Artwork contributed by Steve Munro

Oh welcome, dear blog readers, to my next release. I come to you LIVE from the viscous waste that occupies my poor sleepless brain. Only my third release in for the year, barely into February, and I have proof that this project may indeed compromise my fragile sanity. Given a more hectic then usual twist to life, this writing and recording rapidly eats into the time I set aside for not being awake. BLAM... farewell sleep, hello burgeoning neuroses.

Oh so much to talk about, many ideas have come together here. These topics are thrice...

1- So quickly about the track. I wrote it all very recently. Very much based around the 1st verse lyrics and the guitar percussion rhythm that come in half way through. My poor tortured guitar named Delilah, sorry for hitting you so much dear

Everything very quickly built up around this into what you hear. I think I put my microphone (Shure Beta58) in about 50 places around my room looking for a spot to make it sound (what I think of as) awesome, finally landing inside the box which holds up my computer screen

2- Followers of my songs over the years will notice that there aren't a great deal of "I'm in love" song in there, so this, just in time for valentines day, is something of a departure for me thematically and th... oh sorry, what was that...? Is it because...? Oh yes OK its because I have a new love (new love? old love? new love?) and am pretty damned happy about it. So here's a song dedication (also something I don't really do) to being in love, to valentine's day and to Emma xx

3- The third exciting thing for this song is that you'll notice the art work is a wonderful painting by artists, photgrapher and cinematographer (and my fine friend) Mr Steve Munro. I have been hoping to incorporate into the "Tiny Crooked Orchestra" project several crossings of the general boundaries of genres and art mediums and would love to feature works by Australian artists on as many of the song graphics as I can. Steve very kindly offered this work for 'Fire'

To go with this, you'll notice that I've put the price of a track up to $2. Whenever I feature an art work, I will do this and split the profit from the the track with the visual artist. Or I'll also still offering the track for free is you share it with 3 of your friends. You'll also be diseminating the art provided. So please listen to 'Fire' and then go visit Steve's pages to see his wide range of work and buy copies and prints of what you see

stevemunro.com.au - For some of his photography work
wide-angle.tv - For some of his film work
www.redbubble.com/people/stevemunro - for sales and prints of Steve's photography and art