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No Enemy Outside

I hope you enjoy my new song ‘No Enemy Outside’.

If you enjoy it please take a moment to save on Spotify- every save helps the music to travel on and be recommended to more listeners. Thanks! 🙂


It’s inspired by my love of those lovely spiritual George Harrison songs he did after leaving The Beatles like ‘All Things Must Pass’. It’s a song of peace. It’s about how the deep, dark, distant origin of war is the imaginary idea that other humans are separate and different to us.

It’s a long, long journey to that beautiful country that exists before any sense of resentment or ‘othering’ begins- but you have to dream!

It’s also about a state of mind- a delicious feeling of letting go of resentment and anger. But also how the space that is left behind when anger is gone is scary- emptiness is both beautiful and scary.

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No Enemy

No Enemy is a song about someone who spent years full of hate. When the hate fades they feel empty, because all that hating had filled their life. But, in the song the scary emptiness the person feels is beautiful and full of possibilities.

It was originally inspired by a wonderful recent episode of Doctor Who called ‘Boom’ about a race of aliens fighting an imaginary army. So it has a touch of sci-fi.

I’ve done two versions that you can hear on the playlist. One has a squillion harmoniums, guitars, harmonicas, layered vocals, drums and digital stuff. The other is just two guitars, vocals, slapped knees, and a blackbird singing.

Hear No Enemy, a playlist on #SoundCloud.