Hands of the Craftsman is a song, an album and a book.

The Song

The song was written for the revue Nice…if you can get it (a revue about work) in the early 1980s. It was included with other songs and verse on the album Hands of the Craftsman, and that album was the basis for the book Hands of the Craftsman, which includes much material that wasn’t included on the original album

The Album

The song and (now expanded) album are available from Bandcamp (my music sales channel of choice). Updating via other channels is a little more complicated, so for the moment only the original album is available through other music retail/streaming services. I’ll probably have to release the expanded version as a separate album, which I can hopefully do in the near future.

The Book

The print edition is at present only available through Amazon, though this is intended to change.

The eBook is  currently available through Kindle, Nook, ScribD and Smashwords and some others: there are links to it on Books2read.com here, and there may be others on the same page in due course. The print edition is also linked there, and there may also be other links there eventually.

Book description

In the early 80s I contributed much of the songs and music (and some other bits and pieces) to a revue called Nice, if you can get it directed by Maggie Ford, which was centred on the world of work. Some of that material appeared more recently on the album Hands of the Craftsman. That album formed the basis of this book: however, it includes much supplementary material. This includes not only historical and anecdotal material, but material that wasn’t included in the revue, and other material that wasn’t originally intended for the revue, but fits the topic. Some of this material has never been published previously in any form.

David Harley