1. Cowgirl
2. The Worm
3. Guess Who’s Crying Now
4. Under The Tree
5. Stuck
6. Have Your Cake And Eat It
First album in nine years, to be released 24 July 2026.
Situation
7. Tiny Plane
8. Final Call
9. Mental Noise
10. Fireworks At Midnight
11. As We Say Goodbye
Free download but please consider donating for this music (details below).
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As always, I’m making this album available for free as well as it being on all streaming platforms. I never want money to be a barrier to people enjoying and owning the music.
But as I’m sure you’ll appreciate, making records is expensive. Session players need to be fairly paid. Equipment needs to be bought and maintained. Food needs to be put on the table.
If you’re able to, please consider donating for this music through the link below. It doesn’t matter how much; everything helps to keep the lights on. Enough for a coffee would be ample. My dream is that donations for this album might help it to ‘break even’ so that I’m better placed to make another. So, if you might consider dropping a couple of coins in the jar, I cannot tell you how much I would appreciate that.
The Making Of
I’m pleased to announce that my new album Situation will be released on 24 July 2026.
This is my first full-length record in nearly a decade. You see, life has been busy. Day jobs have done that thing where time disappears. My health has been iffy. My brain doesn’t like me sometimes. But after a bumpy few years, this is an album felt I had to make.
The resulting music is even more diverse than before. It’s more extreme. Unpredictable. Intense. Layered. Destructive. A few songs are playful. More than a few come from difficult places. There’s an eight-minute folk-rock epic about a Scottish aircraft. There’s a tuba. I attempted to play metal. (Yeah, you can guess how that went.)
But whilst keeping the old-school aesthetic to which I always stay true – records to me just sounded better back then – this album was also created with the most modern of collaborative methods. Through the miracle of everybody having their own studios and giant files being sharable at the click of a mouse, I collaborated with over 30 different players from all over the world to bring the music to life – only a couple of whom I was sat in the room with. (Full credits for each track are below.) There are musicians from Malaysia, Argentina, Colombia, Slovenia, Ukraine…and everywhere in between.
Oh yeah, and Billy Sheehan is on there too. What a legend.
Situation is a global creation. And I hope you enjoy it.
All instruments on this song (and the whole Situation album) were performed by real musicians; all of whom have tirelessly pursued their craft and developed genuinely creative ears and unique styles. There is no use of MIDI programming, autotune, audio quantisation or copy-paste samples anywhere – and, in particular, it is a record proudly untouched by AI. Thank you for seeking out genuine, independent artistry created by human beings; and for enjoying something that exists purely for the love of creation and self-expression shared by those who made it.
All songs written, recorded, produced and mixed by Joe Perkins.
Primary engineer: Joe Perkins (all session players engineered their own instruments)
Mastered by Björn Engelmann at The Cutting Room, Stockholm.
Design & Photography by Gwendalyn Webb.
Ⓟ and © Joe Perkins 2026. All rights reserved.
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Cowgirl & I, Stockholm
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A few mastering tweaks
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Not so tiny plane
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Don’t make them like they used to
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Mastering with Björn Engelmann
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Unfocussed
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Keeping it old school
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D84459 ARN>LGW
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All work and no play
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More is more
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Where the chaos happens
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The legend himself, Björn Engelmann
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Tower of British crunch
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Studio goals
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Björn making everything sound good
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She’s in a mood again
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Tasty vintage compression
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Under the tree
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Tiny Plane
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Vintage is better
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BRR
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It’s piano day
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A sign on the streets of Stockholm
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All normal here
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Never enough power!
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Expensive Nescafé
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Needs more delay
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Tube amps just feel right
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A short-lived but fun experiment
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Bigger screen needed
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Somewhere in Sweden
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Credits & Performers
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Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Synthesiser, Electronic Organ, Jaw Harp & Horn
John Simm (UK): Drums & Percussion
James “Cap’n” Cook (USA): Bass -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Synthesiser, Tambourine, Cowbell, ACME Siren & Theremin
Simone Pannozzo (Italy): Drums
Laura Corazzina (Argentina): Bass Guitar
Chris Aschman (USA): Steel Pan
Kelly O’Donohue (Germany): Trumpet
Edgar Palacio “Gared” (Colombia): Latin Percussion
Seffie Perkins (UK): Honorary Canine Howl -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar & Synthesiser
Bodo Schopf (Italy): Drums
Billy Sheehan (USA): Bass Guitar -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Mandolin, Jaw Harp, Xylophone, Tambourine, Finger Clicks & Harmonica
Rob Gould (USA): Drums
Federico Palmolella (Argentina): Bass Guitar
Seth Murphy (USA): Pedal Steel
Michelle Canning (USA): Banjo
Gwendalyn Webb (UK): Clarinet & Finger Clicks -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Piano & Synthesiser
Chris Brush (USA): Drums
Claudio Signorile (Italy): Bass Guitar
Jason Royall (USA): Hammond B3
Sebastián Parada (Argentina): Cello
Gal Guttman (Israel): French Horn -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Synthesiser & Hand Claps
Klemen Markelj (Slovenia): Drums
Marco Toba (Argentina): Bass Guitar -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Synthesiser, Mandolin, Xylophone, Tambourine & Hand Claps
Gavin Payn (UK): Drums
Josh Clark (UK): Bass Guitar
Gwendalyn Webb (UK): Hand Claps -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Synthesiser & Screaming
Chris Barber (UK): Drums
Alberto Rigoni (Italy): Fretless Bass Guitar -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Farfisa Pianorgan, Accordion, Kazoo, Tambourine, Percussion & Backing Vocals
John O’Reilly Jr. (USA): Drums
Melisa Dopazo (Argentina): Bass Guitar
Miguel Bestard (Spain): Tuba & Euphonium
Gwendalyn Webb (UK): Backing Vocals, Kazoo, Bell & Hacking Up A Lung -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Tambourine & Backing Vocals
Adrià Sanz (Spain): Drums
Jozsef Horvath Barcza (Hungary): Acoustic Upright Bass
Gwendalyn Webb (UK): Choir Vocals
“Sergaccordio” (Ukraine): Accordion
Faliq Auri (Malaysia): Uilleann Pipes -
Joe Perkins (UK): Electric Guitar & Synthesiser
Toni Mateos (Spain): Drums
Robbie Malone (Ireland): Bass Guitar