References to St Enoch and the Botanic Gardens were rife throughout it, with the chorus concluding “the world keeps on turning/and I keep on learning/how I long for Glasgow tonight”.
However, with many new songs being written at the time, this song was permanently shelved.
Another song I came up with in late 2021/early 2022 - with a striking similarity to Jeff Lynne’s Save Me Now - contained the segment “and I wake up in the morning/tired from the day before…”, which was also used in the final song.
After both of these projects lay in limbo for many months, on October 20th, 2022, the ‘A-side’ to the single, Stormy, was more or less written in one night in an uncharacteristic brainwave of mine. Two days later I came up with a new verse structure that I began to think could go well together with the aforementioned shelved songs - having been brought up and down respectively to the right key - although a lack of inspiration meant no new songwriting occurred that day.
On the evening of October 24th, however, an unfortunate earlier event prompted me to have another look at the song I was already working on. From this act alone, the entire song was, like Stormy, completed in only one evening, the words “I long for Glasgow” becoming “I’m gonna miss you”.
In the span of only four days, I suddenly had a new single on my hands. The main guitar and voice tracks for The World Keeps on Turning were recorded on October 26th, however, upcoming assessments and an impending family trip overseas meant little further recording was done that year (however, Here In This Place was timely released in December).
Recording resumed in February 2023. Work began on the title track with the help of my uncle, drummer Bill Lincoln, whom almost all of the drumming heard on the song is performed by, while guitar and vocal overdubs were made to The World Keeps on Turning still guided by the original tracks from October.
Both songs were completed in early May and submitted soon afterwards. I really hope you all can enjoy this new release, being my first release of non-Resignation-era material, and especially given that Stormy is my first non-acoustic song, so this is definitely the furthest I’ve officially gone so far production-wise :D
And in case you're wondering, the cover artwork you see was drawn by the amazing Lily Street, a Mornington Peninsula-based artist who drew this within two days of me requesting it (and my description of it wasn’t even that detailed!)
