I just finished a demo trying to capture Alice’s interaction with the Caterpillar (without resorting to drug theme, which kinda misses the point anyway):

What better way to spend the early morning hours of the first day of 2026 finishing a song demo! Here’s Bill:

I just finished the third song — A Sad Tail — which recounts Alice interpreting the Mouse’s story as gibberish and then looking at his tail and wondering how it could be sad:

Here’s song #2 for Wonderland Revisited: It’s called Poor Alice:

I just finished the first demo for Wonderland Revisited; it’s called Down, Down, Down:

I started composing work over the weekend on the next Mortal Fools gig: Wonderland Revisited. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was Lewis Carroll’s first novel, published in 1865 though begun two years earlier as a real-time invention as Carroll was boating with friend and his three kids. It stands among firsts in children’s literature as well […]

I just received a very gracious but still “no go” response on using 1984 for our next Mortal Fools gig. There was no compelling reason offered beyond an oblique reference to other projects in development with the Orwell Estate. Perhaps they’re negotiating with a better-known band? Anyway, I’m disappointed but not overly surprised. And there […]

OK, so I decided to swing for the fences and ask the Orwell Estate for its permission to write a Mortal Fools show based on the novel 1984. For fans of copyright, you probably know that the estate famously denied David Bowie’s request in 1974 (he subsequently issued a few songs not quite based on […]