'Official' recordings listed by year

The first collection of songs were recorded in 1976 at Acorn Studio Stonesfield (later Solid State Logic's home studio) with Rob Hundley on bass - these recordings now serve up amusement and acute embarrassment in equal measure - hence are not listed here! There are also numerous songs that have only been recorded as notepad demos or live - which also are not listed.

1980
First demo

• If you wanna dance - listen to the band play
• Don't mess with me
• Baby won't come back
• Don't know the rules
• Communique
• All the girls together
• Need your love today
• Although it's over now

as E.S.D.B

• RB - guitar, vocal
• Bob Prowse - guitar, production
• David Smith - bass
• Ian Campbell - drums
• Terry Alderton - production

1981
Hey Camilla

• Hey Camilla *
• Girls in trouble *
• Even when I'm with you *
• Show me the way into your dreams *
• In at the kill *
• International *
• Landing light
• When you're there
• Whispers in the corner (live)

as E.S.D.B

• RB - guitar, vocal
• Bob Prowse - guitar, production
• David Smith - bass
• Ian Campbell - drums
• Terry Alderton - production*

1982
Dance Therapy (the five finger crawl)

• Trust me
• You are the one
• Running out of air
• Fill it with fire
• Truth in what we say
• That's the way that it goes
• Dance therapy
• a - animated dancer
• b - soul to soul
• c - funk on my radio
• d - basin blues 84
• e - you're so mechanical
• The sea in April
• Falling away
• Don't give me ......

as E.S.D.B

• RB - guitar, vocal
• Bob Prowse - guitar, production
• David Smith - bass
• Ian Campbell - drums

1983
A New U

• Real world
• A new U
• Kiss me strong
• Feels like heaven
• Acrobat of love
• Silent sympathy
• Girl in chains

as A New U

• RB - guitar, vocal
• Bob Prowse - guitar, production
• David Smith - bass
• Ian Campbell - drums
• Robert Gripper - keyboards
• Barbara Thompson - vocals

1984
Second Sight - Polygram Far East

• Tonight You Are
• A letter to you

artist Tracy Huang

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• Ramli Shariff - bass
• Spencer Chan - keyboards
• Tony Zee - drums
• Eric Yeo - production

and

• Spirits as one

artist Christina Ong

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• John Herbert - production

1985

• Price of their love
• Marion

as Repeal the beating heart

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• Mark Sweeney - bass
• John Sissons - drums
• Robert Gripper - production

1986
Quite Suddenly Last September

• My heart defends
• Blue blue moments
• Running for the train
• Gloria

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, keyboards, vocal
• Bob Prowse - guitar, production
• David Smith - bass
• Ian Campbell - drums

1987
Not Just Not Here

• I'll say I was right
• Don't give me the pleasure of leaving you
• Running in the rain
• Maybe your love
• Times like these
• Is this really England

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• Paul Kelly (PK) - sax, vocal, production

1988
Les Dawson Plays Herbie Hancock

• Done and over in L.A.
• Finally we're through
• Sometimes you can be cold
• Solo
• Down the line
• Maybe your love
• A soft summer rain
• E. Scott shuffle (the duckwalk)

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• Bob Prowse - bass, production
• Mick Hayes - sax (alto, soprano), flute
• David Peters - bass
• Kevin Deegan - keyboards
• Robert Hundley - fretless bass

1989
Pools Of Light Surrounded By Darkness

• Madman on the line
• Head over her heart
• Some-one's going to cry
• An uncommon arrangement
• Boxes and sacks

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• Bob Prowse - bass, production
• Mick Hayes - sax (alto, soprano), flute

1990
Trial By Television

• Janet and John grew up
• Trial by television
• Instant religion
• Beneath the defensive

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards
• Bob Prowse - bass, production
• Mick Hayes - sax (alto, soprano), flute

1992
Singapore Pop

• House of love
• Groove Dr
• I long (oriental tune)
• The first time will be the last time
• Money and love

as Singapore Pop

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards, programming
• Christina Ong - vocal

1993
The Confectioners Weakness

• Between forty and four
• Love'll find me
• Unfaithful one
• May be may not (sweet vitality screaming)
• Neurotic notions
• Fatman in a taxi
• Song for a new friend
• Charlotte
• The Cherrythief
• Holiday poem
• Island girl
• Waiting for that face
• Feel me breathe
• Skylark over Transfer Bridge

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards, programming
• Paul Henry - guitar
• Dave Gregory - guitar
• Mick Hayes - sax (alto, soprano), flute

1995
Typical Heads

• Typical heads
• Never be peace
• Always
• We know who you are
• Invisible legacy
• Binary life
• There is a happy land
• New flesh
• Stephen knows nothing
• Praying for rain
• Man in an office
• Holiday for the working man
• You wanted it all so badly
• New lit candle
• Time is not a road to walk down
• Anni's song

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards, programming
• Mick Hayes - sax (alto, soprano), flute

1996
Inbetweentimes

• Stuff
• Tellme
• Joanne
• Antimary
• Beatoftheart
• Clubbinit

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, vocal, keyboards, programming
• Mick Hayes - sax (alto, soprano), flute
• Pete Lamb - production

1997
Music for schools
Music to accompany "The Selfish Giant"
as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, keyboards, programming

1998
Music for schools
Music to accompany "We're going on a bear hunt"
as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - guitar, keyboards, programming

2000
The Year I Forgot Who I Was

• Sometime soon
• You changed
• You may find yourself
• Make the world still
• Don't cry anymore
• Perfect imperfect
• They go shopping
• and the rain it fell
• They never wanted to be
• Love songs for grown ups
• The year I forgot who I was
• River of Blood
• Microcosm

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2001
Aural Candy

• Gone
• Hurt
• Only Nick Lowe

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2003
Small boy in a room of broken toys

• Small boy in a room of broken toys
• Guess who that was
• I am but a fool (version 2)
• No one to talk to but the wind
• Mitchell's legacy
• The wedding of the May Queen
• Tell her now
• Portrait of the artist as a piece of string
• Anything
• Riverside girls
• I am but a fool (version 1)
• Time and tide
• Knitting/Virus/f.o.m.r
• You don't know shit
• Portrait of the artist (acoustic mix)

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2003
In the spirit of enchantment

• Cubist
• The fire of the soul
• The allure of the sparkling pool
• Hush
• Three for leaning
• Riverside girls (2)
• Dance of silence
• The spectre of war
• Darkness

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2005
Unreliable Witness

• Dance you buggers dance
• Where were you when I didn't need you?
• Country life, town life
• The big deal
• The river
• Playing with my heart
• Angry
• Welcome to now
• Thanksgiving day
• Come close
• The lout is free
• Unreliable witness (extra track)

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2006
Random thoughts and production line songs 1

• 1812
• best enjoyed alone
• girl and the double rainbow
• halloweenlofilatinfunthrash
• kicking for sport
• laugh
• lie to me
• madcap requiem
• matilda dances
• tail lights in the fog
• the chipped heart
• the other woman
• tomorrow's heartbeats
• cross town bus
• maybe I don't care
• going home
• bottle of joy

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2007
Random thoughts and production line songs 2

• addict
• blind
• did I say something wrong
• down down down
• find a way to amaze
• hey little dreamer
• silk scarf and sofa
• watch the skies
• under a brooding sky
• watch the blood run
• greens groove
• running from the answer
• cry yourself to sleep
• bond retro theme (strictly 2008)

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2008
Sweetheart of the raceway
(a thank you to some of the Country/Rock influences of my youth)

• sweetheart of the raceway
• heartbreak in three acts
• trailer park mamma
• the fallen
• lullaby
• eloise
• social insecurity
• blue mountain ska
• the traveller
• troubadour heart
• the other woman
• running from the answer
• country shuffle

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

Random thoughts and production line songs 3

• death of an atheist
• you're not on my mind

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2009
Funkty HaHa

• amaze yourself
• delerious
• talking numbers
• cry an ocean

as Fakermonkeys

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards
• Mike Anstey - guitars
• Paul Yallop - bass
• Ant Henderson - drums

plus
Random thoughts and production line songs 4

• go
• sex changes everything
• my meteor

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2010
Flag

• Nightfall
• Wait
• Death of and atheist
• My Meteor
• Waiting for the rain
• Once I was a dreamer
• Hey little dreamer
• Cry
• Dancing at arms length
• Down down down
• The last party
• Addict
• The silk scarfe and sofa
• Cold

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

plus
Random thoughts and production line songs 5

• Bad Night
• God's Fridy Night Blues
• She's Evil
• Watch the skies (reworked)
• Old Fox
• Not as easy as that..
• Better than watching TV
• The girl from Matalan
• Helpless in the wake of progress
• Shake it with me
• The not quite girl

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

2011
Random thoughts and production line songs 6

• Curtain of tears - written for and sung by Michaela Hinton
• An invisible man
• Hold tight

as Rob Beckinsale

• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

Extended Playtime One EP

• New shoes
• Down down down
• Rollercoaster
• Dead weight

as auralcandy

• Mike Anstey - guitar, mix, mastering
• Chris Kerslake - bass guitar
• Jon Kerslake - drums and percussion (acoustic and electric)
• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

(released on the rawtunes label - 10" vinyl and digital download only)

2013

by charing cross station I lay down and slept

• highway song
• it hasn't rained for a week
• as easy as that
• rise and fall
• drinking song

as auralcandy

• Mike Anstey - guitar, mix, mastering
• Chris Kerslake - bass guitar
• Jon Kerslake - drums and percussion (acoustic and electric)
• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

(released on the rawtunes label - CD and digital download)

2014

occasional moments of clarity

• toxic butterfly effect
• gloriana
• i'm a piece of paper
• beast of the art
• always standing in someone else's glory
• the day the swallows went away
• trapped
• the burden
• build your own destiny now
• nightfalls

as auralcandy

• Mike Anstey - guitar, mix, mastering
• Chris Kerslake - bass guitar
• Jon Kerslake - drums and cajon
• Alan Bateman - alto/baritone sax (beast, burden)
• Leonie Laws - vocal (beast, burden)
• Alice Offley - vocal (toxic, paper)
• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

(released on the rawtunes label - CD and digital download) songs by Rob apart from beast - lyrics by Rob, music by auralcandy

2015
the ballad of cheap haircut

• monsters, madness and death
• the ballad of cheap haircut
• arabella whiteley
• pariah
• six feet under (polite society)
• i'm invisible
• naked man in the playground
• jenyfer
• snow blind
• two baloons
• cold
• too sad to live
• the ballad of cheap harcut (reprise)

as auralcandy

• Mike Anstey - guitar, mix, mastering
• Chris Kerslake - bass guitar
• Callum Smith - drums
• Jon Kerslake - drums (six feet under)
• Patrick Edmonds - guitars
• Alan Bateman - clarinet and trumpet (naked man)
• Nathalie Feeley - vocals (arabella, snow blind)
• RB - vocal, guitar, keyboards, programming

(released on the rawtunes label - CD and digital download) songs by Rob