No Track Mind - official release day 30th June 2024

About Us

In this incarnation No Track Mind are cheerful, fun, and infectious, ensuring that listeners can’t help but smile and dance, or at least tap their fingers … or raise a quizzical eyebrow.

Our Mission

Our Mission

For people to say “I’m happier after hearing it”

WE GUARANTEE [offer subject to T&C] to put a smile on your face and a skip and/or a trip in your step. There are some bendy/bandy-beat dance numbers with light and dark-hearted lyrics, this album is hopefully all about spreading butter and jam on your crumpets.

Artist Bios

Jan Hannaghan:
Role: Music Composer, Computer, Keyboard, Guitar, Bass
Jan is the main force behind the music, (though a lot of it is initiated on-the-spur-of-the-moment,) composing and producing tracks that we hope are infectious with fun. His has a happy knack for creating tunes that get people moving.

Geoff Clout:
Role: Lyricist, Vocalist, Drums, Artwork, Videos
Geoff brings fun and life to our music with his lively lyrics, engaging singing, and arrhythmic drumming. His playful and allegedly humorous approach to song writing adds an odd charm to our tracks that we expect some find pleasurable.

The story of No Track Minds

Yan and Geoff have been friends since the summer of 1985 when they both worked in Off Beat Studios in Kirkstall in Leeds, then went on to Beaumont Street in Huddersfield and Batley, to Hall Place, Lion in Leeds, and KGM in Wakefield … all now evaporated. Much satisfactory work was done and many good enduring friendships were made.

Then there was quite a hiatus with them both pursuing different things, making music with many different people, forming a worker’s cooperative to do web programming and built a database-driven multilingual older people entered community based photo and text system in the last millennium (it evaporated too), did film-making, writing and countless other things.

Yan and Geoff only produced half a dozen tunes together in those years, that was until the diabolical lockdown which put Yan and Geoff into the same bubble in Armley in Leeds. The outcome of that was a band called Optimismo and an album called “Obviously” [available on Bandcamp] which possibly reflects that difficult time’s desperation. It also turned out that Optimismo is a very common name for a band so it had to go!

When they furiously continued their music production work and ended up with dozens of tunes.

One day they noticed that the number had got out of hand and decided to file tunes in separate folders, alt, rock, wtf, electro, and POP.

They decided that everything they worked on would come from within the POP folder.  All tunes must certainly be lacking in cynicism.

So this is the new material, see it at originalartist.co.uk