Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin

We'd like to send you all our 'compliments of the season' (as the dustmen used to say) and assure you that we're still here and making music. We hope to release a new Stewart / Gaskin album in 2013: ten tracks are currently on the assembly line, mainly Dave Stewart originals. Nowadays the production process is nowhere near as tortuous as it was in the "good old days", when tracks such as 'Busy Doing Nothing' required two 24-track 2" tape recorders and numerous tape edits to lash all their musical sections together. If you're interested in reading about our pre-digital era recording methods and their evolution to the present day, Dave's article Time Trial (first published in 2010 in Sound On Sound, UK) explains the gory details.

We're a little concerned that of the seven billion people estimated to be alive on the planet, only 687 have so far said they 'like' us on Facebook. This means that up to 6,000,999,313 other people potentially dislike us. We therefore ask you to help tip the balance in our favour by 'liking' us on Facebook. Tell ten million friends to do the same, and we'll soon get there!

Dave's online Inside The Music article deconstructs the stellar ballad 'Star Blind' from Spin. The article features audio clips and music notation to help you figure out the chords (which aren't your standard E, A & B changes) - you can read it here.