General YouTube Songs
A collection of songs I have written as YouTube videos or from live performance
Released: 23 December 2009
Track Listing
Amy Winehouse: ToastOriginalStudio
An Amy Winehouse pastiche about toast. From The Seven Deadly Jokes, Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
11 June 2010
Juste quand tu pensais que c'était sûrOriginal
A song about Jaws in French. Bad French.
24 March 2021Waiting for Christmas 2021Parody
A Christmas song about Christmas going wrong, a parody of Walking in a Winter Wonderland. This was the Michael Buble track with his vocals removed and mine added. This was an early example of using stem separation to reuse "real tracks".
3 December 2021It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like LockdownParody
A parody of the Christmas song "It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas", based on a Tweet from Tony Cowards, which I extended to a fully parody and then sang
24 December 2021Grow Your Bush to Save the World - Original videoOriginal
The original mix of this with a lyric video. I loved the sound of this song musically, but I couldn't quite get it to work live and friends were less convinced about it
17 May 2022Messing Around with Gnarls BarkleyParodyLive
One of the earliest examples of this song being done live as it started to become a permanent fixture in my set
16 November 2022What's Going on With Elon?Original
One of far too many songs I've written about the awful tech bro
17 November 2022The Secret`s OutImprovised
A bit of early banter in the show from the MC led me to sing some secrets from the audience member in question
22 December 2022Messing Around with Gnarls Barkley - Where the audience are really up for itParodyLive
Very keen Welsh audience wanted to play along
12 February 2023New Guy on the Weekly Call - Original music videoOriginal
Based on a real New Guy, this was written in a hurry and then produced over a huge number of hours of arranging, recording, and videoing
1 July 2023Billie Eilish vs Potato MasherOriginal
My usual joke challenge format, but written at home and ending with a song
20 September 2023