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(the stuff I've recorded over the years....) |
When the Madness Ends (cassette 1995) |
Tracks Fantasy Reality / WhatTo Say / Life Moves On / Stop It (Now) / When you Came / Another Piece of News / I Ain't Gonna Think About You / Wake Me When The Madness Ends / Man Behind the Mask / I Need Someone |
Recordings by Full Circle (Phil Lewis & Nigel Wiggins) |
Set Your Sights (cassette 1996) |
Tracks Set Your Sights (version 1) / Another Saturday Night / Shine / Hope Tomorrow / Keep On Believing / Set Your Sights (version 2) / I Say A Prayer / Still / In Heaven / Another Piece of News / Wake Me When the Madness Ends |
Recordings by Phil Lewis |
Demographic (cassette 1996) |
Tracks Tumbling Down / It's Your Day / So Beautiful / Stumble On / Hope Tomorrow / A Million Dollars |
Better (cassette 1996) |
Tracks Fantasy Reality / Stream of Consciousness / It's Not Like This in the Movies / Fade Away / How Long / Set Your Sights |
Fidei Defensor Compilation (CD & cassette 1997) |
Tracks Fantasy Reality (Lawson Dando remix) / Fade Away / Tunbling Down / So Beautiful / Stream Of Consciousness / A Million Dollars / Set Your Sights / Man Behind the Mask |
Generation Ecstacy (CD 1997) |
Tracks Coming to You / Your Tune / Child / Dark Days / Come Running / In Heaven |
Full Circle (CD 1999) |
Tracks Damaged / New Star / Over You / Little Boy Lost / Perfect Moment / BrotherSister / Feel the Fire |
Whispering (CD 2005) |
Tracks Cruising / Hey Sha La La / Fragile / Back to Life / Eyes of God / Come Running / Libertaion Day / Whispering / Life Feels Good / Set Your Sights / Lost |
Ancient Light (CD 2007) |
Tracks Is Anybody Home / Don't Give Up, Don't Give In / In Your Embrace / No Accident / Misunderstood / Brand New Day / Beautiful / Run to Win / More of You / (untitled bonus track) |
Biography |
(A bit about who I am) |
Early influences One of my fondest and most enduring memories from my childhood, is the weekly family ritual of gathering around the radio on a Sunday evening and listening to the Top 40 rundown. It didn't take long before I started thinking that I'd like to make the kind of music that I was hearing. I wrote my first song when I was about 12. It was called "U.F.O." and it was about, er……a U.F.O. But in my defence, I was only 12. As my main exposure to music was through whatever was in the top 40, I soaked up a variety of different styles of music. Early on, I took a particular liking to Rap music and Rock music. I was even a breakdancer for a little while back then. In school, everybody told me that I couldn't possibly like rap and rock because they were too different. Then Run DMC and Aerosmith released "Walk This Way" and proved that I was right all along. In fact, my copy of the Beastie Boys "Liscenced To Ill" went round the whole of my school year after I innocently lent it to one freind thinking he might like it. As I've grown up, I've decided that I like a whole bunch of different types of music. My current favourite artists are Prince, U2, Crowded House and Stevie Wonder, but that can change on a daily basis. |
Early songwriting By the time I started working, I had bought my first guitar, taught myself the basics and started to write songs 'properly'. I have now written quite a few songs, some good and some not so good. And to answer your question, no - I haven't written any more songs about U.F.O.'s………yet! Recording I started booking time in local studios and working with friends who were also musicians. The results were made available as a series of demo tapes; "When the Madness Ends", "Set Your Sights", "Demographic", "Fidei Defensor", "Generation Ecstasy" and "Full Circle", which were sent out to magazines, fanzines, record companies and the like. Most of the tapes received a warm reception - comments included; "Wales finest unsigned writer.." (NFN Oct97), "An engaging singer/songwriter who seems to fuse retro and contemporary……to find his own quirky individuality" (Cross Rhythms Dec96/Jan97), "Tuneful and confident" (Repeat fanzine #10), "Refreshingly pleasant, adult style pop" (Snakebite fanzine issue 5). Recording became more expensive though and, due to my inability to hold a band together for long, I rarely got the chance to play live. So I hung up my guitar and wrote songs only if there was something clawing it's way out. |
After a hiatus of about 6 years I recorded my first full length album, 'Whispering'. The songs were strong, the experience of recording it was great, but I wasn't really happy with the finished product. Mid-way through 2006, for no apparent reason, I just started writing songs again - and I felt my songwriting abilities had gone up another notch. So I decided to record them, with the first person I'd ever recorded songs with - Lawson Dando, who had recently returned from a stint as the keyboard player with the Incredible String Band and was keen to get back into production work. I encouraged my most talented freinds to come along, and together we recorded "Ancient Light". We were aiming for a blend of U2, REM, James and Crowded House, but I'm sure a few other influences found their way in there as well. "Ancient Light" received consistently warm reviews. This spurred me on to write some more songs with a commercially mature sound. I contacted my freind Ban (who played much of the guitar on "Aniceint Light") and we made arrangements to do some recording. Originally intended to be sparse, acoustic batch of songs, we soon realised that the songs were calling for 'bigger' arrangements. So we ended up with a fully instrumentalised batch of songs. Whilst recording, I was signed by LPW Records and also released my first single, Just One Kiss. Since then, more singles have been released and the new album, "Movements in Space", will be released by LPW Records in 2010. |
This website and all sound, vision and information on it is (p) & (c) Phil Lewis |
Samples of three songs from When the Madness Ends |
Samples of three songs from Demographic |
Samples of five songs from Better |
Samples of four songs from Generation Ecstacy |
Samples of four songs from Full Circle |
Samples of six songs from Whispering |
Samples of all songs from Ancient Light |
No Cover Art Available |
Singer / Songwriter |
Discography |
Just One Kiss (Download 2008) |
Tracks Just One Kiss / Let's Play |
Sad (Download 2009) |
Tracks Sad / Shine |
Dumb & Stupid (Download 2009) |
Tracks Dumb & Stupid / It Never Stops |
New Star (Download 2010) |
Tracks New Star / New Star...Get Me Out Of Here Remix |
Movements In Space (Download 2010) |
Tracks Intro / Let's Play / Sad / Just One Kiss / Shine / Sadness So Beautiful / Burn Burn Burn / It Never Stops / New Star / Now That the Lights Are Out / Dumb & Stupid / One Step at a Time |
Samples of all songs from Movements in Space |