December 1st 2011 – Start
Following marketing advice from several sources, I have set up a Youtube channel called seapieparcel, where you can see videos and hear recordings of several of my songs as well as follow learning videos for some of the primary school songs.
Update December 1st 2013. There are over 80 videos uploaded there now, and a favourite morning task is to see where in the world my music has been heard! Here’s the link to the channel:  http://www.youtube.com/user/seapieparcel

January 17th 2013 – Slow Down Red Squirrels
This song was watched 181 times on this day. I don’t know why, but it’s a pleasing statistic!

August 2015 – Hodie Christus Natus Est
This song has been performed all round the world. I hear news all the time of different choirs learning it. It’s clearly a popular one, so perhaps there are more out there who’d like to add it to their repertoires. Here’s a new video advertisement which includes snippets of several of those performances and more details of the song:

July 26th 2016 – Review Of The Year
The Bridge Singers has been going a year and to mark the occasion, I made a video of one of our performances (Magical Glass) and combined it with photos of our 2015-16 season.
Update May 2025: I’ve made one of these videos every year in our summer break. There are nine so far (very soon to be 10)

August 2017 – Feedback
My youtube channel seapieparcel continues to gather “views” apace and also sometimes elicits feedback. Here are some recent comments:
“Wonderful!” on Alison’s K6 Telephone Box
“So so good! Magical!” on Quiet Window
“Un-hurried – gentle but tightly consistent and beautifully constructed with subtly contrasting moods and a Smokey English lustre – it is really quite beautiful – as a percussionist I can tell you the rhythm is interesting and well developed – nice passagework” on In The Teeth Of It
“Benjamin Britten would have enjoyed this – and H. Howells too – as did I – this is seriously modern writing – seriously well executed.” on The Felton Sycamores
“There is something indescribably lovely about these songs – and very interesting Harmony – Listen Carefully – glorious suspensions – beautifully crafted melody and the percussion part is insanely appropriate  – I love it !!” on Precarious Cat
“Beautiful and We Love It. Henry Hotspur Percy is my direct 16th Great Grandfather!” on Henry Hotspur Percy 
“Moving, intense, highly effective setting of a powerful poem. And a fascinating glimpse of a terrible event.” on The Felton Sycamores Song Story
“This is absolutely beautiful. It combines a devastating event in our history, the work of a poet and composer and the majesty of nature. The composition is an astounding work and centres around the forced march of Scottish Soldiers captured by Cromwell’s army after their defeat at the Battle of Dunbar. I found it thoroughly thought provoking.” on The Felton Sycamores Song Story
“wonderful “rocking boat” motif! Land-lubbers beware 🙂 ” on Push The Boats Out
“‘Top Banana’ for that one Cheryl!” on Banana Fanfare II
“Excellent  audio visual!” on Chantry Chapel Carol

October 2018 – The Bridge Singers
I set up a new Youtube Channel, this time for The Bridge Singers. I do post a lot of recordings of my choir on my own seapieparcel channel, especially if I composed or arranged them, but the videos on this new one is of things that I have merely assembled. You can have a browse here: The Bridge Singers – YouTube
Update July 2025 – there are now 40 videos on there, and they’ve received over 7000 views!

December 2018 – Dad
My Dad died this year. He was the very loveliest of people and I am very lucky that he was my Dad. I’m also very grateful to myself that over the last few years I’ve recorded him telling me stories. One such occasion was in 2016 when The Flying Scotsman came to his home town of Retford and we went there on another train from Worksop and joined the throng of steam fans on the platform. I used the stories he told me that day on this YouTube video which also tells the story of his life in in pictures.

August 2019 – Rock Festival Choir Fringe Adverts
Rock Festival Choir went to the Edinburgh Fringe again in 2019 and I was asked to create some teensy promotional videos by our tour manager Peter Biggars and Musical Director Peter Brown. Here they all are packaged up in one delightful composite video! Rock Festival Choir Edinburgh Fringe Adverts!
This is actually on the Rock Festival Choir’s YouTube Channel which I was asked to set up earlier in the year.

Autumn 2019
I’ve used this channel before to make marketing videos, particularly my most popular ever song Hodie Christus Natus Est, but in 2019, I decided to gather songs together with thematic similarities in groups of twelve and make “Twelve Of The Best” videos and blogs. You can read more about them here, and find links to each individual video and blog.

January 31st 2020
This photo appeared on Twitter today – It’s a school actually singing along to my Three Billy Goats Gruff Is A Noisy Story YouTube video. I do get messages like this from other schools from time to time, but this is the first visual evidence! It’s a popular video – already over 500 views in less than six months
Update May 2025: As of today (21st May) It’s way the most-viewed with 9,813 spread fairly evenly over its six years or so. I think this is for two reasons – it’s a top quality song, of course, which helps the singers learn the difference between loud and quiet, and also this fairy story is a big favourite on the curriculum in Early Years settings – they do bridge-building activities and go on farm visits etc and there are some top books using this story as well – for once I seem to have written something that hits the popularity mark at least with one very niche market!

February 18th 2020 – Milestone: 48,000
I love these little milestones on my Youtube channel. Do have a listen – lots there for your choir or class to sing, or maybe you’re looking for a marimba concerto!!

August 2020 – Lockdown Walks and Videos
I was inspired by the many photos I took exploring new walking routes during the first 2020 lockdown, to create a several happy videos of children’s songs I’d previously written while working in various schools, to help others sing along with them.
Making videos has been one of my main occupations during the lockdowns – both for myself and for The Bridge Singers to help keep them busy and connected too.

After my first walk to the sea from here (3 and a half hours!) in May 2020 I used a very cheery song I composed in Brisbane for Mrs. Pledger’s Year 1 class – very popular it was then and at many places since. It’s all about self-esteem and feeling good about the way you are! The Song The Singing Tortoise Sang.

On another occasion I went half way to the sea then came back via a different path. It was a very foggy morning, and all the spiders’ webs that must always be there were very apparent with all the droplets be-jewelling them. I again got carried away with the camera and used the pictures to illustrate another song from my Brisbane days, this one, an arrangement I made for Mr. Beiers’ Year 5 class for their “Convicts” topic.  John Hudson’s Bound For Botany Bay.

You will have noticed in the tortoise video that there is a water tower in a distant field on the route to Warkworth. I resolved one day to get as close to it as possible. You can almost touch it, it turns out! This time I’ve combined my pictures with a song I composed for a Year 4 class in Alnwick. The song is a sacred processional, and I feel that I was indeed on a bit of a mission to find the water tower and pay homage to it in some way! Hymn Of The Ancient Greeks

Stop! Touch The History On The Breeze was composed for a trio of schools in different parts of Northumberland: in the countryside; next to a castle; and by the sea. We composed the words of the verses together and the tune seems to be part of my collection of songs for children that use irregular time signatures because children don’t have trouble with such things if they’re introduced with enthusiasm and confidence…I have found, anyway! Stop! Touch The History On The Breeze

St. John Vianney’s School Song was composed for…well I’m sure you can guess. This was the very, very wonderful Catholic Primary School I worked in, in Brisbane. Actually I do believe that this one stays in 4/4 throughout. It has other difficulties, but children are exceptional if you give them self-belief and again the whole school really went for this one and loved it greatly. I enjoyed making this video because not only did it remind me of that awesome school and the colleagues I had there and the amazing work we did, but I got to use lots of my excellent brother’s photos – he’s been to John Vianney’s house in Ars and other places linked to the saintly fellow. St. John Vianney’s School Song

And finally from the selection, I’ll go for Boo To My Ration Book which I composed for  some Year 5 classes in Wakefield. They were studying WW2. I wrote this song and taught it to them and also taught them Hey Little Hen which is an actual WW2 song about rationing. I composed Boo to fit with Hey as a partner song. The classes sang them together. It’s since been sung by a few different choirs – adult choirs seem to like it too, which is nice. The photos are of Grandad Webster (who was killed in WW2) and Mum’s ration books! Boo To My Ration Book

July 18th 2022 – Lullaby Of Silences
On this day this song was listened to over 300 times, and in the following couple of weeks the total views went up to nearly 900. This is a lot – nothing to do with any promotion I’ve been doing – startling and pleasing at the same time!

September 19th 2024
Two thrilling composery things have happened this week:
1. I received lots of royalties from APRA for performances or broadcasts overseas. It’s mostly for Alleluia Into The Light in the USA, but also for a couple of other pieces in Belgium.
2. My seapieparcel YouTube channel tipped over 100,000 views.