From time to time Clive has sat down with pen and paper, typewriter and correction fluid, and – finally – a computer keyboard to write stuff other than songs. Sometimes he even writes serious things, usually on musical matters. He's written reviews, profiles of musicians, sleevenotes for albums, articles for online magazines and he's designed and written PR brochures.

He's written for the late, lamented, legendary Melody Maker, Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music, Songwriter magazine and Living Tradition. Sometimes, curiously, he is known as Adam Conway, and sometimes, even more curiously, Laurie van Truck.

A short while ago somebody said to Clive (it might well have been his wife), "Why do you only write about music? Why don't you write about other things too? You could do it." He thought about it for eight seconds and agreed that, yes, he could do it. So he's doing it.

Recent work includes articles on holistic therapies and feng shui. He has also been tackling subject matter ranging, dizzyingly, from atheism to internet dating to ukuleles, and like all writers he thinks he's got a novel in him. This will be an ongoing project and possibly an obsession.

With an old school friend he's been working – on and off – on a series of rather bizarre children's stories they first dreamed up at school, in the 1960s! They've been digitally transcribing them before the old exercise books, "borrowed" from school, finally rot away. Now that really is what you call "an ongoing project".

Laurie van Truck