*Wind, Tides and Trouble* is a collection of maritime songs inspired by sailing, life afloat, the East Coast, the people who share it, and the weather that so often has the final say.
The album moves between traditional folk, maritime ballads, humour, orchestral pieces and more contemporary styles, but the sea remains the thread running through it all. Some songs are personal, reflecting the freedom and frustration of living aboard and sailing for pleasure; others draw on real places, club history, misadventures, quiet moments, hard weather and the peculiar humour that comes with boats.
There are songs about drifting nowhere, running aground, arguing with the wind, loving a yacht despite everything she throws at you, and the camaraderie found around a sailing club. Alongside the lighter moments are more reflective pieces, including *Someone Must Go*, a tribute to those who leave safety behind when somebody is in trouble at sea.
Taken together, the songs are not really about perfect sailing. They are about the reality of it: wind, tide, mud, weather, mistakes, friendship, independence and the simple pleasure of being afloat.
That is *Wind, Tides and Trouble*.
Track list
| 1 | Sail the Green Tide A bright maritime folk song built around the rhythm of the sea, with a strong homeward-looking chorus and the feel of a traditional sailing song given a modern polish. |
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Freedom Afloat
A personal celebration of life aboard: the freedom, the maintenance, the weather, the sailing and the quiet satisfaction of making a boat your home. |
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| 3 | Heave on the River Crouch A lively East Coast river song following the Crouch from Battlesbridge through Fambridge and Burnham towards the open sea, capturing its mudbanks, tides, weather and sailing life. |
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| 4 | Dance With the Tide A warm, Latin-tinged maritime song about accepting the sea on its own terms — moving with the wind and water rather than trying to command them. |
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| 5 | The Wind Has Other Plans A humorous reminder that however carefully a sailor checks the forecast and plots the course, the wind invariably has ideas of its own. |
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| 6 | North Fambridge Yacht Club A musical history of the club, from its beginnings in 1898, through wartime loss and eventual rebirth, to the generations of members who continue to keep it alive. |
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| 7 | Three Knots & Nowhere A deadpan sailing comedy about one of those painfully slow days when the wind disappears, the tide works against you and the same buoy seems to remain alongside for hours. |
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| 8 | Sail On A more dramatic seafaring ballad of departure, difficult passages and endurance, with memories of home providing the steady point when weather, distance and fear begin to take over. |
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| 9 | Tidebreak Overture An instrumental maritime piece that moves from solitary woodwind into a broad orchestral sailing theme, building through rougher waters to a full, sweeping climax. |
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| 10 | She Carries Me Home A love song to a yacht — not an idealised one, but the real relationship between sailor and boat: leaks, repairs, hard weather, trust and the feeling that stepping aboard means coming home. |
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| 11 | Of Course It Will Murphy’s Law goes sailing. Tools disappear into bilges, equipment waits for the worst possible moment to fail, and every supposedly simple job finds a way of becoming complicated. |
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| 12 | Someone Must Go A tribute to those who voluntarily leave safety and family behind when somebody is in danger at sea, knowing exactly what the risks may be and going anyway. |
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| 13 | Parked It on a Shelf An affectionate East Coast sailing joke about running aground, sitting at an embarrassing angle while the tide disappears, and maintaining with absolute confidence that it was all entirely deliberate. |
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| 14 | Sail the Green Tide — Instrumental An instrumental reprise of the opening track, bringing the album back to its original melody and giving the record a quieter, circular ending. |
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| 15 | Someone Must Go V2 — Bonus Track A reimagining of Someone Must Go, with alternating male and female verses and a full choir in the chorus, broadening the song from an individual story into something more communal and powerful. |