A Good Old Fashioned Christmas - The Words To The Song...

We'd like to think that the song has a bit of a heart... Have a look at the video if you haven't done so and this time I've added the lyrics so you can get the full picture...

The song is available from iTunes and Amazon and 20% of all sales for all time goes to The Big Issue Foundation helping the homeless to help themselves... Buy on iTunes

Ho Ho Ho Ho!

Do you wish you had a stash of cash to blow?

Well, we're all in the same boat – who’s got the dough?

So come on buck the trend

We can all make do and mend

Just dust off last year’s trimmings - who’s to know?

And does it feel as if your back's against the wall?

Well, it’s the Christmas thoughts that count, however small

Forget those winter blues, don't stand shivering in the queues

Cause peace and understanding is the greatest gift of all

Let’s have a Good Old Fashioned Christmas

With sleigh bells in the snow

A Good Old Fashioned Christmas

Like the ones we used to know

Peace and understanding is the greatest gift of all

So let’s all have a Good Old Fashioned Christmas

Do you wish that you could ride on Santa’s sleigh?

And leave your cares and worries far away

Well, we all hold the key to set the world free

So let’s lend the hand of friendship everyday.

At Christmas there's no room

For all that gloom and doom

The newsman gives us every blooming day

Just go that extra mile

And in a little while your Christmas smile will twinkle all the way!

Let’s have a Good Old Fashioned Christmas

With sleigh bells in the snow

A Good Old Fashioned Christmas

Like the ones we used to know

Peace and understanding is the greatest gift of all

So let’s all have a Good Old Fashioned Christmas

and the choir sang...

Let's all have a Good Old Fashioned Christmas-time for everyone

Let's all give the greatest gift...

copyright 2013 Skyhook Studios

BBC Radio Gloucestershire: Spreading The Christmas Cheer

Look - I don't normally have this beard...it just grew! It's all in a good cause and I'll be shaving it off for charity at the end of the year... (Mrs I is looking forward to that!)

It's not Santa, it's David Ireland - hear how he's getting in the Christmas spirit at 4:15pm http://bbc.in/NefzOJ  pic.twitter.com/hxs6Tj1saO The piece starts at 1hour 44minutes in.

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BBC Radio Gloucestershire - Claire Carter, Christmas Charity Single

Hear how a group of musicians in Stroud are raising money for the Big Issue Foundation.
Watch the video here...

The Big Issue Foundation News Update

A Good Old Fashioned Christmas

We are always extremely excited when people choose to use their talents and skills to raise funds and awareness for The Big Issue Foundation.  Just like musician David Ireland, was inspired by the Big Issue's philosophy that every one of us can make a small difference and so, together, contribute to real, significant and lasting change.

Skyhook Studios who produced David’s latest single, A Good Old Fashioned Christmas, is donating 20 per cent of all sales and royalties from the single to The Big Issue Foundation and hopes that it can also demonstrate how little it takes to change a life.

"We are absolutely delighted that the first record we're producing is for such a wonderful cause," says Chris Aylmer, owner of Skyhook Studios. "We hope it will go some way to make a difference to the work The Big Issue Foundation is doing in the UK."

Could you use your skills or talents to support the work of The Big Issue Foundation? If so get in touch here.

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A Little Side Step From Cosmic Glue...The New Single is OUT!

Well, there we were on the hottest day of the year, holed up in the studio ready to lay down some more tracks for the forthcoming album, Cosmic Glue...when I happened to strum the chords for 'A Good Old Fashioned Christmas'.

Sitting there in shorts and t-shirts and healthy tans we recorded the first takes of the song destined to become the first single from the new project.

Now it's November, I have a full beard, the single is out and we're officially supporting The Big Issue Foundation - for now and evermore!

Sooo... watch the video, download the tune and tell all of your friends.

Help us to lend a helping hand.

Buy the song on iTunes

Playing With Myself... (or should I re-phrase that?)

The Cosmic Glue recordings are moving forward beautifully with the seamless integration of new tracks coupled with some re-worked masters from 1977.

So there I was last evening, back in the studio in Stroud where this year's magic is happening, working on one of the '77 tracks, adding new vocals, new lyrics, with my younger self laying down some killer acoustic guitar, and those groovy harmony vocals over the top of my May 2013 vocalising.

I finally got it right.

The track was called Jungle Love - now it's called Poison Pen. It was always a nice dirty slice of rock (with searing guitar throughout courtesy of Hans van Epen) and now it has turned into a menacing piece of acoustic grunge all about a crime novelist and his twisted mind...

(have a little read of my book Slow Poison to get a feel of what I mean...

I'll also add a little of the rough mix of Poison Pen.

Once the rest of the album has been recorded, there will be some live gigs around the country and beyond. I have the tunes, I have the band...so you might just catch us live somewhere soon...

 

Cosmic Glue Time Travel Sessions

Well...I finally began the last phase of the Cosmic Glue sessions...

Monday evening found me singing new lyrics to a couple of my 1977 'Hot As Ice' master tracks. There was an eerie normality about    singing in 2013 with my younger self harmonising and singing back-ups.

The engineer could hardly hear the difference. I could hardly hear the difference either. (I don't have an operatic voice - so there was little that was going to change - plus I still have whatever range I used to have)

The musicians from '77 haven't met the 2013 guys, but the blend is seamless. Last night there was my good friend Jan Stavinoha playing his exquisite bossa nova 1977 guitar with my new friend Chris adding a little 2013 Getz to the track. Sublime!

There are some more of the 'old ' tracks to vocalise and then we're on to the mixing phase. The new guys will be going out on the road with me too...there is indeed life in the old dog yet!

I'll add a little snippet of sound to keep you going...there will be much more soon...

Wings To Fly (in Sixty Seconds)

Cosmic Glue - Worlds Collide...

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I'm crashing toward completion on the Cosmic Glue project.

I have a couple of studio dates next week when everything comes together. The definitive vocals will be added to both new and old songs.

I've stripped back some of the 1977 recordings to their essence so that I can build them as though they were completely new recordings. It seems to be working.

Songs that seemed fixed in stone have taken on new characteristics, a new freshness and relevance.

Some of my current collaborators are working with me on tracks from both eras, making the link complete.

I'm in touch with some of the 1977 crew and who knows what might happen when the album is released... I rule nothing out.

There will be some selected concerts throughout the year with a full-blown tour in 2014.

Those Peter Pan Pills I took back then have kept my inner self as young as ever... (it's only the mirror that reminds me of the passing years)

I've added a few new images and a clip of a work-in-progress song from Cosmic Glue.

Technology has given me the chance for a little taste of Time Travelling...you should try it too!