John Dougherty, Songwriter

The 4th track on the CD was written and performed by Ruth Royall. She’s fab. I expect she’ll be famous quite soon.

I usually do a song or two as part of my sessions on school visits. I’m not doing much else with them at the moment but I’d like to. I’m talking with some friends about it. Maybe we’ll get a band together. I’ll let you know.

This is one of my best musical memories - me jamming with the fantastic Eddi Reader, one of my musical heroes.

•This is the ‘Songwriter’ page of the official website of John Dougherty, children’s author, poet and songwriter, solo performer and former frontman of Calvin and, before that, The Whole World. It contains links to tracks from the album Songs From the Water’s Edge Part One and the EPs Fashion is the Enemy of Beauty and John Dougherty and the Midwives of Melody.