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You can hear some of Richard's home-recorded music by clicking the links in the Titles column of the table below. Please note that music files are very large and you will have to wait quite a few minutes for each file to download if you have a standard 56K V.90 modem. I give below approximate times based on 5 Kb/second (In fact I tend to get an average of 5.5 Kb/s, so you too might get slightly quicker times. Bear in mind that there is generally less Internet traffic early morning Saturday and Sunday and this is when you could get the best download speed.) The following songs/tunes were recorded at home in Redcar at Christmas 1979.

These are compressed MP3 files requiring a zip programme such as WinZip (available from www.winzip.com) to extract (unzip) them. You should first download them to your hard disk, remembering in which folder you have saved them. Then unzip one and double click it to launch your default media player. If you are unfamiliar with this process, by clicking here, you can see more detailed instructions and examples of the dialogue boxes which will open during a download.

You will need a media handling programme such as MusicMatch JukeBox, RealOne Player, Sonique, WinAmp etc in order to play these MP3 files. These programmes can all be downloaded for free. Personally I prefer MusicMatch JukeBox, available from www.musicmatch.com and from many other sites.

Alternatively, if you have never installed a media programme, you should find that Windows Media Player (your default and only such programme) immediately launches when you double click the extracted MP3 file.

Please if the download does not work. Please e-mail me anyway if you successfully download and play the files as I need to know whether it is worth my while uploading more - quite a time-consuming business (uploading is even slower than downloading)!

THE CD FROM TENPENNY BIT: "Eight More Bars Please"
released June 2002, with Richard on drums, recorded August 2000 (FR GF 001)

Download the following tracks:

These zipped MP3 tracks can be downloaded in full. Please see above for instructions.