My last album was released in 2019, so it’s nearly 4 years old, though some of the songs have been with me much longer than that - Ramble first appeared as a bonus track on the CD for the last…
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Feb 18 2023
Feb 18 2023
My last album was released in 2019, so it’s nearly 4 years old, though some of the songs have been with me much longer than that - Ramble first appeared as a bonus track on the CD for the last…
Read moreJan 31 2023
I was aiming for a 9:30am start. Nice and leisurely.
My motel neighbours didn’t get that memo. I’d hazard that the 4:30am wake up knock rattled the doors of many unappreciative rooms.
I probably the needed the extra time anyway…
Read moreJan 23 2023
I’ll be there by 1030 I said confidently. I’d typed the destination into maps and had a 10 minute buffer, for me, that’s luxury.
It was all planned out, I’d cue up a few Sodajerker on Songwriting podcasts for…
Read moreSep 14 2022
The question occurred to me during a discussion with some muso mates about the reasons why gigs seem so hard to promote sometimes, and why potential audiences seem so hard to reach.
We freely blame venues, conditions, competing priorities…
Read moreOct 8 2021
Talking to a mate the other day and the topic of mood boards came up. I’ve never been a particularly visual person, but I know people swear by them. It’s probably a reason why my output has been so varied…
Read moreSep 21 2021
Like many of you I’m sure, music was always around the house. For me it was usually the local radio station (an AM station specialising in not-modern songs) or, when I got a bit older, getting up to watch and…
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I was talking to a mate the other day about discovering new music, and it’s something that I’m almost fanatical about - every Friday the first thing I check is my Spotify Release Radar playlist, I just can't imagine missing…
Read moreAug 18 2021
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately* - plunged into another lockdown, friends losing their gigs and other opportunities and a lot of clamouring for some kind of normal, although I’m not even convinced at this stage that’s going…
Read moreAug 2 2021
I pulled my first guitar out of a rubbish pile in my shed the other day. I have not looked after it. At all. I nearly gave it away - in fact I'd agreed to and then reneged after talking…
Read moreMar 2 2021
I'm not going to pretend that there's any scientific algorithm at work here but I wanted to make sure that I had something arbitrary for these "...of the month posts" - so I'm using my last.fm data, send me a…
Read moreJan 25 2021
I meant to post these, I really did but... well, who really knew what they were doing in 2020...
Let me know if you've listened to these as well!
NOVEMBER 2020 - Cannot Be, Whatsoever - Novo Amor
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I'm about to embark on another chapter in my professional life - high school music teacher - and while it scares the life out of me for some reason that something I've wanted for so long is so close, reading…
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