Author Archives: joshbeachmusic

Never Surrender; inspired by the courage of the soldiers fighting Russian troops in Ukraine, and leaders that lead, rather than relying on bluster and hyperbole.

Thursday 16th June, 2022. When your hobby goes up a notch. Thank you to Stratas for inviting me along.

Those awkward discos before you didn’t care that you couldn’t dance.

A remixed, remastered and in part re-recorded version of Not Selling Newspapers.

This is the latest playlist featuring Everybody Boogaloo and The Booksellers’ road to Apprehension. There’s a couple of other tunes on there – a lot of use of sampling and manipulating beats and brass parts – hopefully quite a fun and funky collection of tunes. You might notice: Amen Brother- The Winstons (in Everybody Boogaloo)Continue reading “A New Playlist”

Built on a 10 second drum break from James Brown’s Funky Drummer, this is a song about a carefree night in Soho, with a couple of bright young things stumbling into a dive bar jazz club where we meet the band, and a fabulous woman playing double bass. Lyrics: It’s a quarter to ten onContinue reading “The Bookseller’s Road to Apprehension Big band”

Funky disco tune to get your feet moving and your ass shaking.

New Record. 11 new songs. Give it a listen!

A new version of a song I wrote last year, but this time with the vocal cleaned up and layered, the addition of some Oos in the chorus, a flute, and some guitar loops thrown in for good measure. I’m hoping for a song that kind of floats along nicely, with hints of The CardigansContinue reading “A Drink For One”