Jo Clack set William Blake’s poem ‘London’ to music when we recorded our album ‘Blake Songs’ to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great artist’s birth in 2007. This was produced by Chris Fallon and engineered by Andy Haring at The Square.
This song features the wonderful Bernadine Cooke (née Blake) on violin.
I wrote this song in 1988 after hearing the song ‘I Forgot That Love Existed’ by Van Morrison on a late night radio station. I played it solo - and it later became part of The Tender Trap’s set, knock
I started to write this song on the train between Dublin and Belfast in 1988 while on tour with the singer/songwriter Tanita Tikaram. The Tender Trap recorded a demo of it in ‘89 with the money we w
This music was written by Jo Clack in 1986. I added the words and Jenny Clements played the tenor horn. We originally recorded the song at The Blue Room near the Oval which was owned by Rick Buckler o