I’ve always loved to sing. That love didn’t change when, as a 5 year old, my head teacher at the time heard me belting a hymn out in school assembly and kindly pointed out that I wasn’t in tune.

Mostly I am in tune these days. And sometimes I think I really nail a song.

But often it’s nice to imagine a great singer doing a version of a song that I’ve written. I expect most songwriters feel the same way.

Here’s one I didn’t sing because I wrote it from a female perspective. Alison Moffat Leith provided a wonderful vocal for Aliens In Slovenia, which was part of a series of mainly co-writes that turned into an album that I made with friend and fellow writer Les Oman.

Sometimes it’s great to be relieved of the responsibility.