On and Off The Road

Some Thoughts on The Second High

Hello everyone. On Friday I released my seventh solo record, The Second High. It's been an enormous amount of time and work getting it ready to go out into the world and I'm stoked, and relieved, that the lion's share of that work is now done. There's not much more I can do now except enjoy playing the shows and hope that people get something out of this work that I've spent…
On The Road

Thanks For Your Feedback

 
I’m writing this backstage in Utrecht, Netherlands. This is the tenth show, or thereabouts, with Emily Barker and it’s been lovely and, mostly, pretty easy travel-wise. The last day has been a bit more hectic though, due to having to travel from Winchester in England after a show there last night to a hotel near the Channel Tunnel, and then continuing on after four hours sleep this morning to Calais and…
On The Road

Tour Lyfe #1

I didn’t think I’d have time to write this week but I’ve found a window of time, on a grey and windy Liverpool Friday morning, before we have to check out and move on to the next place. I played in a church in Liverpool last night opening for Emily Barker, a songwriter from WA who spent twenty years living in the UK and who's only just relocated to Fremantle. She’s back…

Kittens and Underdogs

 
I’m by far at my best in the mornings and, because of the time difference between Melbourne and London, most of my meetings and the sessions with my consulting clients start very early (at 6am). Between 6am and around 1pm I get a huge amount of work done. My mind feels sharp and I have a particular kind of drive. And then I have something to eat, and/or a break, and…
On The Road

Castlemaine Golden Sounds Keynote Speech 2021

Next week I'm setting off on tour and announcing some exciting stuff so I'll be pretty flat out for the next three weeks. I'll endeavour to still post every week, but if there's a lull in proceedings, you'll know why :)

 This week is the transcript of a speech I was asked to make at the 2021 music conference Goldsounds in Castlemaine, regional Victoria. 
 
On my first ever trip to NSW…
Off The Road

Big City

 
The last week has brought with a series of coincidental bits of contact with friends in Canada and it’s thrown me back into the time I spent living there, pre-pandemic. Canada has been a big part of my life over the last ten years and, were it not for Covid, I would most likely still be living there as a permanent resident, which I became just before I left Australia to…
On and Off The Road

Too Old, Too Fat.

 
As I approach the release of a new album I’m faced again with the task of ‘creating content’ to promote it. This phase fills me with dread. Because of various delays this year, I’ve had to cram two photoshoots, a live video shoot and the filming of an official music video into the month of December and the onslaught of lenses has brought all of my neurosis and insecurities wriggling back…
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