Careful What You Wish For

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I played a show at London’s St Pancras Old Church last week. It was, in my eyes, a failure. Difficult to swallow after so much work had gone into it…

Track 9 - I've Always Known It

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This is the second of a ten part series about the songs on my record, The Second High, starting from the end and working my way back to the start…

Track 10 - While I Was Dying

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This is the start of a series in which I speak in depth about each song on my new record. 
 
Releasing an album is a funny thing. There’s so…

Antisocial Media

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I suspect that I'll write a lot more about this topic because it's a huge and complex one and I spend a lot of time thinking about it. But this…

Could you spread the word, please?

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Dear readers, if I could ask you a small favour... 

I'm attempting to reach more subscribers with this blog. If you have friends who you think might enjoy these bits…

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Where to Put This Enthusiasm

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I’m feeling energised to write today. I’m back in my flat in London, buoyed by a couple of positive conversations during the last week with people about music here and…

Get Gentle

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I knew this would happen. I have been going hard since the start of the year, touring in the UK and Europe with Emily Barker in January and February, getting…

A Brief Sabbatical While I'm on the Road

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Hello my dear subscribers. I'm writing this in a bedroom in the outskirts of Hamburg. I played my second last show with Irish songwriter and musician Susan O'Neill at the…

The Point of it All

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I’m on a plane to Brisbane to play a couple of last shows before I leave for the UK. My attention has slowly turned back to England and my career…

Always Forward, Always New

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I’m at Sydney airport. I’m tired and ready to go back to Melbourne. To go home. My partner and I have been out on the road playing shows to launch…

There I Am

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It’s the lushness and colour which struck me the hardest returning from London two weeks ago. Everything is alive and buzzing. Houses are different colours, streets are wide and lined with nature strips. The sky is blue, there are clouds discernible against the sky, instead of the one steady sheen of grey. There is time. And space. 
 
I had a small, unpronounced fear upon returning to Melbourne from London, where I’ve…

Some Thoughts on The Second High

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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…

Big Feelz

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Hello everyone. Just before we launch into this week's rant - a side note: Sometimes I post these blogs and, after reading them back (after having already proof read it a lot), I notice something weird and go in to amend it. So, the way to make sure you're reading the 'most properly' edited version is reading this on the website instead of in your email. They're never big changes, but sometimes…