking quite festive already but I've yet to buy Christmas cards, let alone write and send them. This task seems to become more involved each year. I've already received at least three or four cards from friends though. I've been thinking about this year's fan convention and realised that there were more ladies present than ever before, (despite two regular female fans not being able to attend). I find the presence of women amongst the convention's attendees encouraging. The male-hormone-centric guitar hero thing needs to be balanced by a lighter, feminine component. It's been pointed out to me that my music isn't totally dependent on the guitar-slinger image that was once the main marketing focus for record companies. There's also the singer/songwriter aspect and the stylistic/visual element to consider. Truth is, I've always tried to balance the Yin and Yang in my work. Sensuality and delicacy are as important as power and energy. There's no dividing line, just a seamless flow, a constantly evolving play of polarities. In the early days of Be Bop Deluxe, there was a deliberate attempt to play around with gender stereotypes: partly to confuse, (or outrage), those whom I thought of as being conservative 'straights,' or partly to explore the theatrical possibilities of being in a band, or partly because, at that time, androgyny wasn't quite the commercial product it was destined to become. The glam bandwagon hadn't completely been hauled centre-stage so I could regard dressing up in my wife's clothes as a surreal, hip and fashionable act. Maybe it was the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times. There was definitely something in the air, something that many creative antennas picked up on and tried to articulate. I guess, being young and impressionable, I hadn't quite thrown off the influence of the sexy 'sixties, (ie: Jimi Hendrix's coy, guitar as cosmic phallus sexuality), or the mock 'n' roll pantomime decadence of David Bowie, etc. Oh, and I mustn't underestimate the discovery that by throwing a cloak of ambiguity around one's sexuality, (no matter how tongue-in-cheek), a kid from a Yorkshire council-house estate could morph into some kind of fantasy babe-magnet. Ok, I played it for laughs to some degree, but, well enough to conjure up some sort of rock n' roll romance in a life that was, in real terms, humdrum and wilting behind a local-government officer's desk. A genuine need to escape, as much as a predilection to escapisim, was the subliminal engine that drove my dreams. I was, remember, not so long out of art school and had absorbed all the then fashionable art-school trends, everything from Symbolist painting to Pop Art, Hockney, Fluxus, Warhol and beyond. And a ton of other stuff I've absorbed but long forgotten. It turned out that I was not entirely alone in being seduced by a plethora of exciting and, seemingly revolutionary new art movements, both high and low: A great number of influential (and now 'household name' status) rock musicians shook their booty at the shimmering, near-legendary Art School Balls that were once held across Great Britain in the mid 'sixties. Oh, my...you who were not there missed a wonderous thing! Of course, all of this is increasingly forgotten now, and hardly acknowledged at all by the current crop of young pop n' rockers...But, without all the energy, chaos, turmoil, uncertainty, optimism, exploration, deviance, faith, hope and disparity we post-war baby-boomers manifested, everything that we now call 'now' would be radically different. Check out the high street fashions when you venture out next...look at graphic design, advertising, listen to 'indie' bands, etc, etc. You'll hear the echoes, see the ripples, from a glimmering stone that was long ago thrown into our British cultural pond. Some of it resounds loudly and remains powerful...but most of it just serves to underline the lack of real imagination, the shallow puddle of post-post-modernist pop culture that bleats so ineffectually from the polite confines of our living rooms. Now, of course, the pose is everything. Always was, but once, for some reason, found itself blessed with special, extra features. The dream was anchored in oceanic depths. Well, that's me done for today. I'd stated that this would be brief. A short diary entry only in so much as it is written quickly...A flow of thought without locks and dams. ***** The images accompanying this diary entry are as follows:- 1: Bill and his father in Bridlington in the 1950's. 2: Bill's father and mother in the 1940's. 3: Bill's father with his saxophone, late 1940's. 4 and 5: Victor the robot takes charge in Bill's studio. Top of page

Dreamsville Staff A who's who of all things Nelsonic Bill Nelson The Boss Whip-cracking and keeping everyone in line! Jon Wallinger Webmaster After being involved with various Bill Nelson related projects for almost 30 years, Jon has been tasked with building, updating and maintaining the Dreamsville website and Bill's Bandcamp digital download site. He also coordinates Bill's CD manufacturing with Burning Shed. Please use the contact form to report any website issues. info@billnelson.com Martin Bostock Photography & Album Cover Design Nelsonica team member Martin is also Bill's first choice of photographer. His extensive work with Bill can be found throughout this website. He also works closely with Bill on the package design for his albums. www.martinbostock.co.uk John Spence Sound & Recording Engineer Based at Fairview Studios, John has been recording and CD mastering engineer for Bill's albums for many years, he is also sound engineer for Bill's live appearances. www.johnspencerecording.co.uk Ian Haydock Live Event Coordinator Ian has been a crucial part of the Nelsonica team for many years and is currently managing Bill's CD Launch Party Events. Eddie McSheffrey Nelsonica Team If you've got a Bill Nelson related question...Eddie will know! He knows stuff about the music of Bill Nelson that even Bill doesn't know. He has been involved with the Nelsonica team from the start and is the man you have to 'get past' at any live event, so pray he likes the look of you! 'Big' Dunc Noons Nelsonica Team Big Dunc has been involved with the Nelsonica team longer than anybody can remember, he could be found at any live event extracting money out of anyone who happens to wander too close to the merchandise stall. Sadly Duncan passed away in 2023 and is dearly missed by Bill and the Nelsonica team. Paul Gilby Sound On sound Paul's roles have included co-ordinating the CD manufacture of Bill's music, website maintenance and technical support, video projection at live events and he is a long standing member of the Nelsonica team. Tony Adamo Merchandise Tony looks after the merchandise stall at live events, he also has to look after Big Dunc to make sure he doesn't get up to any mischief. Andy Newlove Guitar Technician Andy has the task of preparing and maintaining Bill's guitars and on-stage equipment throughout his live shows...A task made trickier by the fact that Bill usually likes to use a different guitar for each track! Stephen Weis Designer For the last few years, the live event posters, tickets, badges etc. have been designed by Stephen. His fantastic design are now also gracing some of the official merchandise available in the Dreamsville Store. www.stephenweis.com John Fisher Assistant Web Designer After John spent 18 months building an extremely extensive downloadable Bill Nelson Discography & Guide, Bill thought it would be a fantastic idea if it could somehow be incorporated into the website. This was the catalyst that drove us to start from scratch with a new website and John's initial work produced the foundations for a new and improved discography, which can be found in the 'Music' section of Dreamsville. The Dreamsville design team would like to express a special word of thanks to John Goddard, who spent endless hours archiving Bill's fan magazines and also scanning hundreds of covers from his extensive collection of Bill's music for this website. The initial information featured in the Dreamsville Discography was pulled from Northern Dreamer - A guide to the music of Bill Nelson, created by John Fisher and Mick Winsford. Mick wrote the album notes, while John was responsible for gathering the other elements and construction. They would like to thank the following members of the Guide Team for their advice and technical assistance:- Above and beyond the call: Phil (Wadcorp) Jim (James Warner) Tom (Parsongs) Jon (The Mayor) Jeremy (Iron Man No. 28) John (Puzzleoyster) Eddie And the rest of the Guide Team, who assisted with the album suggestions:- Adam (Chimera Man) Andy (andygeorge) Bob (BobK) Bruce (Merikan1) Chris (Novemberman) Dave (sauropod) Ian (felixt1) Keith (Returningman) Mike (TheMikeN) Neill (neill _burgess) Peter Reg The foundation of the A-Z song list was compiled by:- Benny (The Bronxapostle)

Futurama Be Bop Deluxe album - May 1975 Albums Menu Future Past Purchase this box set Purchase this double CD TRACKS: 01) Stage Whispers 02) Love With The Madman 03) Maid In Heaven 04) Sister Seagull 05) Sound Track 06) Music In Dreamland 07) Jean Cocteau 08) Between The Worlds 09) Swan Song ALBUM NOTES: Futurama is the second album by Be Bop Deluxe, and was recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales during January and February 1975. Futurama featured a different set of musicians than the debut album, now with Charlie Tumahai on bass and backing vocals, and Simon Fox on drums. Nelson provided keyboards in addition to his usual guitar and vocal duties. Andy Clark (keyboards) would effectively join the band immediately after recording Futurama , and this line up would remain solid throughout the band's future life span. The album appeared on vinyl and cassette, and was promoted by the release of the single Maid in Heaven , backed with the non-album track "Lights". Once again commercial success was elusive although the band's profile was certainly higher than the previous year. Futurama would be another album largely discovered in the period after the band experienced their commercial breakthrough in 1976. Vinyl copies were released in a single sleeve and the record was housed in an inner sleeve bearing lyrics to all songs. When reissued on CD in (Feb) 1991, EMI elected to enhance the album by adding 3 bonus tracks, although they represent a mixed bag in the context of this album and the reissue programme as a whole. The original (withdrawn) single "Between the Worlds" was certainly an appropriate inclusion, but this was less so with the live version of "Maid in Heaven" taken from Live! In the Air Age and "Speed of the Wind", which would have been more at home on Drastic Plastic , it being a left over from those sessions. If you no longer kept your vinyl copy of Futurama , and require song lyrics, then this CD edition satisfies that need, and the informative sleeve notes penned by Kevin Cann provide useful context. For some reason copies of this CD ran dry soon after release, making it unavailable for approximately 5 years. In 1997 the album re-appeared on CD (with Harvest label design) allowing those who missed out on the 1991 release to fill a significant gap in their collection. In April 2017 Cherry Red and E soteric R ecordings, who from 2011 to 2018, had done so much to raise the profile of Bill Nelson's solo recordings from the period 1980 to 2002, acquired the rights to release the Be Bop Deluxe and Red Noise material issued between 1973 and 1979. While this resulted in the deletion of existing physical editions, Cherry Red kept Futurama on catalogue from 1 June 2017 via the usual download sites such as Amazon and iTunes while an expanded edition was prepared for a 2019 physical release. On 31 May 2019 Futurama therefore became the second Be Bop Deluxe album to be issued as a Deluxe Edition comprising 3 CDs and 1 DVD as follows: a freshly remastered version of the original album plus 2 bonus tracks. a 2019 stereo remix of the full album and 2 bonus tracks alongside 2 previously unreleased studio tracks. an album of BBC recordings including 7 unreleased live tracks from May 1975. the original album plus 3 bonus tracks presented in a 5.1 mix and 2 filmed performances, the previously released OGWT footage from July 1975 and a super rare promo video for Maid in Heaven that was made in 1975 but never shown on TV. The album is presented in a triple fold out digi-pack and contains a 68 page booklet with an essay penned by Bill Nelson, reminiscing about the recording of the album at Rockfield Studios, postcards of publicity photographs from the period and a reproduction of an advertising poster issued to record shops. A 2CD edition of the album is also being released at the same time as the Deluxe Edition featuring Discs 1 and 2 which will also replace the standard download edition. The full track listing for the Deluxe Edition is: Disc: 1 01) Stage Whispers 02) Love With The Madman 03) Maid In Heaven 04) Sister Seagull 05) Sound Track 06) Music In Dreamland 07) Jean Cocteau 08) Between The Worlds 09) Swan Song 10) Between The Worlds (Single Version) 11) Lights Disc: 2 01) Stage Whispers (New Stereo Mix) 02) Love With The Madman (New Stereo Mix) 03) Maid In Heaven (New Stereo Mix) 04) Sister Seagull (New Stereo Mix) 05) Sound Track (New Stereo Mix) 06) Music In Dreamland (New Stereo Mix) 07) Jean Cocteau (New Stereo Mix) 08) Between The Worlds (New Stereo Mix) 09) Swan Song (New Stereo Mix) 10) Between The Worlds (Single Version) (New Stereo Mix) 11) Lights (New Stereo Mix) 12) Music In Dreamland (Phonogram Studios Version) 13) Between The Worlds (Alternate Single Version) Disc: 3 01) Stage Whispers (BBC Session March 1975) 02) Sister Seagull (BBC Session March 1975) 03) Maid in Heaven (BBC Session March 1975) 04) Lights (BBC Session March 1975) 05) Stage Whispers (BBC in Concert May 1975, Previously Unreleased) 06) Third Floor Heaven (BBC in Concert May 1975, Previously Unreleased) 07) Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape (BBC in Concert May 1975 Previously unreleased) 08) Sister Seagull (BBC in Concert May 1975, Previously Unreleased) 09) Piece of Mine (BBC in Concert May 1975, Previously Unreleased) 10) Maid in Heaven (BBC in Concert May 1975, Previously Unreleased) 11) Axe Victim (BBC in Concert May 1975, Previously Unreleased) Disc: 4 01) Stage Whispers (5.1 Surround Mix) 02) Love With The Madman (5.1 Surround Mix) 03) Maid In Heaven (5.1 Surround Mix) 04) Sister Seagull (5.1 Surround Mix) 05) Sound Track (5.1 Surround Mix) 06) Music In Dreamland (5.1 Surround Mix) 07) Jean Cocteau (5.1 Surround Mix) 08) Between The Worlds (5.1 Surround Mix) 09) Swan Song (5.1 Surround Mix) 10) Between The Worlds (Single Version) (5.1 Surround Mix) 11) Lights (5.1 Surround Mix) 12) Music In Dreamland (Phonogram Studios Version) (5.1 Surround Mix) 13) Maid In Heaven (Old Grey Whistle Test) 14) Sister Seagull (Old Grey Whistle Test) 15) Maid In Heaven (Previously Unreleased Promo Video) PAST RELEASES: The original edition of Futurama was deleted sometime around 1979/80, but was reissued as a budget release in 1983 by EMI, as a double album combined with the band's debut album, Axe Victim . The 1991 CD edition was replaced in 1997 which ultimately went out of print with the transfer to rights to Cherry Red. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: The deluxe box set and the 2-CD set is available for purchase in the Dreamsville Store . BILL'S THOUGHTS: Bill Nelson compares Axe Victim to Futurama: " Axe Victim is a peculiar album, it hints at what was to come but really is just the sound of a band finding itself, an album of material which we'd almost abandoned. "That there was such a vast difference between that album and Futurama reveals a remarkable progression. Futurama was the first real Be Bop Deluxe album. Axe Victim is kind of a juvenile sophomore statement, a naive thing...nevertheless, there are hints at a more mature approach in some of Axe Victim' s songs. Unfortunately, "Jet Silver" and "Rocket Cathedrals" are not amongst them." _____ Bill Nelson comments on the 3-piece line up of Be Bop Deluxe: "The three piece Be Bop Deluxe actually toured in that form. I remember performing "Love With The Madman" live on stage whilst sitting at a Fender Rhodes electric piano. I'd written many of the Futurama songs on an old ex-chapel upright piano I had at my little terrace house at Anderson Street in Wakefield, rather than on guitar, so it eventually seemed sensible to add a keyboard player to the line-up. Andy was the only keyboard player who passed the audition, (although separating him from the hippie-style Afghan coat he wore and getting him into something a wee bit more stylish was not an easy task!" _____ Bill Nelson comments on internet pictures of his home at 27 Anderson Street, Wakefield: "It's interesting to see those interior pics after all these years...quite a few changes/modifications since I left there in the early '70s. The bathroom wasn't in the main part of the house back then, but in an extension behind the kitchen. Seems the bathroom's been relocated and is now in what was originally the second bedroom. In fact that's the room where the first line-up members of Be Bop Deluxe used to sit together to learn the songs I'd written for the band, before we worked on them in a 'proper' rehearsal space. "The wood wall panel thing surrounding the gas fire in the lounge wasn't there either...it's a more recent addition...(I remember drawing the cover for the Northern Dream album whilst kneeling on the floor in front of the fire in that room.) "The 'front room' once housed an old upright piano on which I wrote most of the songs for the Futurama album. "The bedroom is very much as it was when I slept in it...the window looks out onto Anderson Street and the perimeter lights of Wakefield Prison would cast their glow into that bedroom at night. It was around 43 years ago..." ALBUM REVIEWS: Review on Spill Magazine Review on Exclusive Magazine Review on Music Street Journal Review by LMNOP Review on Sea of Tranquility Review on ProgNaut FAN THOUGHTS: Rev. Keith A. Gordon: "Some of my personal Be-Bop favourites come from the band's 1975 sophomore album Futurama , with which Nelson took a decidedly left-hand turn towards progressive-rock territory. Evidently dissatisfied with the outcome of Axe Victim , Nelson fired everybody and got new musicians for Futurama , changing the band's sound immensely. While critics at the time questioned the prog-rock tendencies of Futurama , the album's best songs evince a sort of prototype pop-metal songwriting and performance that would influence the coming "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" bands. The larger-than-life "Maid In Heaven" offers up some of Nelson's most inspired guitar-play, the song's memorable riff and infectious melody matched by sing-a-long lyrics and the guitarist's great tone and energy. By contrast, "Sister Seagull" is a hauntingly beautiful performance with cascading instrumentation, judicious use of a melodic riff, and Nelson's high-flying solos. Performed beautifully here, the song's emotional lyrics are made all the more poignant by the powerful musical accompaniment, including the crying seagull guitar licks at the end." astrophobia: "My first BeBop Deluxe album (yes, album) was Futurama , but I cannot remember where I bought it. All I remember is that it was being played in the shop and I nearly pissed myself. Never in my life had I heard anything like it. I was hooked. To this day it is still my favourite BeBop album as every track exudes quality. I even ordered the sold out Axe Victim on the strength of that first listening." asterisk: "I then went over the B section and noticed there was indeed a Be Bop Deluxe card, with two copies of this oddly-illustrated Futurama album, both taped-up in plastic album bags. I then did the usual of comparing of both copies to make sure to grab the one in the best condition, and then walked back towards the counter. Then I stopped and went back to contemplate buying both but then came to my senses thinking why deprive anyone else of the opportunity I just experienced? So up to the counter with my new favourite album. "I asked the fellow 'what is this strange and wonderful thing?' He told me they were one of his favourite bands and that it had just come in with the shipment of new releases about an hour or so before. But I had to know - were they any other albums by this Be Bop Deluxe? He fumbled around beneath the counter and produced and even stranger looking album with an illustration of a guitar appearing to have been fashioned out of a human skull on its cover. How charming, I thought. But was it any good? He asked if I wanted to hear it and I declined, not wanting him to take off Futurama ." Harlequin: "A friend played me "Sound Track" from Futurama and it was like the first time I'd heard The Beatles. I bought that and every Be Bop record I could find. That led me to The Skids, The Lucy Show and XTC via the John Leckie connection." eddie: First Be Bop LP you bought, and the name of the shop?: "With me it was Futurama from 'Listen Records' in Glasgow, Renfield Street. "The night before my mate had managed to smuggle (I kid you not) a mobile disco into a house for some girl's birthday party, and he said have a listen to this, it was "Stage Whispers" cue all sorts of flashing lights and whatever. "I think we ruined the frigging party because we kept playing this track over and over again." polly: "When I brought Futurama home the very first thing she (Mum) said, was, "those boys all look clean and tidy". Praise indeed." Parsongs: "I really think Roy Thomas Baker did a good job on this one. It has a really "BIG" sound with a wide dynamic range. And I love Bill's piano playing on these tracks. I wonder if he played the piano at Abbey Road - was it a Bluthner or a Steinway? I think they might have had both..." loversaremortal: "Have loved Bills work since hearing Futurama way back when...and seeing BBD at the Liverpool Stadium in the 70's...I am catching up quickly on the great man's solo output...and I am VERY VERY Impressed...so ingenious and authentic and honest...qualities which shine through Bill's music." Albums Menu Future Past

Nelsonica 07 Live Archive For the Nelsonica 07 convention, held on the 27th October 2007, a new venue was required. The Park Inn , in the centre of York provided much better seating arrangement, as well as a break-away bar and plenty of rooms for attendees to stay over, should they wish! The theme and title of this year's convention was 'Secret Club For Members Only'. Attendees would receive a 'Top Secret' envelope containing their convention CD along with other goodies. Bill performed a solo set, split into two sections to allow for a break. Here's the set list for the show... Set One: 1: Gloria Mundae. 2: I Always Knew You Would Find Me. 3: The Raindrop Collector. 4: Golden Dream Of Circus Horses. 5: Night Song Of The Last Tram. 6: Beatniks From Outer Space. 7: Imperial Parade. 8: Somewhere In Far Tomorrow. 9: A Dream For Ian. 10: Contemplation. (Vocal.) 11: Ghost Show. (Vocal.) Set Two: 1: Mars Welcomes Careful Drivers. 2: Beyond These Clouds. 3: Artifex. 4: Teatime In The Republic Of Dreams. 5: Secret Club For Members Only. 6: Sleepwalk. 7: Hey, Bill Diddley!' (Part vocal.) 8: Neon Lights And Japanese Lanterns. 9: The Girl On The Fairground Waltzer. 10: Quinta Essentia. Here's a few pictures...if you have any you would like to add, please get in touch!

Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights Bill Nelson 2-CD album set - November 1987 Albums Menu Future Past Purchase this download DISC ONE: The Angel At The Western Window 01) West Deep 02) The Spirit Cannot Fail 03) Pilots Of Kite 04) Seventh Circle 05) Phantom Gardens 06) The Angel Of Hearth And Home 07) Villefranche Interior 08) Night Tides 09) First Memory 10) Azure Extension 11) Radiant Spires 12) The Evening Peal 13) Threnodia 14) A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain 15) Body Of Light 16) At The Center 17) Self-Initiation 18) The Word That Became Flesh 19) The Hermetic Garden 20) Revolving Globes 21) The Four Square Citadel 22) Little Daughters Of Light 23) Orient Of Memphis 24) The Angel At The Western Window CD only songs added to Disc One: 25) The Piano Room 26) Rain Dance 27) Aching Heart 28) Arising 29) Welcome To Realm Seven 30) Without A Blue Horizon 31) Female Nebula 32) Demon Raising 33) Burning The Grove Of Satyrs 34) The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of 35) Realm Of Archons 36) The Rossetti Effect 37) Infinite Station 38) Piano Angelica DISC TWO: The Book Of Inward Conversation 01) My Dark Daemon 02) The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers) 03) Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over 04) Path Of Return 05) Theurgia 06) Staircase To No Place 07) Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood 08) The Kingdom Of Consequence 09) The Divine Raptures Of Sisterhood 10) Bright Star (Moonlight Over Ocean Blue) 11) A Bird Of The Air Shall Carry Thy Voice 12) Clothed In Light Amongst The Stars 13) Gnosis 14) Bringers Of Lights To The Feast 15) Hastening The Chariot Of My Heart's Desire 16) Transcendant 17) Consolamentum Ecclesia Gnostica (Music for the Interior Church) ep 18) Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart 19) Mysterium 20) Katharos 21) Day Of Eternity 22) Evening Adoration 23) Ecclesia Gnostica 24) Young Angels By An Ancient River 25) Finis Gloria Mundi ALBUM NOTES: Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights is a double instrumental album issued by Cocteau Records. It was Nelson's third consecutive non-vocal album released in less than 12 months. The album was issued on vinyl and cassette, the first vinyl edition coming with a 7" ep entitled Ecclesia Gnostica . As with Map of Dreams , it took a few months after the release of the album before a CD version appeared, which added the 7" ep to disc 2 and 14 exclusive tracks to disc 1. This was still early days for the CD format though, and the 2CD set retailed at approximately three times the cost of the double vinyl. The Ecclesia Gnostica ep was never officially available separately, but second hand copies that have been liberated from the double LP can occasionally be found on the collectors market. PAST RELEASES: In 1989, Chance Encounters appeared in the US on Enigma in 3 formats: 2LP, 2CD and cassette. In July 2017, Esoteric/Cherry Red Records reissued a remastered version of the double CD edition of Chance Encounters . The set is presented in a foldout double digipack, with a full reproduction of all the original album artwork. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available for purchase as a digital download here in the Dreamsville Store . BILL'S THOUGHTS: From the liner notes: "The music presented on these 2 albums marks the consolidation of several years of musical & philosophical practice. Almost every piece was conceived during moments of intense stillness or 'magical vacuity'. For this I acknowledge the influence of the late Austin Osman Spare, whose technique for creating 'automatic drawing' has found a sympathetic resonance in my own work. Of all the music I have made, this is, perhaps, the most personal & yet the least demonstrative. Attempting nothing & existing purely for itself, it is, nevertheless, a practical music, ideally suited to the occultist in search of ritual atmosphere or serene meditation. With such a purpose in mind I offer this work to my fellow initiates as a testament to the Gnosis & a confirmation of The World Within." FAN THOUGHTS: A Kinder Light: "I simply always wondered...how can someone even go about creating music like this? I was so blown away by this album when I first heard it that I thought that Bill might have been a messenger from another dimension. This might seem even stranger...but I use to hear snippets of music like this in dreams when I was younger, which made it even more intriguing." JMH: "From the first track, "West Deep", I am captured...I must admit, Chance Encounters CD is one of my nightly meditations. It is hard to describe the frame of mind one enters, at the second track, on hearing the refrain: "The Spirit Cannot Fail You". Another of the artist's perfect works...to me this CD is Timeless." wadcorp: "I defy anyone to listen to Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights and not experience a calming effect. I put it on in my studio when I'm getting too tense for my own good…" Holer: "I' m heavily into Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights album at the moment. It feels like a continuation of the Trial By Intimacy albums but even spookier and more evocative...Great stuff!" Phil: "Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights remains my favourite BN album, much as I like the newer albums and the BBD stuff, it's this one that I play the most. It also contains what I consider to be Bill's most hypnotic and beautiful track, namely "The Angel at the Western Window"." alec: "I like the Surrealism of "Evocation of a Radiant Childhood", from Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights . Its ending is very unexpected drive through the clouds-all-blue..." Panoramicon: "For myself, I chose disc 2 from Chance Encounters , The Book of Inward Conversation, to help me connect (in many ways) with the loss of my dad. The ten final tracks simultaneously lift me and break my heart, esp. "Consolamentum"." Parsongs: "The Trial By Intimacy box set really sealed the deal, with Chance Encounters being a zenith; an ambient collection I always refer to as an influence. I loved the charming simplicity of the Cocteau years, the way Bill would start with a blank slate and build up songs one sound and idea at a time." stormboy: "I think Bill came into his own when creating synth pieces from Sounding the Ritual Echo onwards through to Optimism , say. I particularly enjoy the beautiful construction of the pieces, which were expertly interwoven mainly monosynth lines. His sense of stereo production on these albums is fantastic, especially given (or perhaps because of) the technical limitations of his studio at the time... Although I still think Bill is a brilliant synth-er to this day, I DO miss the analogue manipulations that he so expertly displayed in the Cocteau years! I envy his mighty Triton, but some of the soundscapes he created with his analogue set-up are amazing." Johnny Jazz: "Bill's output is so varied, there's usually a piece of music that you can put on to compliment any mood, a sort of life soundtrack. Personally, Bill has a knack of recording stuff that evokes all manner of emotional responses in this listener. Chance Encounters , The Love That Whirls are prime examples of the many that hit the spot. I'm really hard pressed to think of any other musicians/composers who can do this in quite the same way as Bill. It's a VERY rare talent." "I'd hope that Bill reissues, if he can, the double cd version of Chance Encounters . Fortunately, I have a copy, and to my mind it's possibly the best collection of Bill's ambient music I've heard." John Fisher: "Wow! I just received my copy of the reissue here stateside, and I am impressed. Great digipack layout using all the original artwork, and nice attention to detail. Overall it has better presentation than the original. Well done Esoteric/Cherry Red!" Albums Menu Future Past

Bill Nelson Live! Unfortunately, Bill has no live shows planned at the moment and due to health issues it is unlikely that he will perform live in the future... Make sure you have subscribed to this website's mailing list for news and updates. Bill's Live Show Archive

Quiet Bells Bill Nelson album - 9 March 2015 Albums Menu Future Past Purchase this download TRACKS: 01) We Here Who Were There 02) Vapour Grey 03) The Day I Dreamed You Up 04) Shifting Sands 05) Ocean In The Sky 06) I Dream Of Waves 07) Seaglass 08) Sun On Water, Wind In Wire 09) The Fields Beyond 10) Beneath Her Dappled Apple Tree 11) Chiming Shires 12) Boy Chases Butterfly 13) Ghosts Of The Space Age 14) Transcendental Tittycups 15) A Perfect Night - The Dawn Rejoices 16) Theme From Uncanny Valley 17) Quiet Bells 18) In Dreams Awake ALBUM NOTES: Quiet Bells is an instrumental album issued in a one-off print run of 500 copies on the Sonoluxe label. The album was the first to be commenced after Nelson had been diagnosed with a hearing problem, and was deliberately styled to be quiet and discrete. Work on Quiet Bells was commenced in July 2014 and was completed by September 2014. The album was released on 9 March 2015, and like its predecessor, Shining Reflector , sold out in 7 days. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available for purchase as a digital download here in the Dreamsville Store . BILL'S THOUGHTS: "This album is a semi-ambient guitar instrumental fantasia, situated somewhere in mood between the Rosewood acoustic albums and the more electric Dreamland to Starboard , And We Fell Into A Dream , and Signals From Realms of Light albums. "It is predominantly guitar based but with lots of AxeFX processing and features the prototype of my 'Astroluxe' signature guitar. The album contains 18 tracks and enough musical mysterioso to keep you digging deep for many months. "It is also the first album I've recorded since my uncomfortable and debilitating hearing loss. Working on this album has been a real challenge, difficult and frustrating yet, despite all that, I think it has turned out ok. By the time it has been mastered at Fairview by John Spence, I think you will find that it's more than acceptable! It has a lovely, gentle, ruminative atmosphere which will, I hope, provoke deep thoughts and technicolour dreams." _____ "John Spence, when we mastered this album, said it was 'thoughtful'. I'll agree with that too...it has some deep and dark stuff going on in it somehow. It's one of the more 'soulful' albums of mine, despite the ambient nature of it." _____ "The photograph on the back cover of the album, (with the tree and landscape), was taken by me, only a few yards away from my house. Incidentally, the interior photo's of the Buddha statue, (with Emi's flowers), and the Carp pond, (plus the dragonfly image to the right of it), are my photo's too." FAN THOUGHTS: Palladium: "Completely 'blown away' by this (Quiet Bells ) - although it's not what I'd expected from reading the above comments. Very different in texture and sound from previous 'ambient'-leaning guitar instrumentals. Seems experimental, fresh, new, invigorating - the kinds of things you don't expect from an artist who has recorded a hundred or so albums! How many times have I listened to a new BN album for the first time, and at certain points thought "this is the best thing I've ever heard". I get a lot of that with Quiet Bells - like when I listened to "A Perfect Night - The Dawn Rejoices" first time." "The first thing that struck me about Quiet Bells was its depth and coherence, given some of the reviews and BN's own typically modest comments about it leading up to its release. In other words, I didn't expect it to be the major album I think it is." Parsongs: "What a wonderful album it is. "Bill has applied his ambient sensibilities (think Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights ) to his best instrumental guitar compositions (a la Romance of Sustain ) to produce a completely new style and mood. "The music is soothing, relaxing, meditative, introspective. I recommend playing it start to finish, then repeat! I must add that the sonic fidelity is incredible; what a great mix! You never cease to amaze us, Bill!" machman767: "I've only been able to listen once but I'm amazed at the quality. Even more astounding is that it's been created whilst suffering the hearing problem, I can only assume that we really are in the presence of a gifted musician, not that there has ever been any doubt. I don't usually "get" these style of CDs but this is something much more deeper, as Bill says, it's got soul." RJR: "It hearkens back to the very awesome Rosewood CDs and meanders through Neptune's Galaxy , Silvertone Fountains , and other non-vocal collections. But, it is unique and stands on its own. I have a hunch that this one is one that will continue to grow as the spring and summer nights become more the norm. I told my wife that this one is a "floater" (please remove the first visions that just came to your mind) in that it creates an atmosphere where it augments the visual surroundings and creates a feeling of inner levitation." Face In The Rain: "Held off posting anything about Quiet Bells to give myself a chance to listen to it a few times, just in case I was wrong. But I'm not. It's my favourite BN album. Simple as that. I think that about each new release but this time I mean it. The sound is gorgeous - plus it's Bill doing what he does best which IMHO is noodling away on an axe. Maybe it's because I'm of a certain age and in increasingly contemplative mood but this album just completely hits the spot." Alan: "This album is absolutely beautiful. Nothing short of sublime. The music on this album is seamless in its ability to entertain. "Thanks so very much Bill, for providing the soundtrack of my dreams for all these years. And, it just gets better all of the time." andygeorge: "When I die and go to Heaven, and I will 'cos I'm a good boy, this is what I expect to be playing...wonderful music Mr Nelson!" Albums Menu Future Past

Radioland retrospective collection - 5 October 1994 Be Box Deluxe Collections Menu Future Past TRACKS: 01) Life In The Air Age 02) Sister Seagull 03) Third Floor Heaven 04) Blazing Apostles 05) Maid In Heaven 06) Kiss Of Light 07) Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape 08) Fair Exchange 09) Ships In The Night 10) Modern Music/Dancing In The Moonlight/Honeymoon On Mars/Lost In The Neon World/Modern Music (Reprise) 11) New Precision 12) Superenigmatix 13) Possession 14) Dangerous Stranger 15) Islands Of The Dead 16) Panic In The World NOTES: Radioland is a compilation of the band's BBC recordings for 'In Concert', made in 1976 and 1978. Sourced from 3 different shows, each recording was edited when compared to the original broadcast material. The same compilation in remastered form and in new artwork was reissued as Tremulous Antenna in 2002. The subsequent release of At the BBC 1974-1978 (2013), with the inclusion of the previously omitted tracks, makes this CD redundant. Tracks 1-4: Recorded for BBC's 'Radio 1 In Concert' at the Paris Theatre 15.01.76. Producer Jeff Griffin. Tracks 5-10: Recorded for BBC's 'Radio 1 In Concert' at the Hammersmith Odeon 20.10.76. Producer Pete Dauncey. Tracks 11-16: Recorded for BBC's 'Radio 1 In Concert' at Golders Green Hippodrome 19.01.78. Producer Jeff Griffin. PAST RELEASES: At the time of its release, none of the material on Radioland had officially been issued. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: The physical CD is out of print, but the album is available as a download on internet download stores. Collections Menu Future Past

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 William's Study (Diary Of A Hyperdreamer) May 2010 Jan Jun Sep Nov Dec Tuesday 25th May 2010 -- 2:00 pm The gaps between diary entries become wider as the complexity of daily life increases. As I've said so often before, finding enough free time to write up this odd little journal is not always easy. My previous entry, dated 5th January, seems an eternity ago. So much has happened since then that it would be impossible for me to record everything in detail here without spending several hours typing. Instead, I'll attempt to fill in the missing pages in as condensed a form as possible. The last few months have certainly been eventful. During a bout of severe winter weather Emiko and I were involved in a car accident up in the hills of West Yorkshire, not far from Emley Moor. We were driving through a fairly remote area of countryside, on a narrow country lane running down a very steep hill, when, despite progressing slowly and carefully, we lost control of the car and slid sideways down the hill and into a grass verge, narrowly missing a tree. A large four wheel drive vehicle then came over the brow of the hill, stopped for a moment then attempted to drive around us but hit the same treacherous section of ice and snow and also lost control, slamming violently into the side of our car. We were lucky in that we were not physically hurt but we were badly shaken up by the event. Our car, however, suffered some quite serious damage which required it to be sent to an accident repair centre for extensive (and expensive) work. It was off the road for several weeks. Luckily, we were fully covered by our insurance and were given a courtesy car until the repairs were complete. The car is now visibly as good as new. A very unpleasant experience however, and not one that Emi and I would care to repeat. Another unpleasant experience was had when I fell ill with a very nasty gastric flu virus. It started with sudden shivering and aching body, then a very high temperature and stomach pains. I was confined to bed for three or four days, feeling absolutely awful, then not out of my dressing gown for a week. A further week passed before things really began to improve and I felt strong enough to venture outside. I always seem to catch some evil bug or other in the period between New Year and Spring. However, the really annoying aspect of this particular illness was that it caused me to miss the Rufus Wainwright concert in Sheffield for which our good friends Steve and Julia had provided us with tickets as a Christmas gift. I had been so looking forward to seeing Rufus and was terribly disappointed at being too ill to attend. A severe and prolonged toothache has also proved debilitating. It's settled down now but is still somewhat uncomfortable,especially when eating. Of course, my phobia regarding all things medical works against me in these situations. I tend to endure the problem until it resolves itself. Although I consider myself a reasonably bright chap, I certainly can be stubborn and stupid sometimes. I've also been spending time with my mother every week, travelling over to Wakefield to take her out for dinner, giving her a hand with supermarket shopping, etc. Also helping her to deal with the conclusion of the litigation process that she was forced to undertake in order to gain a little more security, all as a result of inadequate provision being made for her in her late husband's will. The whole thing proved to be a tough and totally undeserved ordeal for my mother but, after more than two years of legal action and a modest settlement, there are still a couple of loose ends to tie up. Hopefully, these final issues can be resolved as soon as possible and mum can put this unfortunate situation behind her and get on with her life. Another major pre-occupation for me has been the preparation of volume one of my autobiography. I began work on this project several years ago but, due to various other responsibilities, haven't touched the manuscript for quite a while. A recent decision to privately publish volume one in book form has meant that I've had to devote several weeks of my time exclusively to reviving the project. I've adjusted and re-written large chunks of the original text and compiled over seventy photographs from family archives which I'm hoping to include in the book. The work has required intense concentration and long hours each day to pull it together but it's now almost ready for a rough mock up to be produced so that any final layout/cosmetic changes can be made before it goes off to the printers. The book's title is 'Painted From Memory. Volume One: Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood.' It covers the period from my birth to leaving school and tells how I first became bewitched by guitars and my consequent attempts to learn how to play the instrument. I suspect that a publisher would, in the interests of commerce and conciseness, edit the manuscript quite dramatically...but I'm determined to make this privately printed, limited edition version of the book as true to my original concept as possible. It is packed with detailed descriptions of my early life and provides a unique view of the post-war, working class life in which I grew up. I'm hoping that it will have a broader appeal than a 'How I Became Guitar Boy' type of story, (although that aspect is more than adequately taken care of in the text). My hope is to have the book printed and available to fans of my music by November. Which would coincide perfectly with this year's Nelsonica fan convention. Nelsonica 10 is an ongoing and important preoccupation for me, even at this early time of the year. This year celebrates the 10th anniversary of the event and the Nelsonica Team and myself are trying our best to make it a special one for fans. After some deliberation regarding practicalities and dramatically increased production costs we've decided to attempt a complex two-day event to mark the occasion. I've concocted a fun title for the event: 'Captain Future's Psychotronic Circus,' which suits the playful nature of this special anniversary Nelsonica, and also reflects my childhood fascination with circuses and science fiction. So...this year's event will include a three-part live concert on Day One and a number of interesting presentations on Day Two. The live performance, due to its wide-ranging nature, presents me with a challenge in itself, even before the features of the second day are taken into account. I'm planning to put together a solo set of guitar-based instrumental music with video backdrops, followed by a trio-based set as 'Orchestra Futura,' (which will concentrate on improvised music featuring Theo Travis on saxophone, flute and loops and Dave Sturt on bass guitar and lap-top treatments, plus myself on guitars and loops.) Then there will be a third set featuring my 7-piece 'Gentlemen Rocketeers' band playing a selection of music from my past, (but with a subtle hint of the future!) Choosing, preparing and rehearsing such a complex and extensive 'one-off' show will certainly prove time consuming and physically exhausting but will also offer convention attendees a rich and rewarding listening experience. A fully-packed evening of live music and visuals. The second day will feature special presentations that the Nelsonica Team and myself are already in the process of planning. Amongst these presentations will be an exhibition of my guitars. One of the exhibited jewels in this particular collection will be a unique Campbell Nelsonic Transitone guitar that has been hand painted for me by American artist Nicholas Del Drago. Nicholas is a renowned painter of motorbikes, custom cars and guitars. He is also a guitarist in his own right and a friend of guitar super-star Joe Satriani, (for whom he has also painted a guitar). The Nelsonic guitar that Nicholas has painted for me features a wonderfully retro panorama inspired by some pulp 1950's sci-fi illustrations I sent to him just over a year ago. Nicholas has achieved, on this guitar, a fabulous, deep metalflake paint effect that really sparkles and comes to life when lit by strong light. The sides of the guitar feature a 'flip paint' finish that changes hue depending from which angle it is viewed. The instrument is equipped withAlumitone pickups which in themselves are quite different from any of my other guitars' pickups. In short, it's a very special piece and I'm extremely grateful to Nicholas and Dean Campbell for creating such a striking instrument for me. I've already used the guitar on some of my new but as yet unreleased recordings and it sounds just as good as it looks. Recording, of course, is a continual process for me, an almost daily exercise, or, (dare I say it?) a sort of meditation on 'being,' in the Buddhist sense of the word. (Yes, I dare...) There's something both compulsive and revelatory about just 'doing the work'...I suppose, for me, it's the creative process itself that throws the switch that turns on the internal lightbulb, rather than anything to do with what people might perceive as the musical end result. That old cliché about the journey being more important than the arriving fits my experience perfectly because, whilst the finished albums finally find their meaning with the listener, it's the creative act, the private ritual of making, that ultimately illuminates things for me, especially as I compose and record these albums in an extremely solitary fashion, all alone here in my tiny studio. Since my previous diary entry I've released an album of the soundtrack music I created for the documentary film 'American Stamps.' The film was aired on the US television PBS, (Public Broadcasting Service), channel last year. The music has produced a pleasant and colourful album and, judging from comments posted on my website's forum, seems to have charmed those who have heard it. The album is titled 'PICTURE POST' and it's packaging features a set of imaginary stamps depicting some of my own American pop icons such as Orson Welles, Les Paul, John Cage, Duane Eddy and Fred Astaire. As expected though, I'm already deep into recording brand new music for release later in the year. At this point in time, the aim is to gather together the best, or most compatible, pieces into two distinctive albums. One of these albums will become this year's Nelsonica special edition CD. It will, like the convention itself, be titled 'CAPTAIN FUTURE'S PSYCHOTRONIC CIRCUS' and should be loosely, (though not exclusively), themed around that particular concept. The second album is to be titled 'MOON GOLD PALLADIUM' and, if all goes to plan and I don't shift my conceptual gears, be a lush, richly textured, epic but deeply romantic, (in the poetic, painterly sense of the word), album of vocal-based songs. It will also contain a few appropriate instrumental interludes. All of this is ongoing and organically developing. Lots of work done so far but I still feel that I need to continue along these particular mysterious garden paths until I've gathered enough flowers to make a beautiful arrangement. The vase in the window is patiently awaiting (and anticipating), the artist's hand. Thankfully, the sun is out and the Idea Bird is singing. What else? Well...A shiny new computer sits in front of me as I type these words. Yes, finally, I am connected to broadband and am able to access the internet in a far more contemporary and speedy fashion than before. My new iMac takes up less space than my old G4 Mac and things look slightly less crowded in this tiny home studio than previously. I've yet to fully understand the finer points of some of the latest software, but all that will be resolved in time. My previous computer was ten years behind my current software so there's a reasonably steep learning curve to deal with, especially when it comes to things such as Photoshop and Final Cut. But it's really inspiring to suddenly have the opportunity to move my creative work forward with the help of this sleek machine. It's as if I've moved from gas to electricity! And there are changes in our domestic life too: We are currently being assaulted by banging, hammering, drilling and sawing. Our old, rotten, leaky and unhygenic kitchen is in the process of being completely renovated. I'd hung on to our old kitchen for a long time, hoping that I could postpone the radical changes, (and expense), required to drag us into a more clean and contemporary realm. But, suddenly, there seemed no choice but to 'bite the bullet.' Things were falling apart in a bad way and what had once seemed charmingly 'shabby' had become frustratingly useless. Actually, our home desperately requires a variety of renovations, most of which are currently beyond our reach... but the kitchen's many problems are finally in the process of being rectified. The work began with us emptying stuff from the old kitchen cupboards. An astonishing amount of 'stuff' as it happens. It is now occupying the dining room, actually filling the entire space! AND overflowing into the lounge and into the little study, (a room that was already almost impossible to enter due to accumulations of this, that or the other item of 20th Century bric-a-brac.) The physical work of demolishing the old kitchen began last Wednesday and since then we have had no means of cooking, (or washing up). Today the installation of the new kitchen units has begun, though there's much more to be done in that department, including fitting the worktops, sink and various items of hardware. Still, the tiled floor has already been completed and a new 'range-style' oven will be delivered on Thursday. Hopefully, with the exception of re-decorating the walls and ceiling, the new kitchen should be operational by the early part of next week. Emi is very much looking forward to finally having a decent, practical and easier to clean kitchen to work in. She's thrilled about it all and can't wait to see the finished thing. Lots of plaster dust in the air at the moment though, even up here in my studio...A fine layer of it seems to cover every surface. The cleaning up process will involve more than the kitchen and dining room areas by the look of things. Meanwhile, we've been eating out every evening, (but tonight we had fish n' chips from the village chippie). Had dinner with Elle and Elliot at Ceasar's Italian restaurant in town last night. They're busy people and I don't get to see them as often as I'd like. Rehearsing and performing with 'Honeytone Cody' takes up a lot of their time. I'm just as wrapped up in music too, I guess. But they're very talented and I'm extremely proud of them and it's always good for us to spend some time together. This last weekend was more like summer than spring: bright, clear blue skies and hot golden sunshine. As the kitchen company were not working at our house on Saturday and Sunday, Emi and I took the opportunity to get away from all the kitchen debris and distraction for a while. On Saturday afternoon we went to Knaresborough and enjoyed apple pie and ice cream whilst sitting at the edge of the river, watching the little rowing boats drift by beneath the old Victorian railway bridge. A favourite fair weather spot for us. Later, we drove to Harrogate for dinner and ended up at a restaurant called 'William And Victoria.' It was the first time we'd eaten there and it was extremely enjoyable. Sunday we drove to Whitby, 'though the traffic was terrible and it took us far longer than usual. Had lunch at a place called 'Marine' which we hadn't been to before. Very nice it was too, we'll be going back next time we visit Whitby. The weather was beautiful and we sat overlooking the harbour after lunch, just taking in the view. I love visiting that place, even though it's sometimes very busy with tourists. Sadly, one of our favourite Harrogate restaurants has unexpectedly closed down. 'San Martino' is no more, a victim of the economic climate by the look of it. Such a shame. But there are so many places suffering the same fate. 'The Lamb and Lion Inn' in York was another favourite eatery of ours. Several weeks ago now, Emi and I drove into town to have lunch there, only to find the place locked up and in darkness. Gone forever due to the Royal Bank Of Scotland calling time on the business, despite the owners turning things around and getting it into profit after the losses incurred by previous owners. We miss the place very much as it had become a regular haunt of ours. And I still miss 'Borders' bookshop in the centre of town. The building it occupied remains empty and forlorn, the 'Borders' logo remains displayed within its walls but there are only the ghosts of books and the ruins of bookshelves to remind one of the place it once was. As I've probably mentioned elsewhere, 'Borders' opened here several years ago now, with such promise and style, only to slowly deteriorate, its original wide-ranging stock becoming narrower and narrower, less specialist and more predictable. A victim of the bland and mediocre consumerism of the modern marketplace? Or just bad management and exorbitant rents? Actually, the effects of the economic malaise seem to be more acute than ever. And, despite the usual hopes that accompany a general election, all I can see from the results of the recent hung Parliament is an exercise in spin that somehow defines the naivety and the gullibility of much of the public. Throughout the election campaign, the word 'change' was bandied about like a toy balloon at a children's party. And a children's party, I fear, is what we may have ended up with. I hope this uncomfortable coalition will not be as disastrous as it might appear...but I watch the television images of Cameron and his new found Lib-Dem pals sitting side by side and don't know whether to laugh or cry. What should we call such an alliance, other than 'disappointing?' The 'Con-dems' maybe? An arrogant toff with no upper lip and a fake Yorkshireman who resembles The Mekon but doesn't have green skin? Ok, that's rather unfair of me, I know. I'm just having a go, all in fun. Still, that old satirical tv show 'Spitting Image' would have a ball with this lot. Maybe they're very nice people and kind to their grannies, etc...but, despite their best efforts they come across, to me at least, as condescending and not a little devious. (But that's often a trait of the political classes, so nothing new there.) It will be interesting and darkly entertaining to see which way their wind blows though. I'm trying to think of other things I should include in this 'catch-up' of a diary entry but am finding it hard to think at all due to the threateningly loud sound of drilling and sawing coming from the kitchen below me. So, maybe that's enough typing for now. Until next time. ***** The images accompanying this diary are as follows:- 1: A shot of a corner of Bill's studio showing iMac and Rocketship Nelsonic Guitar. 2: Photo of Bill in front of Whitby Harbour, May 22nd 2010. 3: Photo of boats in a corner of Whitby Harbour taken by Bill 22 May 2010. 4: Bill with Rocketship Campbell Nelsonic guitar. May 2010. 5: Close up of Bill's Rocketship Campbell Nelsonic guitar painted by Nicholas Del Drago. 6: Weird creatures lurking in a corner of Bill's studio. Taken by Bill, March 2010. Top of page

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Plectrajet Bill Nelson album - 10 August 2015 Albums Menu Future Past Purchase this download TRACKS: 01) I Always Knew You Would Find Me 02) Time Travel For Beginners 03) Imperial Parade 04) Small Red Birds 05) Beyond These Clouds The Sweetest Dream 06) The Girl On The Fairground Waltzer 07) Electric Milkcart Blues 08) If I Was The Pilot Of Your Perfect Cloud 09) B-Movie Bug Boy 10) Neon Lights And Japanese Lanterns 11) Luxeodeon 12) Only A Dream, But Nevertheless ALBUM NOTES: Plectrajet (Painting With Guitars Volume Two) is an instrumental album issued in a one-off print run of 750 copies on the Sonoluxe label. The album is essentially a compilation of pieces that Nelson had been performing live over the previous two decades, but which hadn't yet found their way onto albums. The title Plectrajet had been around for about ten years also and was first suggested for the possible title (along with The Guitar Room ) of a compilation of guitar instrumentals from Nelson's back catalogue that was initially being considered in 2005. Although mentioned as recently as 2012, that compilation idea never saw light of day, and was supplanted by The Dreamer's Companion series of comps. The title then lay dormant until being considered simultaneously as a possible title for what became the Fantastic Guitars album, as well as for a proposed second volume of Painting with Guitars (both of which were works in progress in 2013). A second volume of Painting With Guitars had been an often mentioned idea over the years, although Nelson himself sometimes dismissed this as some of the material that naturally would have made up such a volume had been used on the Wah Wah Galaxy album. However, the popularity of this idea with fans would ensure that it never completely disappeared from the schedule of potential releases. The Romance of Sustain ( Painting With Guitars Volume One) was eventually reissued as a digital download in 2015, and was soon followed by Volume Two in physical form, to which Nelson assigned the title Plectrajet . Work began on the project in February 2015 and took approximately 1 month to complete, preparing a total of 33 tracks. No sooner had Nelson settled on the track listing for Plectrajet , he then assembled running orders for two further volumes (titled Six String Super Apparatus and Astral Overdrive respectively). As Nelson himself says, they represent "a farewell to an era". At the time of writing, Astral Overdrive is still in the pipeline of future releases. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available for purchase as a digital download here in the Dreamsville Store . IF YOU LIKED THIS ALBUM, YOU'LL PROBABLY ENJOY: Romance Of Sustain , Six String Super Apparatus , Sparkle Machine , Tripping The Light Fantastic , The Awakening Of Dr Dream , Loom , Practically Wired, Gleaming Without Lights , Plaything BILL'S THOUGHTS: "I've begun work on 'Painting with Guitars Vol 2' which has the working title of PLECTRAJET . This one has been a long time coming. It's basically gathering together some of the pieces I've performed live in my solo concerts over the years. I'm transferring the backing tracks from the CDs I use in a live situation to my multi-track recorder and adding the guitar parts to them, as if I was playing live. The tricky bit is getting the two components to sit together well. The backing tracks have a 'fixed' mix and individual instruments can't be re-balanced to suit the guitar overdubs. In a live situation, with all the vagaries of live sound, this doesn't present a great problem but in the studio, the situation is different. The tracks are exposed to much more scrutiny and their flaws become more apparent. Still, I'm treating them like a live performance and not aiming at sonic perfection...(actually, I have no choice in the matter), so hopefully the end result will be acceptable." _____ "There are a few rarities amongst these...some pieces that have only been performed live once or twice, but some more regular numbers too, which have featured in my solo concerts more frequently." _____ "There are three more volumes completed and coming out soon. They gather together all the tracks I've performed in my solo concerts over the years. 'Plectrajet' will be the first release of these." FAN THOUGHTS: Angie: "Oh I'm thrilled, I've been able to get this one..."Beyond These Clouds the Sweetest Dream" has been a favourite of mine for years so to have it on CD will be wonderful. In fact, my eyes are welled up at thought. "Imperial Parade" too. Another favourite. These tracks will bring back such happy memories of Nelsonicas and my Nelsonian friends." seakret: "All I can say is WOW. This is a marvel of guitar...This one is riveting." "Also wanted to point out that Plectrajet is an even more appealing treat for us Yanks since most of us yearn for a Nelsonica nearby but it was not to be. So these tracks, which bring great memories to many of you, are fresh as daisies to us!" novemberman: "Well what can I say...Plectrajet is absolutely superb!!! I have always been amazed by Bill's output, but with all that he has gone through over the last year or so, to produce music of this quality is simply astounding!! I do not know how you do it Bill, but thanks all the same." Axe Victim: "Love the way it sounds really raw and spontaneous." felixt1: "Great, happy, celebratory music and lashings of great guitar." andygeorge: "Imperial Parade": "Simply hypnotic, beautiful and mesmerising! Love it and the whole album, been playing it to death since I got it, all killer and no filler as they say...album of the decade from Bill if you're asking!" "Plectrajet for me is what defines Bill, I love his guitar based music and this album is full of happy memories for me from years of Nelsonicas and live gigs...which is why I said it's the best album Bill has put out in the last decade." Howden End: "Quickly become one of my all time favourite Bill albums. He covers so many of his signature guitar styles on it, and on so many tracks once again find myself thinking, "there is no one who does it as good as Sir Bill"; have adored "Beyond these Clouds..." since I heard it at Metropolis and his interpretation on Plectrajet is simply superb." meederr: "I must say I immediately liked Plectrajet . Nay, love every track. Congrats. I'm listening to The Years , and am liking that too. Thank you for challenging me, and zagging when I expect you to zig." Tony M: "What a great album! From "I Always Knew You Would Find Me" to "Imperial Parade" (my favorites) and much more. If you don't have this one, you are definitely missing out." Albums Menu Future Past

Saturday 19th December 2009 -- 10:00 pm Catch up time yet again: Emiko returned from Tokyo on the evening of the 7th of December as planned. Her ordeal in Japan now over although the emotional and physical exhaustion has clearly taken its toll. She's been extremely tired and, sadly, visibly depressed since attending her mother's funeral...which of course, is only to be expected. I've been trying to lift her spirits on a daily basis but there's only so much I can do. The reality is that she will have to work her way through her bereavement and the inevitable grief in her own time. I'm simply a shoulder to lean on and must try to stay aware of that and not try to force the issue with false bonhomie. There is no way to magic the pain away. I can't heal her hurt, only share it. But, Christmas is rapidly approaching and may well provide distractions or social interactions that might help to soften the impact of her sadness. At least I hope so... For myself, I think I coped reasonably well whilst Emi was away, though I missed her terribly as always. At least, it was only ten days this time and there were no unexpected cat crises. My sixty-first birthday yesterday. The years absolutely fly by now...the actual numbers becoming increasingly unreal, or so it seems to me, a man hardly out of short trousers in some ways. How fleeting are our lives...and how mercifully ignorant most of us are of time's violent, impassive acceleration. And yet...there is still so much to achieve, so many things to explore, such a lot to enjoy and to learn from... Or, as the cliche has it: 'so much to do, so little time.' Is this why the Buddhist teaching of reincarnation holds some sort of cuddly, consoling appeal for me? The possibility of an ongoing story, a kind of infinite apprenticeship before inevitable, blissful enlightenment finally places Buddahood's bright and golden crown on our rusting, befuddled and exhausted minds? Or, (more realistically), is this just one more crock of wishful-thinking born from our mortal inability to deal with the very real possibility of utter nothingness, utter meaninglesness at the end of our lives, no matter how long or brief those lives may be? Well, one part of me, actually the gut-instinct, primal-intuitive part of me, says it's all nonsense, an empty, desperate grabbing at thin, broken, rotten straws. Ego clinging to motes of dust...and dust clinging to an illusion of light, emptiness suspended in a black, bleak nothingness. Maybe the 'here and now' is ALL we ultimately have to cling to, regardless of whether our particular, personal here and now is little more than an illusion. (And, I have to say that 'here and now' seems always to be particular, subjective and personal. At least, according to my experience.) So, yes...Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Orson Welles, as Citizen Kane, gave the dying Kane the word 'Rosebud' to whisper on his terminal bed, as his personal enigma and mantra, a mystery suspended, hovering in air and slowly dissolving like those aforementioned, light-levitated, motes of dust. And who was, (or what was), 'Rosebud?' In Orson's film, it turned out to be a child's sled fixed in a snow-dome-idealised, frozen winter landscape. A metaphorical lifeboat for childhood's innocence and faith. Well, William.I think that's enough melancholy reflection for today. Christmas is coming, though with somewhat less sheer exuberance than previous years. Nevertheless, it presents us with an extra opportunity for warmth and love, something which I'm very much in need of during these cold, cynical, dark days. Yesterday and today, thick, white, lingering snow. Very cold and icy, particularly the isolated lane that leads from our house to the more-oft used road that winds into the village. Tricky conditions for driving and walking. Fabulously seasonal visuals though, a vintage Christmas card come to life. So...to all dear readers of this old Hyperdreamer's diary, I wish you a Very Merry, Joyous and Warm Christmas, and a miraculous, magical, life-enhancing 2010. As Tiny Tim said: "God bless us, every one." Top of page William's Study (Diary Of A Hyperdreamer) December 2009 Jan Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 Thursday 31st December 2009 -- 6:00 pm New Year's Eve, 2009. Let me see if I can get this entry written and posted before the clock ticks its inevitable tick-tock steps across the border between 2009 and 2010. I'll try to keep it short and to the point. No images, just words. It's cold still. The snow that fell before Christmas only now just gone, but more is promised, apparently. It's been white and icy for a week at least...very dangerous in the backyard, and on the dark lane outside our house. The main roads have not been too bad but it has certainly felt like an old-fashioned winter around these parts. Colder and more bleak than previous years and only lacking in horse-drawn coaches and post-horns. A Dickensian Christmas card come to life. Christmas Day was spent with our good friends, Steve and Julia, who live down the lane. I brought my mother over from Wakefield to spend the day with us and them...and to stay over for boxing day when Elle and Elliot came to visit. Lights twinkling on the tree, Christmas cards suspended from the wooden beams in the living room, electric icicles and neon sparkles hung in the trees in our snow covered garden, candles and incense and the sensation of mellow, melancholy but benevolent ghosts of Christmases past, hovering and humming in the frosty air. Hornby Dublo train sets, Meccano and Dinky Toys glowing in the living room of memory. Magic hour! I was given some nice gifts, for birthday and Christmas, as always: Emiko had bought me an Andy Warhol wristwatch whilst she was in Tokyo. Made by Seiko for the Warhol Museum, it's a little beauty...(just like my lovely Emi!) Lots of books given too, which suits me just fine. My home is like a library. Got the following from Emiko: ''Perfecting Sound Forever - The Story Of Recorded Music' by Greg Milner. 'Orson Welles At Work.' (A thick, lavishly illustrated coffee table book published by Phaidon.) 'The Art Of Osamu Tezuka' by Helen McCarthy.' And from My friend Paul Gilby I received: 'Shop America. Mid Century Storefront Design-1938 to 1950.' And: ''Architecture Of The Air - The Sound And Light Environments Of Christopher Janney.' (Ironically, I also bought the same 'Shop America' book as my Christmas gift to Paul! Well, great minds think alike, etc...) Elliot and Elle bought me: 'John Barry - The Man With The Midas Touch' by Geoff Leonard, Pete Walker and Gareth Bramley. (Nicely illustrated, this one.) My friends Steve and Julia bought me 'This Is The Way To The Moon' (A reproduction of the children's classic by M. Sasek, beautifully illustrated.) And just before Christmas, I treat myself to a book or two: 'Phallic Frenzy, Ken Russell And His Films' by Joseph Lanza. 'All Is Change, The Two-Thousand Year Journey Of Buddhism To The West' by Lawrence Sutin. 'Prophet John Wroe, Virgins, Scandals And Visions' by Edward Green. 'The Barnum Museum' by Steven Millhauser. 'Death On A Branch Line' and 'The Last Train To Scarborough' (Both titles by Andrew Martin, part of his 'Jim Stringer, Steam Detective' series and the latter book signed by the author himself.) Other gifts included a quirky old Russian Nomo 'Cosmic Symbol' camera bought for me from the internet by my youngest daughter Elle, a very stylish neck-tie bought for me by Emiko from Tokyo, a box set of George Formby DVD's, (also from Emiko). A bottle of Chanel 'Egoiste' cologne, (Emiko again), and lots of light-hearted, fun, stocking-fillers. One of the most generous gifts that Emi and I received came from Steve and Julia: two tickets to Rufus Wainwright's upcoming concert at Sheffield City Hall in April of 2010. A totally unexpected treat and VERY much appreciated by both of us. As readers of this diary already know, Emi and myself are big fans of Rufus' work and we're both looking forward to seeing him perform in April. 'Borders' book store closed just before Christmas. (Did I already mention this in an earlier diary entry? Maybe not.) Browsing the York store was almost a daily ritual for me, part of my afternoon escape from the confines of my recording room. It was from Borders that I purchased American magazines that were not easily found in UK stores: 'Guitar Player', ' Vintage Guitar Magazine', ' Downbeat' jazz magazine, the now defuct '20th Century Guitar' magazine and many other imported titles, including the magnificent 'Fretboard Journal' magazine, a publication that only recently appeared on Borders' shelves here in the UK. When Borders first opened in England, it seemed like a breath of fresh air: it featured specialist sections dealing in left-field books, periodicals, CDs and DVDs, items that appealed to those of us who sought out the more unusual, less mainstream aspects of contemporary culture. Borders recognised that there was a need to cater to those whose tastes ranged beyond the populist staples.. Unfortunately, the last two or three years of the store's life has seen an erosion of such provision. The once broad-based CD racks became much diminished, not only in size but also in the quality of their contents. The jazz, folk, country, world music and classical sections all but vanished...then the rock and pop music sections began to dwindle too and have now, along with everything else the store contained, gone forever... The store closed its doors just before Christmas Eve for the very last time, never to re-open again. Another victim of the internet's ruthless undercutting of high street retail store values. I was there at the York store's closing, but walked out just five minutes before the final bell when the last customer left and the doors were locked for the last time. On that final day, Borders offered a 90% discount on previous prices, but the place looked like a jumble sale with books piled up on tables and none of them of any interest to me. Now, I have no real place to browse for my American music magazines and contemporary art periodicals on my daily, routine, stroll around town. W.H.Smith somehow doesn't have the same vibe, (or stock the same titles), nor does Waterstones, although it is now the main bookseller on the high street. A great shame I think. And even more of a shame: the helpful and once enthusiastic staff who, sadly, have been made redundant. Thankfully, York does have several small independent, antiquarian and second hand bookshops. They will, I'm sure, provide me with some unforseen discoveries, not to mention the tactile shopping experience denied to me by the internet retailers. But it's not just Borders that has suffered...so many others businesses are still floundering too, both big and small. The fashion retailer 'Ghost' has just vanished from the city after a closing down clearance sale. Far too many shops, large and small, emptied and abandoned, their leases not taken up. For all of York's boastful tourism, many traders are struggling for economic survival. The much-touted 'recovery' seems to be little more than hot air. And it seems that It may remain so for some time yet. As for music. I can definitely see the negative effect that illegal internet torrent sites and unauthorised downloading is having on the recording industry in general, including my own tiny cottage industry and others in the same modest position as myself. Whilst the internet has provided small volume, specialist artists with a new outlet for our non-mainstream work, it is also clear that it has had a negative effect on our situation. An awful lot of damage has been afflicted on the entire industry too. But, whilst the major artists and record companies are equipped to weather the storm, those of us depending on small-volume sales are gradually being swept away, never to return. We really are at the mercy of consumers and need, more than ever, an audience who value our contribution and recognise that they, as individuals, are an important component of our survival. And of the survival of music that exists beyond the corporate net.Those who buy direct from the artist are not just consumers but, more importantly, patrons and co-conspiritors, fellow collaborators, preservers of ideals. It all seems to be coming down to a choice between mediocrity or marvelousness. Will the future be blatantly banal or benevolently beautiful? And, with that thought, I wish all readers of this Hyperdreamer's diary, a healthy, peaceful and enlightened 2010. Much love from Bill and Emiko. xxx Top of page

Monday 29th August 2005 -- 9:00 pm August is about to end. 2005 seems to have moved towards autumn at a terrific pace. I've not realised just how quickly time has flown and I'm now in even more of a panic than before. This year has been an unrelenting attempt to hit deadlines and targets that I'd somewhat optimistically set myself several months ago (and which were listed in the previous diary entry to this one). Did I miscalcuate just how much I could achieve in that time? Or am I simply slowing down with the weight of the years? Somewhere along the way, summer seems to have happened to everyone else whilst I've been stuck in my little workroom, assembling one dream or another, trying to make my imagination tangible to others with the aid of smoke and mirrors. The thing which is draining me most intensely, but also, conversely, proving to be the most rewarding, is the ongoing creation of my 'The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill' album. This, for me, has been the most important task of the year. It is only now, after working on the album for a long time, that I'm beginning to understand exactly what it's real meaning is. At first, there was a general fishing around for direction and some songs I intially recorded for the project seemed to go off at too much of a tangent. I was searching for a style that might lend itself to my solo live performances on the forthcoming November dates. This approach, it turns out, was a mistake. I found that particular 'angle' less than satisfying for some reason. It just didn't feel as if I was hitting the right emotional target. It was only when I totally abandoned the idea of making these songs 'practical' (in live performance terms), that the sparks began to fly. The move away from performance oriented material to pure studio soundscapes opened the creative channels for me and I suddenly felt free of the 'keep it live' restraints I'd saddled myself with. Then, with the realisation that a 'theme' of sorts was presenting itself in a couple of the pieces, I struck out in an even more singularly defined direction. I made the decision to build the material around a symbolic nautical/coastal theme which put things into clearer perspective and, before long, the album's current title emerged from the mud. The use of ocean, shoreline, ship, lighthouse, harbour, pier and seaside fairground images seems, somehow, to manifest, or symbolise, my present emotional and metaphysical state of mind (and life's journey generally). These images also resonate with a romantic, nostalgic wistfulness which suits my current feelings of melancholy. They also demand a little more than the usual rock music vocabulary and tonal palette, something more epic, enigmatic and subtle. It was only when I totally abandoned the idea of making these songs 'practical' (in live performance terms), that the sparks began to fly. The move away from performance oriented material to pure studio soundscapes opened the creative channels for me and I suddenly felt free of the 'keep it live' restraints I'd saddled myself with. Then, with the realisation that a 'theme' of sorts was presenting itself in a couple of the pieces, I struck out in an even more singularly defined direction. I made the decision to build the material around a symbolic nautical/coastal theme which put things into clearer perspective and, before long, the album's current title emerged from the mud. The use of ocean, shoreline, ship, lighthouse, harbour, pier and seaside fairground images seems, somehow, to manifest, or symbolise, my present emotional and metaphysical state of mind (and life's journey generally). These images also resonate with a romantic, nostalgic wistfulness which suits my current feelings of melancholy. They also demand a little more than the usual rock music vocabulary and tonal palette, something more epic, enigmatic and subtle. The next turning point came when I decided to unify as many of the songs as possible by building them around orchestral textures, rather than the more usual rock music instrumentation. Some pieces go further with this premise than others, of course, but I've had to curb the temptation to please some of my audience by adding a veneer of guitar to pieces of music where no guitar veneer is required. One piece in particular immediately sounded less than it should have sounded simply because I overdubbed a guitar solo where it wasn't appropriate. You'd think that, by now, I'd not give such a thing a second thought but, for a brief and undisciplined moment, I almost turned a perfectly beautiful piece of music into a horrendous rock anthem, worthy of Queen or one of their ilk, simply by adding a 'rock out' guitar part, merely to elicit a predictable response from what I'd mistakenly thought of as 'the average listener'. I wiped it straight away after playing it back. Too easy, too cheap. I'm more than just a guitar player, damn it (and not much of a guitar player at that, in my opinion). This, I now realise, is not an album for the average listener. Nor is it a product for the average 'me', whatever that might imply. Just as I've had to abandon all pretext of ever performing this material live, I've had to also abandon any thought about what anyone else might make of it when it is eventually released. In fact, the ever sharper focus I'm bringing to bear on the music has made the creative process much more difficult and challenging. Despite this, it has proved to be an unusually rewarding, if somewhat time-consuming, exercise. There's now almost a hint of a concept album or opera about the project, 'though not in the usual linear story telling mode of such genres. The lyrics, in fact, are fairly minimal, quite direct but visually evocative. The visual dimension is reinforced by the music which has, in places, an epic 'largeness' that I hope will paint a suitable oceanic picture in the listener's mind. There's a very odd chemical marriage of antique and modern in the soundscapes of these pieces. I've made no attempt to rein in my sentimentality, my nostalgic yearnings and there's no deliberate stab at dissonance or commonplace minimalism. It's all richly romantic, densely textured, fantasy-fuelled writing that evokes the feel of old Hollywood or, better still, Golden Age British cinema, movies. BUT... at the same time, because of my lack of formal musical education, there's something else at work in the music, something that seems to exist apart from academic considerations of form, style and era. Simple but not minimalistic? Innocent but not naive? I don't really want to speculate too much in fear of driving the spirit of it away but... it's perhaps this intuitive element that gives the work an odd sort of quality. It feels, somehow, 'present'. I think this is simply because I'm writing from such a personal, idiosyncratic, untutored position. Stubbornly determined NOT to do what other's might prefer me to do or would advise me to do. Maybe this is music that no one else would want to make, (except me, of course). Maybe it's what's left on the table when everyone else has eaten and gone to bed. It's the residue of something already consumed, but a residue transformed into an entirely unexpected confection. A rich feast? Or maybe it's just warmed over scraps. For me, it is, at this moment in time, all consuming. I'm besotted with it and it refuses to let me rest. The hours I've given to it are never going to return to me. I've had moments of elation writing and recording this material, and moments of doubt and despair. It has not, by any stretch of the imagination, been an easy ride. Certainly not one of those albums that fall easily from the blue empty void onto the composer's table. I've yet to finish the project or even to listen to a possible sequence of tracks but, I'll hesitantly say that it is possibly one of the best things I've ever done. Of course, I reserve the right, being the artist, to damn it to hell at a later date if the wind changes direction. But, so far, I'm feeling that this is a wee bit special. Last week, however, a disasterous event: My plug in 24 track Mackie hard disc drive decided to shunt weeks of recorded work off into another dimension. I'd almost completed the recording of a new song, over which I'd laboured for four solid days, (a song that might possibly have provided the high spot of the album), when I turned off the recording equipment in the usual way. When I next turned it on, the hard drive showed no files present... basically a BLANK drive. I stared at the screen in utter disbelief. Where were all the songs? Weeks of work? AND my brand new supersong of which I'd felt so pleased? Also on the drive had been 'The Man Who Haunted Himself,' a song I'd already mixed down to DAT tape but which I'd decided needed a more considerate re-mix before it would be fit for the album. All this and more, it appears, vanished in a digital puff of smoke. I was absolutely gutted, depressed, heartbroken. Calls to my friend Paul Gilby got me connected to Mackie themselves who, after some over the 'phone prodding and probing, seemed to confirm that all was indeed lost. I then noticed that the hard disc recorder's real-time readout was showing that there was only 3 minutes 44 seconds of available recording time left on the empty drive. If the drive was truly empty, surely it would show more time available for recording than this? The Mackie techs then seemed to think that this might indicate that the song files were still present on the drive but that their index page had become corrupted, thereby making it impossible for the machine to open any particular song file. So... later this week, Paul is generously going to take the hard drive to a specialist company in London to see if the music files can be recovered. If so, I may get my precious material back and finish the song I felt would be so important to the new album. (And remix the 'Haunted' song.) Fingers crossed. If this process doesn't recover the apparently vanished songs, then I'll have to use the earlier mix of 'Haunted' and attempt a total re-recording of the new song I've lost. It won't be at all the same, however, as the original was so complex, so detailed, so full of 'happy accidents', that it would be impossible to reproduce exactly the same combination of magic and chance that created it in the first place. I can't evenn remember all the delicious melodies and counter-melodies that made up the orchestral sections of the piece, let alone reproduce all the minute adjustments to tone and timbre that each instrument had been subjected. The vocal performance was unique too, a product of time and place, never to be quite as convincing again Plus, the proper moment for its creation has now passed, my enthusiasm cruelly dampened and diminished by the original's loss. But we'll see... I've not completely given up hope yet. Since then, I've been working on the machine's internal drive and not risked using the malfunctioning external plug-in one. I've almost completed another new song. Not bad going, time wise. It's called 'Here comes The Sea (The Captain's Lament)'. Another big orchestral score and a few guitar parts scattered here and there, but nothing 'guitaristic', just appropriate colour where needed. No gratuitous applause seeking. The album's opening track will be a pure instrumental though, something to set up the correct atmosphere for the songs. This piece is called 'The Lighthousekeeper's Waltz' and has a sort of 'overture' effect. But enough talk of this. The album has already turned me into even more of an anti-social semi-recluse than usual. I need to get it finished and off my chest, clear the decks, (to use a nautical pun). I have stolen the odd day or two from my work to appear human, (although I'm told that I always appear distracted and distant on these occasions) My daughter Julia and my grandson Luke came up from London and we all went to a quite spectacular air show together. Absolutely terrifying... but thrilling. Took some camcorder footage for videogram use. Great to see Julia and Luke though... he's a real bright spark and a credit to Julia's patience and love. Also, my mother's 77th Birthday. Mum's such a gem and I'm a terrible son. I don't spend nearly enough time with my mother. Or my children. Or my wife. ('Though I have spent most of this bank holiday weekend attempting to take Emi out and about.) It's all music, bloody music. And very little else. Now... back to the mixing desk. Need to push on... I'm way behind schedule. 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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 William's Study (Diary Of A Hyperdreamer) December 2007 Jan Feb Apr May Jul Sep Oct Nov Monday 24th December 2007 -- 10:00 pm Some sad developments since my previous diary entry but I'll refrain from documenting them here and now. These things, because they are painful and difficult, must wait for a while. So...maybe next time? Well...next time. might be more sensible. But, tonight it is Christmas Eve and some light, no matter how feeble or flickering, should shine on my readers, no matter how dark my own corner of the universe might appear from this current vantage point. Zipping back in time a few weeks: Emiko and I had a lovely night out, at the start of this month, with the Nelsonica team at a favourite restaurant of ours in the city of York. It was the occasion of the annual Nelsonica 'thank you' dinner, a chance for us all to spend time in each other's company and enjoy a relaxing evening after the complex demands of this year's fanconvention. It was also an opportunity for the team to observe their (hopefully still) esteemed hero lowering his less than inpenetrable defences and succumbing to the dubious charms of Bacchus. Which simply means that I allowed myself to become more and more hopelessly and joyfully inebriated as the evening progressed. (Oh, vine-adorned Lord of the grape, forgive me, for I know EXACTLY what I do, and more's the pity.) As a modest token of thanks, I gave each member of the team an individually burned CDr of some brand new material that I'm considering for inclusion on my next album, 'SILVERTONE FOUNTAINS.' It's still, inevitably, a work in progress but this preliminary cdr has at least allowed them a glimpse of the ongoing process. I'm hoping to have the final track-listing completed in time for a late February release although this is entirely dependent upon me feeling that the album has reached its natural conclusion. Things could yet change quite dramatically as the music, and my imagination, is perpetually in flux. Frustratingly, during the last week or two, I've created three totally new instrumentals, all three of which are more than good enough to be considered as potential tracks for the album, (alongside the 16 tunes already on the short list). So, the project is growing, changing, slowly finding its way to its final conclusion. To saddle it with a contemporary cliche: It's an organic, ongoing process. All I can do is act as midwife. Some of the tracks will inevitably be set aside, probably for inclusion on next year's limited edition fan-convention album, whilst others will stay, (provided they belong to the 'Silvertone Fountains' atmosphere). As always, I'm more enthused about the latest pieces than the earlier ones. Despite the chopping and changing, (or even because of it), the album will, I think, turn out to be a very nice work. No, let's allow no false modesty, it will be a BEAUTIFUL work! Not long after the Nelsonica dinner, I succumbed to a nasty cold virus that has only now, two weeks later, begun to fade. Emi caught it too, (as I predicted), and she's had some uncomfortable nights, coughing and coughing and feeling totally wretched. This time of year is always busy for Emi and it's not the best time for her to feel ill. Not that there's ever a best time to feel ill. Despite the debilitating bugs, I have managed to deal with the Christmas shopping demands...at least to a standard that won't leave me feeling totally embarrased and inadequate. O.k...perhaps not QUITE as focussed as last year but, hopefully, not really letting anyone down. As mentioned in earlier diary entries, I do tend to take an inordinate amount of time searching for what I feel are the most appropriate gifts for my family and friends. I take a personal pride in this and get quite frustrated by having to make snap decisions because of lack of time. Unfortunately, despite all best intentions, time and circumstances have been against me, and more than ever this year. Predictably and pathetically, like many people of my generation, I'm beginning to wonder whether the original spirit of Christmas has finally been buried under the icy avalanche of commerce. The festive season seems to have become more and more stressful (and artificial) with each passing year. Yes, I know that such an opinion is regarded as a cliche and I also accept that it's probably always been that way, (despite those fantasy snow powdered dreamy Christmases of my first ten years on this earth...) But, what the heck. I STILL expect the impossible. I demand miracles and magic. But my life has already had more than its fair share of that. Anyway, shopping done, food in the fridge and freezer, lights lit in the lounge, gifts awaiting my fumbling at the wrapping paper. (And I must turn my attention to this last task SOON.) Still I sneak away from it all, up here to the broom cupboard that I'm audacious enough to call 'my studio,' to pick up a guitar and play. Plink, plonk, plink, strum, twang...Not for any great purpose, not for the 'latest' album or an adoring, paying audience, but simply because picking up the instrument, cradling it against my chest, feeling it resonate, hum and sing beneath my fingers, is the most satisfying, rewarding, and honest expression of being alive that I can muster. I pick up a guitar for no other reaon than the sheer JOY of doing so. Appears sad and pathetic written down like that, doesn't it? Well, dear reader, let me assure you that it's NOT. In fact it's magnificent, empowering, enobling, energising, ecsatatic and marvellous. I wouldn't exchange it for untold millions or the glamour and fame of a movie-star. (OR a wealthy rock star for that matter.) Despite all the hundreds of recordings I've made, there's more vibrant, essential music created in moments of spontaneity in this little room, than has ever found its way onto album, tape or hard disc. In those unrecorded, unplanned, ungaurded moments, it's just me and a guitar and the original mystic spark that united the two of us in the first place, back in 1958. For me, at 59 years old, there's simply no other reason to be doing this... Christmas every day, a birthday every hour, ice cream for breakfast and warm, warm lips for the kissing of... xxx A VERY MERRY YULETIDE TO ALL READERS OF THIS HYPERDREAMER'S DIARY! Top of page

Cinema Menu Christmas Greetings Enjoy these Christmas video gifts from Bill 'A Christmas Garland' - Christmas Video Card, 2024 'Bill's Christmas Guitar Shop' - Christmas Video Card, 2023 'Future Gothic Twang' - Christmas Video Card, 2022 An Electrical Christmas - 2021 72 Christmases On Planet Earth - 2020 The City Dreams Of Christmas - 2019 The Crystal Lights Of Christmastown - 2018 Variation On The Theme Of A White Christmas - 2017 Winterchyme Christmas - 2016 Christmas Guitars - 2015 A Guitar For Christmas - 2014 Yule Chime Dream - 2013 Silent Night - 2012 The Christmas Book - 2011 The Silver Bells Of Christmas Valley - 2008 Ghosts Of Christmas Past - 2007 Cinema Menu

Electrotype retrospective collection - 14 February 2001 Bill Nelson Collections Menu Future Past TRACKS: 01) Global Village - Dear Mr. Fantasy 02) Global Village - Long Grey Mare 03) Global Village - You Don't Love Me 04) Global Village - 598 Rundown 05) Global Village - Babe 06) Global Village - Stanley Blues Tail 07) Global Village - Keep Your Feathers Fine 1 08) Global Village - Country Season 09) Global Village - Keep Your Feathers Fine 2 10) Global Village - Young Eyes 11) Global Village - Batch #70172 12) Global Village - Summer Woman 13) Be Bop Deluxe - Riders Of My Love 14) Be Bop Deluxe - Jet Silver & The Dolls Of Venus 15) Be Bop Deluxe - Be-Bop-Bac 16) Be Bop Deluxe - If Stars Should Fall 17) Be Bop Deluxe - After The Stars 18) Be Bop Deluxe - So Insane And So In Love 19) Be Bop Deluxe - Night Creatures 20) Chris Coombs - Yesterday 21.1) Chris Coombs - Cold Tired And Hungry 21.2) (Unlisted Track) NOTES: Electrotype is an archive release taken from acetates and 2 track recordings made at Holyground Studios in Wakefield between 1968 and 1972 compiled by Mike Levon, who sadly passed away on 5 September 2011. For anyone who had read Nelson's personal reminiscences of his earliest somewhat amateur recordings and wondered what these various outfits sounded like, then this CD provides most of the answers. Coming with an informative and superbly illustrated booklet, that perfectly reflects the times when this music was made, Electrotype (together with Nelson's 1971 debut album Northern Dream ) tells the story of Nelson's formative years in wonderful detail. The inclusion of seven Be Bop Deluxe demos from 1972 (ignore the 1971 date claimed for some of these, as this is an error) should be enough to attract any Nelson fan but the entire collection is a fascinating glimpse of the Holyground years that fleshes out his formative years with tracks from Global Village and Be Bop Deluxe. The inclusion of 2 tracks by Chris Coombs on which Nelson guests is of interest to only those who have to own everything Nelson recorded. PAST RELEASES: None of this material was previously available. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: This collection can be purchased directly from Holyground ( http://www.holyground.co.uk/electrotype/ ). Collections Menu Future Past

The Love That Whirls Bill Nelson album - 25 June 1982 Albums Menu Future Past TRACKS: 01) Empire Of The Senses 02) Hope For The Heartbeat 03) Waiting For Voices 04) A Private View 05) Eros Arriving 06) The Bride Of Christ In Autumn 07) When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True 08) Flaming Desire 09) Portrait Of Jan With Flowers 10) The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God Department Store 11) Echo In Her Eyes (The Lamps Of Oblivion) 12) The October Man ALBUM NOTES: The Love That Whirls is album that mixes vocal and instrumental pieces issued on the Mercury label. It was recorded between April and November 1981 at Ric Rac Studios, Leeds, England and Rockfield Studios Monmouth, Wales. The album was Nelson's first full length album of songs since Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam , most of which was recorded in 1979. The album reached No. 28 in the UK charts and was promoted by the singles Eros Arriving and Flaming Desire , both of which briefly spent time in the UK Top 100 singles chart. The Love That Whirls represented a change in sound for Nelson's solo work when compared to his most recent previous output, as it featured a brightly polished production and a state of the art drum sound. All instruments were played by Nelson apart from "vibraslaps" on "Empire of the Senses" (played by Jan Nelson) and drums on "The October Man" (played by Bogdan Wiczling). When originally released on vinyl and cassette, the first 10,000 copies of The Love That Whirls came packaged with a limited edition free album, La Belle et la Bête , Nelson's second soundtrack work for the Yorkshire Actors Company. PAST RELEASES: The Love That Whirls was initially issued on CD on Cocteau (1986), and featured a remix of "Hope for the Heartbeat" in place of the vinyl version. For the Mercury reissue (2005), both mixes were included, with the remix as a bonus track. When issued on CD in the U.S. in 1989, fans were presented with an altered version of the album. Both the fan favorite "Empire of the Senses" and the single "Flaming Desire" were deleted from the original running order, while four songs from period singles were added. This was done in an effort to make sure the track listing on the independent (Enigma) CD reissue did not overlap with the CD of the major label (CBS) U.S. compilation album, Vistamix . 1989 U.S. CD of The Love That Whirls : 01 ) When The Birds Return (From the Sleepcycle club EP) 02) Hope For The Heartbeat (Remix from the U.S. promo single) 03) Waiting For Voices 04) A Private View 05) Eros Arriving 06) The Bride Of Christ In Autumn 07) Flesh (From the Eros Arriving double single) 08) He And Sleep Were Brothers (From the Eros Arriving double single) 09) When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True 10) Dancing On A Knife's Edge (From a club EP of the same name) 11) Portrait Of Jan With Flowers 12) The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God Department Store 13) Echo In Her Eyes 14) The October Man CURRENT AVAILABILITY: In 2005 Mercury reissued The Love That Whirls as a remastered CD, producing the definitive edition of the album, which is still available. The package was well presented with sleeve notes and photographs, and contains the original version of the album as released in 1982, together with five bonus tracks taken from singles issued contemporaneously with the album. Note that all of the bonus tracks on the Mercury had previously appeared on the Cocteau compilation The Two Fold Aspect of Everything (a collection that sorely deserves a reissue). Extra songs on the 2005 CD: 07) Flesh (Eros Arriving b-side) 08) He And Sleep Were Brothers (Eros Arriving b-side) 15) Haunting In My Head (Eros Arriving b-side) 16) Hope For The Heartbeat (remix) (promotional single) 17) The Passion (Flaming Desire b-side) BILL'S THOUGHTS: "Let me explain the title. It's actually based on a fact, rather than a poetic fantasy. It has two direct connections...the first is to the 'whirling dervishes.' These are Sufi dancers who use the whirling dance as a form of prayer and worship. They are taught to love everything and their whirling dance is an expression of that love and a means of attaining divine ecstasy. Hence 'The Love That Whirls.' "The other connection is to avant-garde film maker and occultist Kenneth Anger who, in 1949, made a film titled 'The Love That Whirls.' The film was destroyed by the film processing laboratory who took it upon themselves to judge the film 'obscene.' "So, you see, these things are not just random words...they are connected to certain things that interest me and inform the mood of the album." _____ "Ironically, "October Man" is one of the tracks from that album which has, for me, stood the test of time. (In that I can still play it live today without feeling as disconnected from it as much as some of the Be Bop stuff makes me feel). It somehow escapes that '80s stylistic thing. "Crystal Escalator", whilst quite different from "October Man" and difficult to perform live, retains, for me, a space-age, dub vibe which I still can listen to without embarrassment. It conjures up a certain art-deco department store in Leeds that I was familiar with in the 1950s, and the escalators that seemed so magical to me as a child." FAN THOUGHTS : Radium Girl: "I'm a bit lost for words actually, when I think about describing my feelings for The Love That Whirls . I find it very strange that it's so hard to express...being that it is one of my favorite albums ever recorded. Maybe that's it - it's so personal and the entire album, beginning to end is embued the most gorgeous sonically induced imagery...it feels like a very special gift that I was given from Bill. I haven't stopped listening to it since. An essential record for me." novemberman: "Yeah this is the album that made me change from having a passing interest in Bill Nelson to a fan. I still have my original vinyl copy complete with Belle et Bete , guess what I'll be playing tonight. 30 years old & a classic of its time!!" play my theremin: "I'm an admirer of Bill's songs, lyrics, and vocals ahead of his playing, exceptional though it is. I don't enjoy the Be Bop Deluxe stuff much perhaps for this reason. It seemed something happened around the time of The Love That Whirls that, for me, took him away from the band-member dynamic and let him flourish and mature as a singer/songwriter/producer, and he's gone from strength to strength in that...in my opinion, and there are too many favourite vocals to list." Parsongs: "Wow!! The drum machine was percolating and the e-bow was soaring. There was a lot of processing on these tracks, all done with a lot of taste. The marimba was a very unique touch as well. I had never heard the e-bow used so much or played so well. Bill is a natural with this device which is not easy to master - I can tell you from my own experience!!" paul.smith: "Empire of the Senses": "always grabbed me when I first bought the album - that vocal passage of 'sound' rather than words that goes up and down in a sort of falsetto style...very evocative and haunting." Andre: "Empire of the Senses": "has the wildest marimba solo you will ever hear." peterc62: "Empire of the Senses": "is a great song - I love the Marimba and Vibroslap sounds. This was the first BN album my wife admitted to liking which allowed me to bombard her with loads of other stuff." Iron Man No. 28: "Japanese director Nagisa Oshima had recently made the films In The Realm of the Senses (1976) and Empire of Passion (1978); Bill's title "Empire of the Senses" conflates the two." ChristianX: "This album has stayed with me and is part of who I am today. PS - Does anyone else cry when the guitar solo from "The October Man" kicks in at the end of The Love That Whirls or am I the only one? Gets me every time..." chromiumlad: "Sometime in 1985, I was 14 at the time, my uncle made me a tape of The Love That Whirls with the instructions "Play This Loud". I did many many many times. I still have that tape. Then the same uncle introduced me to Sylvian's 'Gone to Earth.' And a few years later when I got my first CD player I immediately (well as soon as I found them) bought The Love That Whirls , Sound on Sound , and Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam . I have been enthralled with Bill's work ever since." Chimera Man: "The Love That Whirls led to a fascination and loyalty that has lasted 33 years." Jet Silver: "This is the first (of quite a few) Bill Nelson album I ever purchased. On the strength of hearing one song on the radio and the intriguing cover image, imagine my surprise upon getting it home to discover a second album of instrumental music as well as a sheet of 'Cocteau Records' related merchandise to procure, (if only I had...). The music inside the cover of course was worth thrice the price of admission and was a touchstone to a musical world that has become far more richer and wonderful than I could have ever imagined 30 years ago." Albums Menu Future Past

Cinema Menu Bill Nelson Videos A collection of videos Bill has created for his music, with a couple of 'guest' videos that Bill enjoys. The Studio Tour Here's a video showing a walk around Bill's studio in intimate detail... It features the tracks 'The Raindrop Collector' and 'A Perfect Night - The Dawn Rejoices'. September 2018 Video and music by Bill Nelson Drive This Comet Across The Sky 'Drive This Comet Across The Sky' is an album now available to download from Bandcamp. It's an album with a number of rock-pop songs on it and a single instrumental track. Here is a simple little video I've made to give you a preview of the title track. Hope you enjoy it! Bill Nelson, January 2018 Video and music by Bill Nelson Instromix Created in October 2017, 'Instromix' includes manipulated photographs and images to the backing of five fantastic guitar -based instrumental tracks Video and music by Bill Nelson The Awakening Of Dr. Dream The title track from the 2017 album 'The Awakening Of Dr. Dream' Video and music by Bill Nelson Hyperluminal From the 2016 album 'Perfect Monsters' Video and music by Bill Nelson Only A Dream But Nevertheless From the 2015 album 'Plectrajet' Revisiting Wakefield and the ruins of memory... A personal odyssey through the decaying landscape of my past Video and music by Bill Nelson The Boy Who Lived In The Future Taken from the 2013 album 'The Sparkle Machine', this video was premiered at the Hepworth Gallery concert in Wakefield in September 2013 Video and music by Bill Nelson Albion Dream Vortex The title track from the 2013 album 'Albion Dream Vortex' Featuring Bill's photography throughout the years Video and music by Bill Nelson Let's Dance This track from the 2012 album 'Return To Tomorrow' is Bill's cover of the Chris Montez hit. Julian Hanford has done a fantastic job of coupling the music to a dance sequence from the 1969 Universal Pictures film 'Sweet Charity'. Music performed by Bill Nelson, written by Jim Lee Film footage by Bob Fosse Video produced by Julian Hanford Model Village Take a trip with Bill around some of his favourite Yorkshire Landscapes. Featuring the tracks 'Windmill Interlude' and 'Cross Country', from his 2011 album 'Model Village' Video and music by Bill Nelson The Golden Days Of Radio From the 2009 album 'Fancy Planets' Video and music by Bill Nelson Once I Had A Time Machine Taken from the 2008 album 'Golden Melodies Of Tomorrow', this video was premiered at the Songs For Ghosts launch party in October 2017 Video and music by Bill Nelson Young Dreams Whirled Away From the 2008 album 'Silvertone Fountains' Video and music by Bill Nelson Astron From the 2007 album 'Secret Cub For Members Only' Video and music by Bill Nelson The Ceremonial Arrival Of The Great Golden Cloud From the 2005 album 'The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill' Music written and performed by Bill Nelson Video produced by Julian Hanford incorporating footage from various sources Be Bop Deluxe In The South Of France Footage shot by Bill during the recording of the Drastic Plastic album in 1977. The material remained unseen until Bill found it, digitised it and made this film...first shown during the 'Be Bop and Beyond' tour of 2004 Video and music by Bill Nelson Pink Buddha Blues Taken from the 1995 album 'Practically Wired (Or How I Became Guitar Boy)'. The music is Bill's, but the video sequence isn't... However, Bill very much approves of the video, which is why it is featured here in the Essoldo Cinema. Music by Bill Nelson Video uploaded by Zastava Flaming Desire From the classic 1982 album 'The Love That Whirls' Music and video by Bill Nelson Do You Dream In Colour? A very well spruced up video of this classic single from the 1981 album 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam' Video and music by Bill Nelson Cinema Menu

A B C D F H I J K E G L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ A - Z Song List Discography Menu A A Ablaze With Glory Abstracted Acceleration Acceleration (Dub Version) Acceleration (Long Version) Accessio Lucis (The Coming Light) Accordion Night The Ache At The Heart Of The World Aching Heart Acquitted By Mirrors Acquitted By Mirrors (Demo) Adventure Annual Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape (BBC Studio Version) Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape (Decca Studio Version) Aeolian Magic (Blip No 9) Aeroplane Mind Aeroplane Wings The Aerostatic Balloonist After All These Years After Life After Midnite (Twang, Echo And Hoedown) After The Rain, Pick The Fruit After The Stars Age Of Reason Airmail Guitar Albion Dream Vortex Alchemia The Alchemy Of Ecstasy Alice In The Palace Of Stardust And Pearl Aliumesque All Aboard The Skylark All A Dream, After All All Alone In A Boat Of His Own All Dressed Up In Your Art School Clothes All Hail The Dreamer (Miss Futurama Smiles) All Hail The Happy Captain All Hail The Witching Hour All I Am Is You All My Wives Were Iron All Our Yesterdays All's Well In Wonderland All That I Remember All The Fun Of The Fair All These Days Are Gone (For Ian) All The World Flies Kites Tonight All This And A Girl Like You All You Need To Know The Almost Invisible Man Almost Unchanging Aloha Niagra Alone In A Lunar Light Altar Natives Always And Everywhere Always Looking Forward To Tomorrow Always Summer Always You Amazing Things Ambiguity American Moderne Ampex Eight Ampex Eleven Ampex Five Ampex Four Ampex Nine Ampex One Ampex Seven Ampex Six Ampex Ten Ampex Three Ampex Twelve Ampex Two Ampex Xtra An Acre Of Sunshine Ancient Angels Watching Me Ancient Guitars And All The World Was Ours And Now The Rain And The Train Left The Station Trailing Sparks And Stars And There I Am And We Fell Into A Dream Andromeda Gardens An Electrical Christmas The Angel At The Western Window Angel In My System Angel Like You The Angel Of Hearth And Home Angels In Arcadia Angels Obey Bells The Angel With Television Eyes Annunciation Another Day, Another Ray Of Hope Another Happy Thought (Carved For Ever In Your Cortex) Another Kiss For Your Slender Neck Another Luxury Wonder Moment Another Planet Another Rainy Day Another Slice Of Wonder Cake Another Tricky Mission For The Celestial Pilot Another Willingly Opened Window Antennae Two Antique Gods Antique Interiors Antoria Aphrodite Adorned Appolinaire Apollonian Tremolo Apple Tree Swing Aqua Celeste Aqua Magica Arbor Philosophica (Tree Of Philosophy) Archetypes Arco Volta Ardent Hands Are You Listening? Arising Arrangement Of Roses Art Deco Dance Art/Empire/Industry Art For Art's Sake Artifex Art Is Long And Time Is Fleeting Artismo Loco Art Is My Aeroplane The Art Of Thinking Ashes Of Roses Art Of Vision As If It Was A Moment Ago As Quickly As A Kiss As The Stars Began To Glow Astra The Astral Tramways Of England Astro-Astoria Astro-Coaster Astro Logic Astroluxe Astron The Astronomy Of The Heart Astrophysical The Asylum At Home In High Clouds At The Center At The Gates Of The Singing Garden Atlantika The Atom Age The Atom Age (Demo) Atom Blasted Cadillac Atom Man Loves Radium Girl Atoms And Electrons Atom Shop (Is Closing) Atoms, Neutrons, Strangeness And Charm Atoms Orbit Around The Sun The Attempted Murder Of Jane Attempt To Re-Assemble My Fragmented Self Aura Hole Auraville Autosexual Autosexual (Demo) Autumn And Spring The Autumn Balloonist Autumn Drowns Apples In Golden Tides Autumn Fires Autumn Noodle No.1 Autumn Stars Autumn Tram (Yorkshire Raga No.2) Autumn Vapours Awakening The Awakening The Awakening Of Dr Dream Away Axe Victim Axe Victim (BBC Studio Version) Axe Victim (Decca Studio Version) Axe Victim (First Version) Axiomata Azure Extension Babe Baby Buddha Baby Robot Baby Ruth's Big Special Back Of Beyond Back To Dreams Bakelite (The 50th Birthday Song) Ballyboots Bamboozled Banal Barely There Batch # 70172 Bats At Bedtime BC1675 Beach Hut Beauties Beam Service Beams Of Light The Beast In Solitude Beatniks From Outer Space Beat Street The Beat That Can't Go Wrong Today Beautiful Big Boobies Beautiful Diamonds Are Falling From The Clouds The Beautiful Machine Beautiful Nudes Beauty And The Beast Beauty Enters The Castle Beauty In A Sparkly Bra Beauty Lifts Her Skirts Beauty Rides The Last Bus Home Beauty Secrets Beauty Secrets (First Version) Be-Bop-Bac Because Of You Beep, Beep, Beep Before We Fall Begin To Burn Be Here Now Behold Dumb Wonders Behold These Present Days Being And Nothingness Land The Bel-Air Rocketman A Bell Awakened Bell Bird Bell Weather (Blip No 2) The Bells Of Villefranche Bells Ring Sweet Across The Meadow Be My Dynamo Beneath Her Dappled Apple Tree Bending A Knee At The Altar Of Sacrifice The Best Of You A Better Home In The Phantom Zone A Better Home In The Phantom Zone (Demo) Between Autumn And Winter Between The Seasons Between The Worlds (Album Version) Between The Worlds (Single Version) Beyond All This Beyond Recall Beyond The Sun Beyond These Clouds The Sweetest Dream Beyond Yonder Bicycle Building Big Blue Day Big Broken Buick Big Empty Sky The Big Illumination Big Noise In Twangtown Big River Big Ship Big Yellow Moon Bikini Avanti Bill's Blues (Live) Bill's Last Waltz Billy And The High Blue Horizon Billy Beyond (Everyone's Clean In Paradise) Billy Builds The World Of Tomorrow Billy Infinity Billy's Blues Billy's Holiday Binky And The Dancing Astronomers Binky's Blues The Bird Charmer's Destiny The Bird Charmer's Destiny (First Version) Birdie A Bird Of The Air Shall Carry Thy Voice Bird Ornaments Birds And Blue Stuff Birds In Blue Sky Again The Birds In The Sky Say Hi! Birds In Two Hemispheres Birds Of Tin Bittersweet Black Fish/Silver Pond Blackpool Pleasure Beach And The Road To Enlightenment Blaze Ye Now The Golden Trail Blazing Apostles Blazing Apostles (BBC Studio Session) The Blazing Memory Of Innuendo Bless Me, Bless You Blimps Blink Of An Eye Blink-Agog Bliss And Abyss Blonde And Built To Last The Blossom Tree Optimists Bloo Blooz Blood Off The Wall Blowin' The Dust Off The Book Of The Future Blown Away Blue Amorini Blue As A Jewel Blue As A Jewel (Demo) Blue Beams Blue Cloud Blue Dawn Blue Distant Stars Blue Loop No.1 Blue Loop No.2 Blue Nude Blues For A Broken Time Machine Blues For Orpheus Blue Skies Listen, The Unstruck Bell Blue Sky Blue Sky Seeks Red Guitar Blue Sparks Flying Blue Spin Bluesy Ruby (BBC Studio Session) Bluesy Ruby (Decca Studio Session) The Blue Taint B-Movie Bug Boy A Boat Named St. Christopher Boat To Forever Body Of Light Boom Year Ahead Boy Chases Butterfly Boyhood Rockets Boyhood Shadows The Boy Pilots Of Bangkok The Boy Who Knew The Names Of Trains The Boy Who Learned Everything The Boy Who Lived In The Future Boy With Bubblepipe Bramble Brave Flag The Breath In My Father's Saxophone The Bride Of Christ In Autumn Bride Of The Atom Bridge Across The Void Bright And Glittering (Blip No 6) Bright Magic Bright 'N Breezy Bright Sparks Bright Star (Moonlight Over Ocean Blue) A Brilliant Night For Rain Bring Back The Spark Bringers Of Lights To The Feast Broadcast News (Theme From Right To Reply) Broken Broken Blues Bronze The Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters Brutal Tinkerbell Bubbledreamer Bubbles In The Cosmos Bubbling Blue Buddha And The Rain Cloud The Buddha Boys A Buddha For My Brother Buddha Head Buddha's Eyes Are Everywhere Buddha Smoked My Cigarettes Bugging Me Bumpcycle Burning Down The Burning Question Burning The Grove Of Satyrs Burnished The Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Of The Forever Bee Buzz Was Honey B B The Cabinet Closes California Boombox Caligari Disciplines Cesare Caligari Feeds Cesare Caligari Opens The Cabinet Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over Call Of The Wild Candelabra And Gargoyles Candyland Capricious Skies Captain Future's Psychotronic Circus The Captain's In The Wheelhouse (Fabled Quixote) Carnival The Carousel Of Time Cascade (Improvisation For Three Harp Guitars) Cassidy's Electric Campfire Song The Castle The Celestial Bridegroom Celestial East The Celestial Steam Locomotive The Celestial Travelator Celestina Swoons Celestrum Celluloid Ghosts The Century That Dared To Dream The Ceremonial Arrival Of The Great Golden Cloud Certain Circles A Certain Thought Passed Through My Mind Cesare The Somnambulist Chameleon Channel Surfing Chapel Of Chimes The Charm Of Transit A Charming Trick Chelsea Flash Chiffon Child Of The Dream Chills For You Chiming Church With Rusty Bell Chiming Shires The Chinese Nightingale A Christmas Cowboy Outfit The Christmas Gift Christmastide Christ Via Wires Chroma Chymepeace (An Ending) Cimbercom Cinnamon And Mint Circle The World In A Paper Canoe Circo Infantil Circular Tour A Circus To Remember The City Dreams Of Christmas City Of Tomorrow City One Clavis Angelicae (Key Of Angels) Clear Controls Confirmed Clear Skies A' Coming Climbing Clock Conscious The Clock That Time Forgot Clocks Wind Slow The Clockwork Light Machine The Clockwork Rocket Close Your Eyes (The Sleepytown Symphony) Clothed In Light Amongst The Stars The Clouded Mirror The Cloud Of Unknowing Clouds Above The Corn Clouds Drift North Cloudwater Canal Cloudy Billows Kiss The Moon Coastal Starlight Coasting Cold Tired And Hungry The Colonel Has An Anti-Decimal Scheme Colossal Figures Shrouded In Clouds Colour Floods The Bay With Blue Come Closer And See My Dreams Come To Me In My Dreams Comic Cuts Complicated Coney Island Confessions Of A Psychedelic Dandy Confused The Conjurer's Companion (Every Blessed Thing Is So Damned Fragile) Consolamentum Consolation Street Contemplation (Original ABM EP Version) Contemplation (Album Version) Contemplation (Redux 2007) Contrary Wise Cool Blue Heaven Coop's Place The Corridor Corrosive Cosmic Country Ghosts A Cottage On The Moon Country Cola Country Season Covered In Chrome The Cowboy Club Cowboy Christmas Cowboy Song Crazy Dreamer Crazy Right Now Creamy Clouds Cremona Crimsworth Cross Country Crying All Night Crying To The Sky Crying To The Sky (Alternate Guitar Solo) Crying To The Sky (BBC Studio Session) Crying To The Sky (First Version) The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God Department Store Crystal Gazing Crystal Gazing (Alternate Vocal Version) The Crystal Gazing Room (No Sleep For The Alchemist) The Crystal Lights Of Chrismastown Crystal Springs C-Shell Cubical Domes The Curate's Cassock Is Troubled By The Breeze Curate's Egg In Cup Of Grass Curiosity's Domain The Curious King Of Dreams The Cycle Factory Cyclebumps C C D Dada Guitare Daily Bells Dali's Dream Of Venus Dance, Mighty Robot, Dance! Dance Of The Anti-Gravity Enthusiasts Dance Of The Cosmic Signaller No. 2 Dance Of The Fragrant Woman Dance Of The Luminous Dials Dance Of The Mullard Valvemen Dance Of The Orchard Angels Dance Of The Pagan Energy Ghosts Dance Of The Sonic Culture Gods Dance Of The Uncle Sam Humanoids Dancing In The Moonlight (All Alone) Dancing In The Wind Dancing Music Dancing On A Knife's Edge Dangerous Lady Dangerous Stranger Dangerous Stranger (Demo) The Darcey Bussell Rubberwear Fantasia Dark And Bright Dark And Complicated Dark Angel Dark Eyes Dark Horse Dark Is The Spark Darkness (L'Immoraliste) Darkness Sparkles The Darkness Will Remain Darling Star Daughter Of Dream Come True A Day At West Acre Daydreaming The Day I Dreamed You Up Day Of Eternity Days Of Golden Dreams Days Of Wonder The Day That Came And Went Dazzle (Blip No 10) The Dead We Wake With Upstairs Drums Dear Mr. Fantasy December Days-Diamond Bright December Waltz Decimal Point For The Thousand Races Decline And Fall Decode Me Baby Deco Super Cruiser Deep December (Bright And Shiny Day) Deep Dream Decoder Deeply Dazzled Deep Sky Demon Raising The Departure Of The 20th Century In A Hail Of Memory Designer Dance De Soto Deva Dance Devil In Me The Difficulty Of Being Dig The Sparkles A Dip In The Sparkle Jar A Dip In The Swimming Pool Reactor Dippety-Doo Disneyland After Dark Disposable Dissolve Distant Town With Different Lights Distant Years From Now The Divine Raptures Of Sisterhood The Diving Bell Dizzy In The Head A Dizzy Spell Django Dreams Of Twinkleland Doctor Caligari The Doctor Was An Alchemist Dog Day Afternoon Domain Of Echo Don't Be A Stranger Don't Cry, Space-Guy Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) (BBC Session) Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) (Demo) Don't Wait The Door Do Space Trams Dream Of Fictitious Passengers? The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers) Down Comes The Rain Downhill Down On Terminal Street Do You Dream In Colour? The Drawing Room Dreamboat Situation Dream Car Romantics (In Death's Garage Antics) Dream Cities Of The Heart Dream Cycles One Dream Cycles Three Dream Cycles Two The Dream Dance Of Jane And The Sonambulist Dreamed Embraces A Dream For Ian A Dream Fulfilled Dreamgirl Dream Guitar Dreaming Of A Girl Dreaming Of Another World Dreamland Avenue Dreamland Illuminated The Dreamlike Day-To-Day Dreamlike World Dreamnoise And Angel Dream Of An American Streetcar Dream Of Imperial Steam A Dream Of Thee (Blip No 3) The Dream Of The Unified Field Dreams And Smoke (Flow With The River) Dream Ships Set Sail Dreams Of Yesterday Dreams Returning To The Night Dreams Run Wild On Ghost Train Tracks Dreamstate USA Dreamster 2.L.R. Dreams (The Merchant Sleeps) Dreams Turn To Dust Dreamsville The Dreamsville Poetry Experiment Dreamt I Was Floating In A Summer Sky Dream Up, Billy Drift Fictions Drift Of Narcissus Drive Shaft Drive This Comet Across The Sky Driving Through England Dr Synth's Disco Demento Duality Duane's Dream The Dubious Virtue Of Loveliness Duende Dumb Palooka Dumb-World Duraflame The Dusk Before The Dark Dust And Sunbeams And The Ticking Of A Clock The Dust That Falls From Dreams Dynatron Dynatron Blues D E E Earthbound Eastern Electric Ecclesia Gnostica Echoes Of The Age Echo In Her Eyes (The Lamps Of Oblivion) The Echo, The Shadow, The Empty Shell The Ecstatic Transfiguration Of The Great Northern Twang Magus Ectoplasm Turbine Edge Of Nothing Edge Of Recall Edge Of Tears Edge Of The World El Swingo Collapso Electric Atlanta Electric Milkcart Blues Electric Railway Overhead Electric Trains, Clean Oceans, Clear Skies, Pure Air Electrical Adepts Of The Celestial Bed Electrical Language Electrical Language (Demo) The Elegant Outsider The Elegant Parabola Elevated Railway Elliptic Waterfall Emak Bakia The Embarkation Song Of The Last Fast Airship Emerald City The Emperor Of The Evening Emphatically Yours Empire Of The Senses Emptiness Sings (A Lonely Boy) The Enchanted Cathedral The Enchanted Glove The Enclosed Garden Endless Autumn Endless Orchids Endless Summer Ahead Endless Torsion End Of The Seasons End Of The Future Enigmatron Enlightenment Erectoplasm Eros Arriving Eros Ghost Trails Gleaming Echoes Eros In Autumn Erotikon Escape Over The Rooftops Escondido Oleander Essoldo Stripshow The Eternal Fascinator The Eternal Female Eternal For Emiko Eternal Lightbulbs (For The Infinite Stars) Eternally Ethel's Attic (No.3, Marriot's Building, 1948) Evening Adoration Evening Illuminator The Evening Peal Evening Star Electric Park Evening Tide Ever The Dreamer Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug Everyday Is A Better Day Everyday Now Is Forever Again Every Moment Infinite Everyone's Hero Everything Changes With The Weather Everything Everywhere Everything Is Ancient Now Everything Permitted Every Tiny Atom Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood Exactly The Way You Want It Existentialism Experimental Erotica (Scene One) Experimental Erotica (Scene Two) The Experimental Time Traveller The Exquisite Corpse The Eye Of Heaven Shines F Fables Of The Future The Fabulous Foals Of Faraway Farm The Fabulous Fountain Of Your Savoir Faire The Fabulous Mr Futurismo The Fabulous Whirlygig Of Now A Face In The Mirror Face In The Rain Fading Away The Fading Light Faint Aroma Of Snow Fair Exchange Fair Winds And Flying Boats Fair Winds And Steam Machines The Fairground Fairyland Before The Fire Falling Blossoms Falling Into Blue Falling Water False Alarms Familiar Spirit The Family Fancy Planets Fantasmatron Fantasmo Loop The Fantastic Futurama Ride Fantastic Guitars Fantastico Far Beyond The West Of Me Far Side Of Nowhere Far Too Flip Fascinating Noise Fear (The Merchant Wakes) Fearless Beauty (Kisses And Cream) Feast Of Lanterns Feeling Floating Away Feels Like Up To Me Fellini's Picnic Female Form Female Nebula Fever Dream Of The Starlight Man The Fields Beyond 15th Of July (Invisibles) (BBC Studio Session) Filament Filigree Filigree Balcony The Final Curtain Finis Gloria Mundi Finks And Stooges Of The Spirit Fire Gods Of The National Machine Fires In The Sky First Boy On The Moon First Memory Fish Are Dancing In The Fountain Of Dreams Fish Owl Moon Five Flying Horses 598 Rundown Flaming Creatures Flaming Desire Flesh Flicker And Fade Flights Of Fancy Flipside Float Away Flower Kiosk Flowers And Stars Flowers Within (Version 2) The Flower Thief Fluffy Bunny Business Flutterbye (Blip No 7) Flux Of Desire Fontaine Fontana Footsteps Footsteps In Rain Forbidden Lovers Forbibben Lovers (First Version) Forever Ago Forever Blue Sings The Sky Forever Orpheus Forevertron Forked Tongues, Mixed Blessings Forms In Open Spaces For Stuart (Triumph And Lament) Fortune Favours The Fall Guy Forward Motion For You And I For Young Moderns For Young Moderns (Demo) Found In Foreverland A Fountain In The Middle Of Nowhere Fountains Are Singing In Cities Of Light The Four Square Citadel Fractious Electrons Frankie Surfs The Milky Way Frankie Ukelele And The Fire In The Lake French Promenade Friday In The Future Friends From Heaven From Another Place From Another World From Here To Far Orion Frost-O-Matic Frosty Lawns (Snowballs And Oranges) Fruity Ornaments Full Colour Fontana Full Of Desire Full Sail The Fundamental Blues The Funeral Furniture Music Furniture Music (BBC Session) Furniture Music (Demo) Futura Future Gothic Twang The Future Life The Future Now Becomes The Past The Futurian Futurist Manifesto Fuzz Rocket Fantasia Fuzzy Dux F G Garage Full Of Clouds 2 The Garden Garden In The Sky Garden Of Cascades Garden Railway A Garden That Sings To The Sky The Gates Gathered In At Gloaming Gazing Through Golden Windows Gentle Spirits Prevail Get Out Of That Hole The Ghost In The Machine Ghostland Ghost Of Gilded Ruin Ghosts Behind Glass Ghosts Dance In Ghostland Ghost Show Ghosts Of Ancient Houses Ghosts Of Ancient Orchestras Ghosts Of Invisible Things Ghosts Of The Space Age Ghosts Of Utopian Cities Ghosts Wind The Parlour Clock Ghost Train Ghost Trains Travel On Phantom Tracks Giant Hawaiian Showboat The Gift Gift Of The August Tide Girlfriend In Mini-Skirt Girlfriend With Miracles Girl From Another Planet Girl From A Satellite Town The Girl I Never Forgot The Girl In The Galaxy Dress The Girl In The Glass Aeroplane The Girl In The Park In The Rain The Girl On The Fairground Waltzer The Girls I've Loved The Girl Who Disappeared Into A Cloud The Girl Who Was Electrically Carried Away Give A Damn My Dear Giving It All Away The Glance Of A Glittering Stranger The Glass Breakfast Glass Fish (For The Final Aquarium) Gleaming Without Lights The Gliding Club Glisten Glittering Figures (A Gnostic Lullaby) Glittering Rails Glittering Star Gloria Mundae The Glory Days Glow World Gnosis God Bless Me God Glows Green In Small Town Park God In Her Eyes God Man Slain God's Own Neighbourhood The Gods Speak God Thundered Boy The Gold At The End Of My Rainbow The Gold Beyond The Blue Golden The Golden Age Again Golden Balloon The Golden Bough Golden Coda (Farewell To Electric City) The Golden Comet The Golden Days Of Radio Golden Dream Of Circus Horses Golden Girl The Golden Hour Golden Melodies Of Tomorrow Golden Mile Golden Moments The Golden Roundabout Rides Again Golden Satellites Golden Shrine The Golden Soul Of You Golden Spacemen Rock N' Roll Gondola Goodbye Golden Sands Gooseberry Jam Grand Arcade The Grand Magician Brings A Blessing The Great Hall The Great Magnetiser Great Plains Green Tiger In The Gold Greeting A New Day Greetings From Surf Guitar Island A Guitar For Christmas G H Haiku Detour (Bop Kyoto) Half Asleep In A Hall Of Mirrors (Theme From Dream Demon) Half-Man, Half-Static Halogen Hammertheme Hang This Moment On A Sigh Hank And Duane In Reverbland Hank Marvin Goes To Mars Happily Addicted To You The Happy Clock Happy In My Helicopter Hat Happy Little Hovercar Happy Realms Of Light Happily Haunted Hard Facts From The Fiction Department Hastening The Chariot Of My Heart's Desire A Hat Like This Haunting In My Head A Head Full Of Lights And A Hat Full Of Haloes Heading For Home In A Hillman Minx Headlamp Moon He And Sleep Were Brothers Heart And Soul Heartbeat Thru The Telephone Heartbreakland The Heart Has Its Reasons The Heat In The Room Heaven Holds A Grand Parade Heaven Is A Haunted Realm Heaven Is A State Of Mind Heaven Lights Its Lamps Heavenly Homes Heavenly Homes (Flashman Remix) Heavenly Message Number One Heavenly Message Number Three Heavenly Message Number Two Heaven's Happy Hemisphere Heaven Takes No Prisoners Helios In Memoryland Hello Children Hello, Hello Hello You Beautiful People Help Us Magic Robot Henrietta Through The Looking Glass Heptarchia Here And Now Here Come The Rain Comets Here Comes Mr. Mercury Here Comes The Big Blue Moon Here Comes The Sea Here I Am, (And You Can Hear Me) Here I Am For You Here Is Where I Dream Here On Earth Here We Go Her Laughing Torso Hermetica Automatica The Hermetic Garden Heros De Lumiere Her Presence In Flowers Herself With Her Shadow Hers Is A Lush Situation Her True And Perfect Serpent Her True And Perfect Serpent (Acoustic Version) Hey, Bill Diddley! Hey Ho, There You Go The Hidden Flame Hide And Seek Hieronymous Bosch Beyond High And Mighty High Beam Sensation Highway 2000 Hi Lo La Hip-No-tize The Hipster Gimmick His Astral Form Hi-Tone Saturday Hold On To Your Heart Holey Moley It's A Parallel World Holiday Express A Holiday In Dimension X Hollywood Still Burning Holy Of Holies (Waiting For The Night) The Home, The Light And The Third Honeybee In Autumn Honey Loop Honeymoon On Mars Hope For The Heartbeat Horse Eats Hat Hostess Twinkie Vapourised Hotel On Wheels Hot-Rod Racer The House At The End Of Memory Lane The House Of A Hundred Clocks The House Of Morpheus House Of Mystery House Of Sand Howlin' Wolf In Me How Many Miles To Babylon How Near We Are Humming In The Void/Girl With The Thousand-Watt Smile The Hunt Hymn Of The Old Albion Co-Operative Society Hyperluminal Hypnos H I I I Always Knew You Would Find Me I Am The Captain I Am The Only Monster Here I Am The Universe Ian's Radio Is On Ice And Fire Icing On The Cake Iconography I Danced In A Dream (Blip No 11) Ideal Homes I Dream Of Giant Telescopes I Dream Of Lightning I Dream Of Waves I Drift Away Amongst The Stars If I Was The Pilot Of Your Perfect Cloud If Love Were Gold If Stars Should Fall If Wishes Were Horses I Hear Electricity I'll Be Everywhere I'll Be Your Vampire The Ilfracombe Steamer Illuminated At Dusk Illuminated Promenade Illuminated Sky With Pale Blue Lightning Illumination Fascination Blues The Illuminator Illusions Of You I Looked At The Sea Imaginary Music I'm Dancing The Impatient Hour Imperial Parade Imps In The Undergrowth In A Cloud Of Stars In A Haunted Arcade In An Aeroplane In Anticipation In Arcadia In A Streamlined World In A World Of Strange Design Incident At Astral Motel The Indelicate Levitation Of Katie's Skirts Indigo Trees Hold Back The Stars Indiscretion Indoor Astronomy (Bella Luna) In Dreams Awake Infernal Apparatus The Infernal Machine Infernal Regions Infinite Station Infinity Meets The Moment Initiation Of The Heart's Desire Insanity In Search Of The Golden Sound Instantly Yours Intensia Interlooper Interstellar Courier An Interval In The Chapel Of Her Sparkles In The Forest Of Storms In The Land Of Far Beyond In The Land Of Nothing Doing In The Middle Of A Dream In The Neighbourhood Of Normal (My Style Of Writing) In The Palace Of Strange Voltages In The Rain In The Realm Of Bells In The Realm Of The Super-Cute In The Realms Of The Unreal In The Wings Into The Luminous Future The Invisible City Of Christian Rosenkruetz The Invisible Man And The Unforgettable Girl The Invisible Spectator The Invisible Venus Of New York City I Oil The Ticking Of Antique Clocks I Really Don't Exist I Recall Jets At Dawn I Remember Circus Boy I Remember Marvelman I Saw Galaxies I Saw You In A Sailplane I Send These Dreams To You Islands In The Sky Islands Of The Dead Islands Of The Dead (Demo) Islands Of The Dead (Take 4) Is This Alchemy? I Swear That The Girl In The Painting Moved It Just Doesn't Rain Like It Used To I Travel At Night It's A Big World And I'm In It (The Great Rememberer) It's A Comic Book World It's All True It's A Long, Long Story It's A Long Time Between Dreams It's Always Maybe It's A Simple Life It's OK I Wait For You I Want You I Was Speaking With Orson Welles I Watch The World I Wonder J J Jane Discovers Cesare Japan Japan (Demo) Jazz Jazzy Loop Jean Cocteau Jericho's Armband Counsel Jet Pack Jive Jets At Dawn (Single Version) Jets At Dawn (Album Version) Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus (Electrotype Version) Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus (Axe Victim Version) Jet Town The Jewel Jimi Sifts The Sands Of Time The Jingler The Jitters Jollytown Junc-Sculpture Junk The Funk Jupiter Commander Just A Kid And All That Sky K K Kaleidoscopic Windows Karma Kisses Katharos Katstatik Keep Your Feathers Fine (Version One) Keep Your Feathers Fine (Version Two) Keep Your Telescope Focussed On The Stars Kid Flip And The Golden Spacemen The Kid With A Cuckoo Clock Heart Kid With Cowboy Tie Killing My Desires A Kind Of Loving Kinda Fuzzy The King And Queen Of Now Or Never Kingdom Of The Sky King Frankenstein King Of The Cowboys The Kingdom Of Consequence Kirkella Bells Kiss Goodbye Kiss It Off Kiss Me Goodnight, Captain Marvel The Kiss Of History Kiss Of Light A Kiss Recalled Kiss You Slow Kitchenette Konny Buys A Kodak Koolerator Kut Up In Cartoonsville L L Lacuna Ladders Leading Nowhere Ladies Removing Lingerie Lady You're A Strange Girl Lagoon Lakeside Lampdownlowland The Lamplighter's Lament The Lamp Of Invisible Light Lamps Are Lit In The Land Of Tomorrow The Land Of Dreams Is Closed The Land Of Lost Dreams The Land Of Lost Time Language Of The Birds Lanterns Are Lighting The Last Lamplighter (For John Henry Griffiths) The Last Romantic The Last Summer For Dancing The Last Transmission The Latest Delay The Latest Skyline Late Transmission: This Song Is History Laughing Sailors, Raging Seas La Vie Moderne Lay-Zee Boy Receiver Lazy, Lazy Bones Lazy Loop The Legendary Spaceman Blues Legions Of The Endless Night Les Amoureux Let Flow The Wine L et It All Pass You By Let Me Dream You From Afar Let's Dance Letter To Jacques Maritain Let Us Melt And Make No Noise Life And Death Life As We Know It Life Class Life In Reverse Life In The Air-Age Life In Your Hands Life Is Like This Life Runs Out Like Sand The Light Fantastic The Light Gathering Garden Of Omar Kadiz The Lighthouse Keeper's Waltz Light In The Head The Light In The Mirror (The Bone Beneath The Skin) The Light Is Kinder In This Corner Of Corona Lightning Strikes The Steeple Light Rain Lights Lights (BBC Studio Session) Lights Of Kingdom Come Lights Shine When We Dream The Light This Universe Attracts The Light We Cannot See Like A Boat In The Blue Like a Dream Like An Old Blues Like Autumn Leaves We Fall Like A Woman Levitating Like Clockwork Like Rain (Rust's Dim Lustre) Likewise Is Said Elsewhere Lilac Shirt, Dark Glasses A Line Of Trees Gives Rise To Thought The Listening Station Listening To Lizards A Little Bit Of Nelsonia Little Cantina Little Cosmos Little Daughters Of Light Little Kisses Wrapped In Chocolate Little Luminaries A Little More Time Little Motors Move The Moon Living For The Spangled Moment Living For Today Living In My Limousine Living On The Moon Tonight Lo And Behold Locarno The Lockdown Song (It's All Downhill From Here) Loco-Motive (Off The Track) The Lonely Spaceman Lonesome Cowboy Bill The Lonesome Cowboy Radio Show Long Ago, By Moonlit Sea Long Grey Mare Longing For Light The Long Lost Summer A Long Time Ago Looking For A Lantern Loom Loose Box Loose Chippings Loose Connections Loosening Up With Lady Luck Lost In Space Lost In The Cosmos Again Lost In The Neon World Lost In Tijuana Lost In Your Mystery Lost Light The Lost Planet Of Sunday Afternoon Lost Planet Sunset Lost To Me Lost To Tomorrow The Lost Years Lotus In The Stream Love And A Bucket Full Of Holes Love In Flames Love In Flames (BBC Studio Session) Love In Flames (Demo) Love In The Abstract Love Is Swift Arrows A Lovely Dazzle Lover Boy At Heart Lovers Are Mortal Lovers In The Pleasure Gardens Love's A Way Love's First Kiss Love's Immortal Shining Angel Love To Win Love Without Fear Love With The Madman Loving Tongues Luana Lucis Lucky Sometimes Lucky Star Lumia Luminatron Luminous Intelligent Sexy Adults A Luminous Kind Of Guy A Luminous Kind Of Guy (Acoustic Version) Luna On The Beach Luna Rosa Luxeodeon M M Machine Voodoo Machines Of Loving Grace Madam Midnight Madhouse Magic And Mystery Magic Hill Magic Radio Magic Star Magnetism Made Me Do It Magnificent (The White Horse) Maid In Heaven Maid In Heaven (BBC Studio Session) Maid In Heaven (Top Of The Pops Backing Track) Make The Music Magic The Man In The Rexine Suit Manipulating The Phonograph Man Machine Man Of Dreams Man On Fire Man Or Astroman (Cat Or Mouse) The Man Who Dreamed Of Glory The Man Who Haunted Himself The Man Who Was Tomorrow March Of The Metaphysicians Marine Drive Mars Welcomes Careful Drivers The Martian Boulevardier The Marvellous Model Kit Marvellous Realms Mass Equals Energy The Mastery Of The Thing Materialisation Phenomena Mathematical Prairie Maybe It's My Eyes Maybe It's The Future Maybe Strange Imagination Mazda Kaleidoscope Meanwhile, Elsewhere The Meat Room Mechanical City One Meek And Wild (The Ghost In Joe's Studio) Melancholia Melancholia Lagoons Melancholy Dreams Mellophonia Mellotronix Memo Recorder Dream Narrative No.1 Memory Babe Memory Is A Data Cloud Forever Primed With Rain A Memory Lost The Memory Museum (Room One) Memory Skyline Memory Time No 1: A Wakefield Adventure Memory Time No 2: The Rock N' Roll Years Memory Time No 3: Eagle, Beezer, Topper, Beano Memory Time No 4: A Dansette Fantasy Men In Search Of The Milky Bosom Mercuria Magnetica Merry And Bright Merry Are The Wind Blown Crows Meshes Of The Afternoon Mess Around Metaphysical Jerks Meteor Bridge (Blip No 5) Method Acting Mex-Arcana Mexico City Dream (For Gil Evans) Migrating Angels The Milky Way (Burning Bright) Mill Street Junction (BBC Studio Session) A Million Moonlight Miles A Million Whistling Milkmen Mind Is A Harbour From Which Dreams Set Sail The Miracle Belongs To You Miracles To Happen The Mirror The Mirror Maker's Daughter (Other Fish To Fry) Mists Of Time Mitsukini Mixed Up Kid Mobile Homes On The Range Modern Music Modern Music (Reprise) The Moment Has Gone Moments Catch Fire On The Crests Of Waves Moments Flash Like Stars Between Them Moments In The Day Mondo Bravado Monorail Monster Man Monster Over The Fence Monsters From Heaven (Flowers And Rain) A Month Without A Moon (Jupiter in Saggitarius) The Moon Came In My Window Moon Gold Palladium Moonlight Rider Moon Over Echo Lake Moon Rocket Highway More Rain More Than Glory, More Than Gold Morning's Herald Mortal Coils The Mount Fuji Ice-Cream Factory Mountains Of The Heart Move Through This World Mr. Magnetism Himself Murder Music For A Victorian Steam Cottage Music From Another Star Music In Dreamland Music In Dreamland (Phonogram Studios Version) Music Spins My Globe Mutually Enchanted My Amigo My Botticelli Angel My Catalogue Of Dreams My Dark Daemon My Dream Demon My Dreamy Life My Electrical Empire My Elevated Sweetheart My Empty Bowl Is Full Of Sky My Ever Gleaming Dreamertron My Favourite Atom My Favourite Urban Chrome-Green Sky My Giddy Levitation My Intricate Image My Life In Neon, My Life In Sound My Light My Light (Demo) My Little Book Of Secret Knowledge My Luminous Planet My New Erotic Guest My Pal Hal (For Mr. Budd) My Paranoia My Philosophy My Private Cosmos My Private Cosmos (Part Two) My Shadow Cast By Midnight Moon My Ship Is Lost To Semaphore My Ship Reclines On Clouds Of Sail My Sputnik Sweetheart Mystere The Mysterious Bath Mysterious Chemicals Of Love The Mysterious Echo Chamber Of Priapus Stratocaster Mysterious Mysterium Mysterious Object Overhead Mysterium Mysterium Magnum (The Great Secret) The Mystery Demo Mystery Engine Mystery Vortex (Oberon Touchstone) Mysteryworld The Mystic My Sublime Perversion My Wild Atomic Wedding Day My Wonder Book Of Wings And Sails My World Spins N N Narcosis Naughty, Naughty Naughty Boy, Dirty Girl The Navigator Near East The Nebulous Adventures Of Newton Kyme The Nebulous Land Of Nod Nebulous Trolleybus Neil Young Neither Puck Nor Pan Neon Lights And Japanese Lanterns Never A Dull Day (For Les Paul) Nevermore Nevernoon Nevertheless New Dream Island New Moon Rising New Mysteries New Mysteries (Demo) New Northern Dreamer New Precision New Precision (Demo) News From Nowhere New Vibrato Wonderland Nightbirds Night Boats Pass Beneath The Stars Night Creatures Night Creatures (Electrotype Version) Night Creatures (Spoken Word Version) Night Is The Engine Of My Imagination Night Song Of The Last Tram Night Thoughts (Twilight Radio) Night Tides 1948 Nipples Of Venus No Bee In His Bonnet No Fool For You No Meaning No Memories Here To Make You Sad Noonday Venus No Room In My Head North-East Northern Dreamer (1957) A Northern Man North Yorkshire Moors Rain (For Harold Budd) Nostalgia (For The Future) Not As Easy As It Looks Nothing Is The New Something Nothing Up My Sleeve Nothing Yet No Thoughts, I Think No Time Says The Clock (Version 1) No Time Says The Clock (Version 2) No Trains To Heaven No Two Thoughts November Fires (My Northern Dream) Nowhere Fast Nowhere In Particular Now I Come To Think Of It Now Is Not And Never Was The Now That Never Was O O Ocean Afternoon Ocean Full Of Wishes Ocean In The Sky Ocean Over Blue The Ocean, The Night And The Big, Big Wheel The October Man October Sky Odeon The Offering Oh Moon In The Night I Have Seen Thee Sailing Old Brown Town Older Joe Old Goat Old Haunts The Old Nebulosity Waltz Old Weirdola On An Ocean Of Dreams On A Train I Never Boarded Once I Had A Time Machine Once More Around the Moon Once Upon A River One A.M. One Day At A Time One For You One Man's Fetish Is Another Man's Faith One Summer Night One Thing Leads To Another One Way Track Only A Dream But Nevertheless Only Dreaming Only Love Can Tell Only One Blue Moon On The Beach On The Beam Opening Opium Opus Hermeticum (The Work Of Hermes) Orange Turning Blue Ordinary Idiots Ordinary Idiots (Original Demo) An Ordinary Man Ordinary Storm, Waiting For Rain Organola Orient Of Memphis Orient Pearl Orphans Of Babylon Orpheus Dreams Of Disneyland Orson's Ghost The Orson Welles Memorial Sleighride Osram Diadem Otherworld Our Friends In The Stars Our Lady Of Apparitions Our Lucky Stars Out Of The Window, Into The Night Out Of Touch Out Of Touch (BBC Session) Out Of Touch (Demo) O Vee Over Ocean Over The Moon Overture P P Pageant Paging Mr. God Pagoda Dreamhouse Painted Boats On Still Waters Painting Your Sky With Marvellous Birds Palace Of Gnosis Palais Des Marine Pamela And The Pony Club Panic In The World Panic In The World (BBC Studio Session) Panic In The World (Juan Les Pins Mix) Pansophia Parade Of The Inhabitants Of A Phantom Fairground Paradise And Purgatory Paradox Jukebox The Paradox Machine Parklands Drive Parks And Fountains, Clouds And Trees A Parting Of The Ways The Passion Past And Present (And The Space Between) Path Of Return The Pavilion Of Diana Pedalscope One Pedalscope Two Peppermint Forever Perdita Rose Perfect Bliss Perfect Monsters A Perfect Night - The Dawn Rejoices Perfect World Perfidia 2017 Perfidio Incanto Phantom Gardens Phantom Island The Phantom Palace Of The Prince Of Dreams Phantom Sedan (Theme From Tail-Fin City) The Phonograph Bird Photograph (A Beginning) Photograph: A New Beginning Piano 45 Piano Angelica Piano-Guitar The Piano Lesson The Piano Room Picture In A Frame Picture Perfect Piece Of Mine (BBC Studio Session) Pilgrim (Fantasia On A Distantly Remembered Hymn) Pilots Of Kite Pink Buddha Blues Pink Poodle Parade (Organ Version) Pink Poodle Parade (Piano Version) Pink Trick Panties A Place We Pray For Planet Of Ghosts Planet Of Guitars Planet Of Sleeping Buddhas Planets We Once Knew The Plastic Flower Show Plastic Mac Playback Playbox Playful Playing Jesus To Her Judas Pleasure Bikes The Pleasure Boaters Plectricity Pointing At The Moon Pokus Polishing The Chromes A Pond For The Moon The Pond Yacht Pondering The Mystery Popsicle Head-Trip Portrait Of Jan With Flowers Portrait Of Jan With Moon And Stars Possession Possession (BBC Studio Session) Possession (Demo) Possession (Rough Mix) Postcard To A Penfriend Powder Blue Powerglide Prairie Hula Prayer For The Living A Prayer To Sleep With Mercurial Women Preamp Prelude: The Night Is Lit By Diamonds Premium Standard No.1 Pretty Little Bubble Of Dreams Prima Materia (First Matter) Prisoner Of Love A Private View Prize Of Years The Profaned Sanctuary Of The Human Heart Profiles, Hearts, Stars A Promise Of Perfume Propellor Of Legend Puckish Pure Imagination (Blip No 8) Pure Joy Purple Loop Push Button Bang Push The Button, Spin The Dial Puzzlepop Q Q Quarter Moons And Stars Quarter To Eleven The Queen Of Atlantis Queen Of The Infra-Red Queer Weather Quest For The Harvest Of The Stars Quest For The Harvest Of The Stars (Demo) Quick As A Flash Quiet Bells Quiet Planet Quietly Now (Manipulating The Phonograph No.2) Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam R R Radar In My Heart Radar In My Heart (Demo) Radiant Nature Knows Not The Worker's Sorrow Radiant Spires Radiated Robot Men Radio Andalusia Radio Control Radio Rialto Radio Waves Lap Memory's Shore Radium Cocktail Rain And Neon Rainboy And Whistledog Rainclouds Over Paris Of My Dreams Rain Dance The Raindrop Collector Raindrops Raindrum Rain Falls Fast On Faded Ruin Rain Falls On Sleepytown The Rainiest Day In The World Raining Rain Made Us Shine Rain On A Caravan Roof Rain Town Rambling Through The Meadows (Wonder Wise) Rapture Parade Rattlin' Trams The Real Adventure Real Gone Reality Check The Reality Of Imagination Real Men With Ray Guns Realm Of Archons Realm Of Dusk Realm Rider Real Thing This Time Real Worlds And Dream Worlds The Receiver And The Fountain Pen Red Planet Blues (The Ritual Transfiguration Of Spaceman Albert Fitzwilliam Digby) Reflect On This Rehearsal Of Thought Reighton Sands Rejoice Relaxin' With Bill At Luxury Lodge Relaxo Supremo A Reliable Bicycle And A Map Of The Heart (Trip Two) The Rest Of The World Rolls By The Retro Modernist Retronauta The Return Of Magnificent Return To Jazz Of Lights Revenge Of The Coda Kings The Revenge Of The Man In The Burning Ice-Cream Van Reverse Engineering Reversing Through Willows Revolt Into Style Revolt Into Style (Demo) Revolving Globes Rhythm Unit Rialto Riders Of My Love Riding The Go-Tubes Right, Then Left Ringing True Ripples On A Blue Pool Rise (Above These Things) Rise Like A Fountain The Rise Of Pandemonium And The Fall Of Kingdom Come Rising Sap The Ritual Echo River Of Love A River On The Edge Of Time The Road To Elsewhere Robots On Parade Rockarolla Rockers Of The Rosy Cross Rocket Billy Blues Rocket Cathedrals Rocket Cathedrals (First Version) Rocket Rabbit's Secret Dream (Osram Energy Device No.1) Rocket Science Ranchboy Rocketship Rocket To Damascus Rocket To The Moon Rocking The Dreamboat Rolling Home (Yorkshire Raga No.1) Rooms With Brittle Views Rosalia The Rose And The Beast The Rose Covered Cottage At The End Of Time Roses And Rocketships Roses, Haloes, Crown Of Thorns The Rossetti Effect Roto-Scope Roundabouts And Swings Royal Blue Royal Ghosts The Roy Rogers Radio Ranch The Ruins Of Youth, The Twang Of Tomorrow The Rumbler (For Duane) Runaway Running Running From My Own Shadow Rural Shires Rusty Bells S S Sacrament Sad Feelings Safe Inside Her Wonderwear Sail Away Sailing My Boat Sailing Through Skies Of Blue Sailing To The Moon Sailor Blue Same Shape, Different Meaning Sanctus Illuminatus (The Sacred Illuminated) Santos Saturnalia Saturn's Groove The Saxophonist (Demo) The Saxophonist (Juan Les Pins Version) Say Hello, Electric Ghost Scale Model (Assembly Required) Scenic Elevator Science And Sacrament Science Fiction Times The Science Of Extraordinary Things Seaglass Search And Listen Searching For An Island Off The Coast Of Dreams Searching For Utopia And Other Shangrilas Secret Agent At Science Park Secret Ceremony (Theme From Brond) Secret Club For Members Only Secret Song (Oh, Emiko) Seduction (Ritual With Roses) See It Through See-Through Nightie Selectatone Self Impersonisation Self-Initiation Sell My Soul Send The Rain Senor Mysterioso Sentimental September Promenade Sequinned Skeleton Blues Serene In Silver The Serpent Holds The Secret Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart Set Your Dials For Dreaming Seven Keys To This City 17 Electric Women Seventh Circle 72 Christmases On Planet Earth Several Famous Orchestras Sex And Drums And Saxophones Sex Magic Sex Party Six Sex, Psyche, Etcetera The Shadow Garden Shadow Haunting Me Shadowland Shake It Up Shaker The Shape Of Things To Come She Dreams Of Fires She Gave Me Memory She Sees Me Sleeping She Sends Me She's Got Flower Power She's Got Me Floating She's Got The Power She Signals From Across The Bay She's So Extreme She Swings Skirt Shibuya Screen Shifting Sands The Shimmering Threshold (On Your Bike Emperor Ming) Shine Shine Your Light Shining Reflector The Shining Staircase Shining Through Ship In A Bottle Blues (The Modern Mariner) Ship Of Summer, All Lights Blazing Ships In The Night Ships In The Night (Alternate Vocal Version) Ships In The Night (First Version) A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain A Short History Of The Future Short Wave The Shot Shower Of Sparks Show Home Showtime Science Fiction Times Signal Destinations Signalling As We Go Signals From Earth Signs And Signals Signum Natura (Symbolic Nature) Silent Glides My Armstrong Siddeley The Silent Hour Silent Night The Silver Darkness Whispers Yes Silver Rain (Marooned In A Fairytale) Silver Sailboat On Samsara Sea Silver Sparks And Coloured Stars Silver Stars Will Shine Silver Tears Silvertone Fountains A Simple Thought Flashes Through My Mind Sine Waves Singing In A Silver Tower Sing Ye Golden Sunbeams, Sing The Singing In The Air Above The Village Green Singing My Life Away Sister Seagull Sister Seagull (BBC Studio Session) Sisters And Sedan Chairs The Six Coiled Serpent Six Legged Critter Singing In The Trees Six String Skyway Six Strings For Sara Skidoodling Skies Are Not Cloudy Skimming Stones Skull Baby Cluster Sky Loop Sky Scooter The Sky, The Sea, The Moon And Me Skylark's Rise Sleep The Sleep Of Hollywood Sleep That Burns Sleepcycle The Sleeping Body Sings Sleepless City Sleepless In The Ticking Dark Sleeplessness Sleepy Snakes Slinky Incantations Slippery Loop Slow Clouds Slow Jig And Whirligig Slow, Slow, Slow Slow Smoulder Slow Sundays Slumberlite Small Red Birds Smiles Smoke And Vine Smoke And Wires Smoke Drifts Silent In Autumn Air Snakes With Wings Snoozy Winks Snowfall Snowing Outside Snow Is Falling Snow Light Soakin' In The Bathtub Soda Fountain Swing So Far Soft Light So Insane And So In Love So It Goes Solid Spaces Soluna Oriana Some Days It's Orange, Some Days It's Blue Some Distant Time Some Jiggery Pokery Something's Going On Sometimes, These Times Somewhere Else Is Here Somewhere In Far Tomorrow Somewhere, Nowhere, Everywhere The Sonambulist And The Children A Song Of Heart And Mind The Song My Silver Planet Sings Soon September (Another Enchantment) The Sound From This Recording Travels To The Stars Sound Track Southport Space Ace Gets His Girl Space Age Dreamer Space Country Loop Space Cowboys Spacefleet (The Golden Days Of Dan Dare) Spacehopper Spaceport Space Ranch Spaceship Away! Spacesuit Parade Spanish Galleons Cruise The Sunrise The Spark Sparkle And Spin The Sparkle Machine (Phenomena 77) Sparklette (Blip No 4) The Sparkling Idea Sparky And The Spearmint Moon Spearmint And Moonbeams Special Metal The Spectral Waltz Of Venus Speedboats From Another World Speed Of The Wind Speed Of The Wind (Demo) Spindrift Sphinx Spinnin' Around Spinning Creatures Spinning Dizzy On The Dial Spinning Pentagrams Spinning Planet The Spirit Cannot Fail A Spirit Map Of Montparnasse The Spirit That Remembers Spooks In The Shed Spooky Little Thing Spring Springtime Comes A Dancing Spring Will Come Spy Vs Spy Squeaky Toytown Squirm Stage Whispers Stage Whispers (BBC Studio Session) Staircase To No Place Standard Fireworks The Standard Fireworks Stomp Stand By: Light Coming... Standing In A Starlit Room Standing On Tiptoes, Reaching For The Sky Stanley Blues Tail A Star Named Desire Star Sugar Sky Stargazing Whilst Smoking An Imaginary Pipe (Pipedreams) Starland Starlight And Moonbeams Starlight Stories Stars Will Shine Start Beaming And Get On The Gleam Starward-Ho! Station Clock In Cloud Of Steam Stay With Me Stay Young Stay Young (BBC Session) Stay Young (Demo) Steam Radio Blues Steamboat In The Clouds Stereo Star Map Number One Stereo Star Map Number Two Still Shining (BBC Studio Session) Still Waiting Stone In Your Palm Stop/Go/Stop Stop/Go/Stop (Demo) Strange And Wonderful (That's My Life) Stranger Flowers Now Than Ever The Strangest Things, The Strangest Times Streamlined Train, Passing Fast Streamliner Strictly For The Birds Strolling With My Father Strong Enough Struck Dumb By Beauty Again The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Stupid-Stupid (Deep And Serious) Substitute Flesh Substitute Flesh (Demo) Suburban Mermaid One Twenty Three Suburban Pearl Summer Comes In Colour Summer Hums In The Bee-Loud Glade Summer Over Soon Summer Shower Summer Woman Sun At Six Windows Sunbeam Sunglasses After Dark Sun Kings Suffer (As Time Goes By) Sun Loop Sunny Bungalows Sunny Day For A Happy Postman Sun On Water, Wind In Wire Sun Will Rise Superadventure (Sound-On-Sound) Superenigmatix Superenigmatix (BBC Studio Session) Superhappyeverafter Super-Hyper Hocus Pocus Super Noodle Number One Superscope The Super-Sensualist Superserene Superslippy Surf King Sails In Surreal Estate Surreal Estate (Demo) Suvasini Swan Song Sway And Swoon Sweet Dead Bunny Sweethearts In Swimsuits Sweet Is The Mystery Sweet Little Dreamer Sweet William's Epiphany Swept Away Swing Swing Song Swing With The Rhythm Boys Switchback Switch Off That Desert Sunset Switch On The Sky, Light Up The Stars Symphony In Golden Stereo Synchromatic T T Take It Off And Thrill Me (Jazzy Option) Take It Off And Thrill Me (Rock Option) Tales Of The Intergalactic Glee Club Talk Technique Tangle Of Wires Tantra Tantramatic Tarnished Tears As Diamonds (The Gift Reverses) Teatime In The Republic Of Dreams Techno Punk Gets Rhythm Teenage Archangel Telepathic Cats A Telescope Full Of Stars Tender Encounters (States Of Grace) Tender Is The Night Test Card Testify Test Of Affection That Old Mysterioso That's The World That Sunburst Sound That Was A Beautiful Dream, She Said That Was Then Theatre Of Falling Leaves Thematix Theme From Uncanny Valley Themis Aurea Theology There Are Ghosts Here There Are Stars Beyond The Night There Is A Moment There's A Star Somewhere These Are The Dreams These Minutes Are Ours These Stars Are Fire These Tall Blue Days (Are Lark Amazed) Theurgia They Tell You This, They Tell You That Thicket And Loam A Thing About That Things To Come Think And You'll Miss It Third Floor Heaven Third Floor Heaven (BBC Studio Version) This And That This Clockwork World This Dangerous Age This Everyday World (Instrumental Version) This Everyday World (Vocal Version) This Gilded Age This Information Arrives From Dreams This Is Destiny This Is Like a Galaxy This Is Not A Dream This Is True This Land Is Haunted This Leads To That Leads To This This River Runs Deep This Very Moment (Version 1) Thought Bubble No 1 Thought Bubble No 2 Thought Bubble No 3 A Thought For You A Thought In Passing Thoughts Travel (For Miles) Thoughts Without Friction The Thought That Counts Thousand Fountain Island A Thousand, Thousand Ghosts Threnodia Through Drifting Clouds Through My Window Thunder Blooms In The Heat Bruised Sky Thundercloudy Thunder Heralds The Fairylight Parade Thunder On The Wing Thunderous Accordions Thunder, Perfect Mind The Ticking Of Time Tick-Tock-Tick Tick Tock Ticking Time In Tokyo Time Is A Mechanism Time Is A Thief Time Is Running Away (The Blue Nowhere) Times Of Our Lives Time's Quick-Spun Globe Time's Tide (The Dreams That Escape Me) Time Stops Here Time Stops Right Here Time Today Time Tracking Time Travel For Beginners Tin Sings Bones Tinderbox Tingalary Man And The Scarlet Fever Kid Tiny Aeroplanes Tiny Little Thing Tiny Mice Are Dancing In The Cottage Of Her Dreams Tip The Wink Tired Eyes To A Child To Disappear To Imagine Is Hard To Jan From The Shining Stars Tomorrowland (The Threshold Of 1947) Tomorrow's World Tomorrow The World (BBC Studio Session) Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Will Not Be Too Late Tongues Of Fire (Resist) Tonight Picasso Dreams Tony Goes To Tokyo (And Rides The Bullet Train) To The Sea In Ships Touch And Glow A Touch Of Body And Soul Tower Of Jewels To What Strange Place Will This Transport You? A Town Called Blue Tomorrow The Toy Trumpet The Trace We Left When All Was Gone The Tragedy Train Of Thought Train Travelling North Train With Fins Transcendant Transcendental Radios Transcendental Tittycups Transformation No. 1 Transformation No. 2 Transition No. 1 Transition No. 2 Transition No. 3 Transition No. 4 Transition No. 5 Transition No. 6 (The Journey) Transmission (N.B.C. 97293) Transoceanic Transparent Towers At Dusk Travelling In Mind Travels In The Spirit World The Trees Are Full Of Whistling Birds The Tree That Dreamed Of Violas A Trembling In The Air Trembling Rainbows Tremola The Trip Trip Thang Tropicus True North Try Tumbletown Turn Me Over Turn To Fiction Tuxedo Moon The TV's On The Blink Twang Rings True Tweetime The Twentieth Century The 21st Century 23,000 Feet In The Air Twice In A Blue Moon Twilight And The River Twilight Capers Twilight Crescent Twilight Planetarium Two Brothers Test The Kite Flying Winds Two Hearts Beating 2000 Miles To Midnight (My Ghost Burns Fire) U U U.H.F. Um, Ah Good Evening Under Fading Stars Under The Red Arch Unearthlings Unforgetting The Universe Is Fast Asleep A Universe To Give You The Unmasking Unsaid (Starry Lamps And Blazing Comets) Until All Our Lights Combine Until The Blue Whenever Until Tomorrow Uphill Up In The Attic, Down In The Lab (Hubble Bubble And Starshine) Up On A Star V V The Vanilla Summer Of Mr. Whippy Vanishing Parades Vapour Grey Variation On The Theme Of A White Christmas Velo-Sola Velocity Dansette Velorama Pastoral The Venetian Conjurer Venetian Submarines Ventura Venus Over Vegas Vertical Games V-Ghost (For Harold And Ellen) View From A Balcony The View From Lantern Hill The View From Mount Palomar The Village Dreams Beneath The Stars Villefranche Interior The Violins Of Autumn Visionary Visions Of Endless Hopes Visions Of Endless Hopes (Demo) Vista-Dome-Railcar Viva Le Voom-Voom A Voice Without A Face The Void Beyond The Line Vortexion Dream Vulcan Street W W Wah-Wah Galaxy No.1 Wait For Tomorrow Waiting For Rain Waiting For The Midnight Flyer Waiting For The Night (Demo) Waiting For Voices Walking Away From Paradise Walking On Thin Air The Walls Of Which Are Made Of Clouds Waltz The Waltz At The End Of The World Wanderings Warm And Wonderful The Warmth Of Women's Eyes Wasted Lives Watching My Dream Boat Go Down In Flames Watchword (A Return) Water Of Life (Transfiguration) Waves The Way Way Back When The Way My World Works The Way Of The World Weather Blows Wild Inside My Head Weatherproof The Weather Song Weatherwood We Hail The Wind Down Long Arcades We Here Who Were There Weird Critters Welcome Home, Mr. Kane Welcome To Dreamshire Welcome To Electric City Welcome To Realm Seven Welcome To The Dream Transmission Pavilion Welcome To Wonderland Well, Well, Well (Rock N' Roll It) We Run Before The Wind West Deep We Two In Love Forever Dreaming We Vanish At Shadowfall We Were Young We Who Are Awake Will Not Be Asleep We Will Rise What Furnace Is The Brain? What Have We Got To Show For This? What's A Boy Supposed To Do? What's It All About? What Station Is This? What Time Is This Space? What To Wear Now, What To Wear Next What We Wish For Whatever I Do The Wheel Of Fortune And The Hand Of Fate When Accident Became My Bride When Aeroplanes Were Dragonflys When Art Schools Shaped Tomorrow When Beauty Came To Call When Boys Dream Of Guitars When Boys Were Lost For Words When Day Is Done When God Was A Rabbit And Buddha Was A Mouse (Over The Moon Two) When I Don't Feel Blue When Midnight Falls When The Birds Return When The Invisible Circus Comes To Town When The Wind Blows All Away When The World Was Beautiful When We Were Beautiful When We Were Young When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True Where Are The Stars That Fall From Heaven Where Are We Now Where Do We Go Where Does It Come From, Where Does It Go? Where's The Wonder? Where You Is, Is Where You Are Whimsy Whirlaway The Whirlpool Into Which Everything Must Whirl Whirlpool Meditation Whirlwind Winters Wind The Clocks Of Spring Whistleworld Whistling While The World Turns White Falcon One White Falcon Two White Sound Who He Is The Whole City Between Us Whoop-Be-Doopy-Doopy! Whoops! I'm Going Back In Time Who's That Floating Above The Trees? Why? Why Be Lonely Why Does It Do That? Wide Awake/Half Asleep Wide Awake In The Heart Of You A Wide Open Window (With A View Of The Stars) Wider Windows For The Walls Of The World Wild And Dizzy Wild And Serene Wild Blue Sky Cycle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Lilac Wildest Dreams Will William Is Wearing The Cardigan Of Light Willow Silk The Wind Blows Silver And The Bees Hum Gold Wind Chimes Of Memory The Wind In The Wood Windmill Interlude Windmills In A World Without Wind A Window Open Onto Eden Windsong Of The Flying Boy Windswept Wing And A Prayer Wings And Everything Wing Thing Winterchyme The Winter Mermaid Wiping A Tear From The All Seeing Eye Wireless World Wishes With All The Will In The World Without A Blue Horizon The Woman Of Tomorrow Wonder And Excitement Wonderful Weather In Woodgates Lane The Wonderful Wurlitzer Of Blackpool Tower Wondering Wondering Why? Wonder Kid Wondermonster The Wonder Of It All Wonder Of The Age Wonder Of The Moment Wonders Never Cease Wonder Story Wonder Street Wondertown Wonder Toys That Last Forever Wonder Where We Go Wonky Loop Word For Word Words Across Tables The Word That Became Flesh Workcycles Working Man The World And His Wife The World Is Lost To Us All In The End World Of Dreams The World Sleeps Late On New Year's Day World Still Turns World Thru' Fast Car Window The World To Me The World Wakes Up Wow! It's Scootercar Sexkitten! Wysteria XYZ XYZ Year 44 (The Birthday Song) The Years Years From Now Yes And Always And Forever Yes And No Yesterday Yonder Gleams Your Star You Do Like Music? (Blip No 1) You Don't Love Me You Freak Me Out You Here Now In William's World You Know How To Hurt You Make Me Cry Young Angels By An Ancient River Young Dreams, Whirled Away Young Eyes Young Marvelman Your Hand Today Holds The Future Of Tomorrow Your Imagination Your Magic Man In The Sky Your Morning Blessing Your Name Completes This Frequency Your Nebulous Smile Your Secret Sign Your Sexy Thunder Your Taxi To The Stars Your Whole Life Dreaming Youth Of Nation On Fire The Yo-Yo Dyne Zanoni Zip, Boom, Bang Zodiac Zoom Sequence

Could This Be Heaven? single - 1979 Original Mirrors Production/Contribution Menu Future Past BILL: Producer Production/Contribution Menu Future Past

Flaming Desire Bill Nelson single - 23 July 1982 Singles Menu Future Past TRACKS: 7" Single: A) Flaming Desire B) The Passion 12" Single: A) Flaming Desire (Long Version) B1) The Passion B2) The Burning Question Flaming Desire And Other Passions 12" EP: A1) Flaming Desire (Long Version) A2) Flesh B1) The Passion B2) The Burning Question B3) He And Sleep Were Brothers B4) Haunting In My Head ORIGINALLY: On the 7", the 'A' side was taken from The Love That Whirls album, and on the 12" it appeared in an extended version, clocking in at 6'30". The 'B' sides were both non-album tracks from The Love That Whirls sessions. NOTES: Flaming Desire was the second single released to support The Love That Whirl s album. The single was issued in 2 formats commercially (7" and 12"), and as a 7" promo featuring an exclusive radio edit. The 7" sleeves for the commercial and promo copies are identical. The 12" version included an exclusive extended remix of "Flaming Desire" and an additional non-album cut, "The Burning Question". Flaming Desire And Other Passions was Canadian/US release Including the additional tracks from the Eros Arriving 12" single. The single was promoted by a short promo video that Nelson directed, made on a shoe string budget and featured his then wife Jan. Stills from this video would later feature on the sleeve of the Chimera mini-album. PAST RELEASES: The B-sides were both included on The Two Fold Aspect of Everything comp (out of print). CURRENT AVAILABILITY: B/B1 was added to the remastered 2005 CD of The Love That Whirls , and The Practice of Everyday Life box (2011). The album is still in print. The box set is out of print in physical form, but available as a digital download from major online retailers. Singles Menu Future Past

Life in Your Hands Bill Nelson single - 10 July 1989 Singles Menu Future Past TRACKS: 12" Single: A1) Life In Your Hands A2) Do You Dream In Colour? B1) Get Out Of That Hole B2) My Dream Demon 7" Promotional Single: A) Do You Dream In Colour? B) Life In Your Hands ORIGINALLY: Life in Your Hands was a non-album single, which would be included on the Duplex compilation set a few months after its release. "Do You Dream in Colour?" was the recording from the original single in 1980. B1 & B2 were non-album tracks. NOTES: This would turn out to be the final official Nelson single issued on vinyl, and Nelson's last single for Cocteau Records before the label was dissolved in 1990. The single exists in two formats, 7" and 12", with the former being believed to be a promo. The 7" pressing in a die cut Cocteau sleeve features exclusive edited versions of both "Do You Dream in Colour?" and "Life in Your Hands". It is believed that the edit in "Do You Dream in Colour?" (removing the line "Video Junkie Looking for a Fix") was done to encourage BBC Radio 1 to play the song. PAST RELEASES: "Life in Your Hands" was included on the now out of print albums Duplex and The Strangest Things compilations. Up until 2020, B1 & B2 had not been released elsewhere, but are available now on Transcorder. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: B1 & B2 are available as bonus tracks on the retrospective compilation album Transcorder (The Acquitted By Mirrors Recordings) . BILL'S THOUGHTS: "If I remember correctly, the sax on "Life in Your Hands" is myself, playing a sax sound from an Emax emulator keyboard." Singles Menu Future Past

Blip! Bill Nelson album - 15 June 2013 Albums Menu Future Past Purchase this download TRACKS: 01) Bats At Bedtime 02) You Do Like Music? (Blip No 1) 03) Where You Is, Is Where You Are 04) Bell Weather (Blip No 2) 05) Your Name Completes This Frequency 06) A Dream Of Thee (Blip No 3) 07) The Fabulous Mr Futurismo 08) Sparklette (Blip No 4) 09) Your Sexy Thunder 10) Meteor Bridge (Blip No 5) 11) In A Cloud Of Stars 12) Bright And Glittering (Blip No 6) 13) Whirlwind Winters Wind The Clocks Of Spring 14) Flutterbye (Blip No 7) 15) Painting Your Sky With Marvellous Birds 16) Pure Imagination (Blip No 8) 17) No Two Thoughts 18) Aeolian Magic (Blip No 9) 19) Darling Star 20) Dazzle (Blip No 10) 21) After All These Years 22) I Danced In A Dream (Blip No 11) ALBUM NOTES: Blip! is an album mixing vocal and instrumental pieces, issued in a one off print run of 500 copies released on the Sonoluxe label. From this point onwards, Nelson would limit most of his releases to 500 copies. The material recorded for Blip! began life as part of a project called Grand Auditoria , which was initially revealed to the Dreamsville community in July 2012. When Nelson reviewed the work completed to date though in March 2013, he considered the material to be unsuitable for the original concept behand Grand Auditoria , and renamed the album Blip! . The finished album was premiered at a special launch party held at Leeds University on 15 June 2013, attended by approximately 150 guests. Included in the ticket price was a copy of Blip! , and everyone who attended the event was given a free companion CDR of out-takes, entitled Blip 2 (See separate entry). The remaining 350 or so copies of Blip! went on general release through S.O.S. two days after the launch party, and were reported as sold out on 24 June 2013. The superfast sales of Blip! led to a few dissenting voices on the Dreamsville forum, mainly linked to the inevitable appearance of copies on eBay at inflated prices, which led in turn to Nelson quickly releasing the album as a digital download on 26 July 2013. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available for purchase as a digital download here in the Dreamsville Store . BILL'S THOUGHTS: "The Grand Auditoria album I was working on was originally intended to be a compendium of as many of the various styles of music I've created over the years as I could cram onto a disc, (at least without it turning into some sort of self parody). Well, that was my intention, but, for some reason it didn't quite work out that way...The Muse seems to have had different ideas and instead I ended up with a skewed pop-rock album which, as you probably know, I've recently titled Blip!" "Hmmm...wrong-footed by the Muse again...Naughty girl!" _____ "I think that the album needs a few short instrumental interludes in between the vocal pieces to break things up a bit, (in similar fashion to the instrumentals between the vocal tracks on the Joy Through Amplification , album, but, of course, in a different style). "I've just finished recording the first of these little instrumentals. This is titled "Blip One". It's a kitsch, mad little waltz, very short and designed to make you smile. I'll begin mixing it this evening. I think once I've scattered several cute instrumentals between the other pop-rock vocal tracks, 'BLIP' will be a fun album." _____ "The vocal tracks are generally in a sort of pop-rock style, but with the usual skewed approach you would expect of me. The instrumentals, (which occur between the vocal tracks), are quite short, melodic and synth/keyboard-based and radiate a quirky charm. Whilst they are totally different to the instrumental moods on the Joy Through Amplification album, they function in a similar fashion, acting as an 'album within an album', a kind of between main courses musical sorbet." _____ Bill's Listening Notes for the album: 'Blip!' Listening Notes FAN THOUGHTS: hypnohighball: "Bill, you've outdone yourself this time. I can't remember when I was this elated listening to one of your new albums. Not to say I don't love them all now, but this one hit me HARD." "I'm honestly not just saying this, but I think this is one of Bill's best. Lots of vocals and electric guitar, which I like, but also a lot of everything else tossed into the mix make this some tasty head candy for the ears. Love the short "Blip" musical interludes between each song - even though all 22 tracks are nothing alike, they all fit together into a unified piece. I highly recommend reading Bill's album notes while you are listening - his way with words is just as imaginative and talented as his musical creativeness. Can't remember the last time I put on an album, sat back, looked out the window and just listened to it straight through with a big smile on my face half the time and the other half shaking my head in wonder/disbelief." Man in the rexine pyjamas: "I just want to go on record as saying it is a corker. Twenty two tracks, eleven songs and eleven instumentals (or Blips!). Some fantastic songs that I'm humming already after only a couple of plays (probably the bluesy "Your Sexy Thunder" being my favourite). The Blips are the really interesting pieces, and if I had a wish, it would be that Bill takes one or two of these quite brilliant musical ideas and runs with them to twenty odd minute pieces. Heaven!" "It is a very strong album indeed, like most of Bill's work, giving you more the more you hear it. I would say I prefer it to JTA , and that is very strong praise indeed in my book (like trying to chose your favourite child)." tom fritz: "I've been "Blip" - ing out of my mind. How does one guy make so much happen, in the space of one song? So fantastic, no words really. The inspiration is strong, that's for certain. Thanks Bill!" paul.smith: "You Do Like Music": "is top stuff...that slightly sinister carnivalesque sound coupled with a seemingly innocent question...but repeated to the same sinister effect as the voice continues...reminds me of the old Twilight Zone for some reason...deliciously creepy is my interpretation!! As always, the music on these two grows with those all important repeated listenings...'familiarity breeds content" as it were." felixt1: "Overall, I can confidently say that Blip! will be a hit with anyone who particularly enjoys Bill's more upbeat, up-tempo pop/rock music. There are some great lyrical, melodic and guitartastic moments, but also some great synth. The album certainly deserves to have sold so quickly." Holer: "I do think, after all these years, that I love your music when you are in 'Playful' mode the best. This latest batch of tunes reminds me in spirit of things like Atom Shop , Whimsy and Noise Candy before it, like you are just having a blast knocking out these little tunes and that sense of fun is so infectious, I can't stop listening to it. I love the Blip concept too. I think the Blips are just as strong as the pop tunes...Nobody makes noises like your particular noises." December Man: Bill's Magnum Opus?: "Blip! It just has everything I've come to love about Bill's music and more..." "It feels like a retro-future mixture of Bill's and "progressive" music's full potential." "It's as if Bill has meshed together all of his musical influences, styles and experiences and the sum total of these various parts have all coalesced into one amazing inevitable whole! Loving this, Bill!" WalterDigsTunes: "After listening to quite a few 21st century BN releases, I have to say that Blip! stands out as a high-point in the catalog. It's got a little of everything but at just the right dosage. The little Blips that peep in between songs are a nice little EP, if you choose to look at it that way. The vocal songs that makes up the bulk of this album also rank among my personal favorites. Note the brash opener, the smoky love song, and all those winking smiles you can't help but responding to. Let's not forget Bill's delivery: sentiment, cadence and words all coalesce perfectly across this record. I also can't help but praise the well-implemented (but never merely incidental or overly-dominating) guitar work. "Am I praising the balance or the excess? I have no idea. I just know that if I had to recommend one Bill Nelson disc from the current crop, Blip! would be it." Face In The Rain: "Have just downloaded both Blips and have been completely blown away. Bill is always good but this is just fabulous stuff. Was shaking my head in wonder so much that my good wife thought the download had crashed the system!" Albums Menu Future Past

Astroloops Bill Nelson mini-album - January 2015 Albums Menu Future Past Purchase this download TRACKS: 01) Purple Loop 02) Sky Loop 03) Slippery Loop 04) Sun Loop 05) Blue Loop No 1 06) Jazzy Loop 07) Honey Loop 08) Blue Loop No 2 09) Space Country Loop 10) Fantasmo Loop 11) Wonky Loop 12) Lazy Loop ALBUM NOTES: Astroloops is a CDR release issued on the newly established Astrotone imprint in a very limited edition (just 24 copies) to purchasers of the Astroluxe Custom Ltd. guitar produced by Eastwood Guitars. This release is a mini-album due to its relatively short playing time. News of the project was first announced on the Dreamsville forum in July 2014, with orders being taken for the guitar from 2nd September (initially only 12 were to be manufactured but this was doubled to 24 within 2 days due to the level of demand). By the 26th of September it was confirmed that all 24 copies of the guitar had been purchased although buyers had to wait until mid-late January 2015 before the goods had been delivered, with the US customers getting their hands on the music before those in the UK for a change! Fans that either couldn't afford the guitar, or couldn't play the guitar, or simply missed out in getting their order in on time, will hopefully get the chance to hear this very limited item one day. When asked of the possibility of this, Nelson indicated that it might require Eastwood Guitars to give permission for this to happen and warned fans that they may have to wait for 1 - 2 years before reissuing it as a download. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Available for purchase as a digital download here in the Dreamsville Store . BILL'S THOUGHTS: "It's an interesting set of recordings, quite spontaneous and relaxed...not concerned with being perfect, but beautifully raw and charmingly naked. It's all done using only the 'Astroluxe' prototype guitar which has the ability to sound like a soaring rock beast, a smooth n' sweet jazz archtop, or an alien twang machine, and all at the flick of a pickup selector switch plus my Fractal Audio Axe-FX unit!" _____ "Just guitar improvisations over guitar loops, with no other instruments. Recording very quietly to minimize the ear problem." _____ "Astroloops is an album of instrumental improvisations based on looped guitar patterns. It is limited to an edition of 24 copies only and is given exclusively to those who have bought one of the 24 Eastwood 'Astroluxe Custom Ltd' Bill Nelson signature model electric guitars. "My own prototype 'Astroluxe' guitar has been used to record the album and all the guitar parts you will hear are performed exclusively on that instrument. There are no keyboards, bass or percussion overdubs on these recordings, (with the exception of a couple of tracks where extremely minimal use of keyboard has been added). "All the guitar sounds were processed via a Fractal Audio Axe-FX digital device and a first generation Line 6 Pod 2 modeller, recording direct to a Mackie HDR 24/96 digital multitrack machine. "The music was created spontaneously and offers a glimpse of the raw first-take, stream of consciousness approach that often provides the foundation for my more commercially available work. In this instance, however, I've resisted the temptation to attempt perfection or modify/flatter the recording and instead allowed its inherent flaws to become a component of the music itself. I hope you will enjoy this private peep behind the magic curtain!" Albums Menu Future Past

Tony Goes to Tokyo The Revox Cadets single - 6 November 1981 Singles Menu Future Past TRACKS: A) To Heaven A Jet - Airfields B) The Revox Cadets - Tony Goes To Tokyo (And Rides The Bullet Train) ORIGINALLY: The b-side was a non-album track. NOTES: "Tony Goes to Tokyo" was a one-off track credited to The Revox Cadets , included as a double A side to a single entitled Airfields , issued by To Heaven a Jet on the Cocteau label. The Revox Cadets was a pseudonym used by Nelson, although he was permitted at this time to release material on Cocteau despite being under contract to Mercury. PAST RELEASES: Up until Transcorder , the track on this single had not appeared on Bill Nelson compilations. CURRENT AVAILABILITY: This track is available on the retrospective compilation album Transcorder (The Acquitted By Mirrors Recordings) . BILL'S THOUGHTS: "The Revox Cadets was not a real band, just me pretending to be one! The track was recorded at home on an analogue four track system. V.U. Disney was me too..." Singles Menu Future Past