by Paul Simmonds | Sep 1, 2026 | Paul Simmonds, Phil Odgers
Friends and Fellow Travellers 🙂 Progress on the new TMTCH album project, The Wave, continues to be intense and satisfying. Out of a projected 26 songs, we have embarked on 20. Four of these are done, while the others range from just launched to approaching final...
by Paul Simmonds | Jun 8, 2026 | Paul Simmonds, Phil Odgers
The Men They Couldn’t Hang will be back in the studio at the end of this week, working on more tracks thanks to your support. We’ll share video on social media to give you a taster of how it’s all going – and it’s no secret to say we’re very happy with it all. THE...
by Paul Simmonds | May 27, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
The Ghosts of Cable Street, a song about the 1936 confrontation between the fascist blackshirts of the British Union Party and a coalition of the Jewish community, Trade Unionists, and decent, extraordinary people, was written in Hornsey Library, North London over...
by Paul Simmonds | May 16, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
The 90’s were not a good decade for me. I’d had a tremendous run through the late 70’s and 80’s; the great surge of youth, punk revolution, the furious euphoric creativity of life with TMTCH. It was like leaping from stone to stone and landing in perfect rhythm each...
by Paul Simmonds | May 9, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
1986 was a good year for TMTCH. Our first album had done well enough to get us signed to MCA Records with a fancy ceremony at their offices in Brewer Street, Soho. They put us down in Townhouse 3 studios in Battersea with producer Mick Glossop. Townhouse 3 had good...
