It’s expensive to press in small quantities!

Impromptu #1: Anywhere you wish to go

open.spotify.com/track/0oXLGi...

Only took took 45 years! But very nice, - the guy who bought my album in 1981 left it in his collection and his daughter found it! 🙏👍 🎶

Thanks for asking, Carla. Yes every lead vocal in “A Songwriter’s Tale” is by “my good self!” Glad you like it. Mx

Still hunting that SNARK!- audio reconstruction and 2026 plans (And testing out the video capability of substack)

Something with AI, but without slop: mikebatt.substack.com/p/still-hunt...

Thanks. Watch out for the full audio “reconstruction” of it - to be released on OCTOBER 30th. 🥳🎶

Impromptu #1: Anywhere you wish to go

HOORAY! It's "release day" for my 3 impromtus for PIANO WITH BENEFITS . But the SPOTIFY links for all three are:
1. open.spotify.com/track/0oXLGi...
2. open.spotify.com/track/2QWSb7...
3.
open.spotify.com/track/5vyIo9...

VIDEO OF #2 (THE FLOWER CLOUD:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoVu...

Thanks for posting this Carla. 🙂

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"Excuse me, Maestro but who the fuck do you think you are?" #pretentious #moi ?

When I was young we worked out the cost of everything in pints of Guinness. So if studio time was £8 per hour and Guiness was 2/6d a pint (eight to the pound) that meant the studio time was 64 pints of Guiness per hour. (A sobering thought).

Whoever would ever write a piece of music called "Sad Bit After Gordon Is Sacked"? Well... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFGq...

Mike Batt - Zero Zero Part 7: The Dance Of The Neurosurgeons YouTube video by Mike Batt

A clip of me getting a lobotomy from my wife. (In ZeroZero)- the girl with no face is now my wife. Shoutout also to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGj1...

"Excuse me, Maestro but who the fuck do you think you are?" #pretentious #moi ?

That often happens. People even go off Beethoven’s 5th because they know it too well, then start enjoying it later. Not that I’m comparing myself to the great man!

I'm trying to think of something to put out to mark the 150th anniversary (on April 1st) of Lewis Carroll's HUNTING OF THE SNARK. Maybe this single? (Comments welcome)…

Renée Z and Meryl S in “Only Murders In The Building”!!! 👌🤩

🙏 Thanks. It wasn’t successful in the UK though. Very big in Europe South Africa, Australasia.

That’s lovely. Was your father a musician? Well obviously. What was his name?

Is there another? 🙂

Oops- it’s WORLD BOOK DAY and I haven’t even mentioned my autobiography #TheClosestThingToCrazy . It must be my modest disposition. 😬

Atchly- not me, guv. I did "All Around My Hat" and their following album, Rocket Cottage. 🙂

🙂

My tribute to President Zelensky and all Ukrainians. 🙏

No namby-pamby probation officers in it, then, Jonathan?

A lucky moment...

You can’t fool me- that toilet is actually made of cake, - and very clever it is, too! (Jane Asher, perchance?)

STOP PRESS

The depictions of Wellington and Tobermory lead me to think that this is “new regime” merchandise rather than vintage. Is that right, Frederick?

Album cover for the CD release of Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark.

Well, you learn something new every day - today it's that @mikebatt.bsky.social wrote the song used as the theme tune for BBC's Big Break. Performed by Captain Sensible, The Snooker Song appeared on The Hunting of the Snark, which I've just acquired and am listening to for the first time!