A Deep Third Man

I Once heard a tip from Stephen Sondheim about songwriting. He said don't write about what you think other people might want to hear, write about your own experiences, because that's what's really interesting.

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So that's what I did with "A Deep Third Man", I wrote about my world: the people I've met; the things I've done; the stuff I've seen and the sheer madness I seem to see all around me. The older I get, the madder it seems.

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I was asked recently what the main themes of the album were and I struggled to answer because there seem to be so many. After a bit of thought, I decided they could be boiled down into four main areas: love, loss, injustice and growing old.

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There is one central theme that runs right through the album and indeed, through every part of my life. It's best summed up in the words of a brilliant Mancunian poet called Tony Walsh:

 

Choose love.​