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I'm Fired Up.

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Firstly, thank you to all of you for sticking around, even though I've missed a couple of weeks because of this epic tour. I appreciate your support more than you…

The Brisbane of my Existence

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I'm writing this in Sydney on Monday morning, the first full day off in what feels like ages. But maybe it's not. Time ceases to behave 'normally' on tour, that's…

Thank You for Restoring My Faith

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Hello dear blog subscribers. Firstly, thank you for sticking by me during these weeks in which I'm less routined and regular on the old blog output. Your support, and your…

To Put Things Into Perspective

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I'm writing this on Sunday morning. Today is the Anglesea Sound Doctor show which is sold out. Music On The Hill in Flinders was on Friday, also sold out. It's…

Trial and Error

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I’m writing this on the plane between Perth and Adelaide. I’m four shows in to the To Survive Tour. The first band show was in Perth last night at a…

On Your Marks, Get Set...

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I'm writing this in a hotel room in Alice Springs. It's 10:30am and already roasting hot outside (it'll reach 38 today). I'm hunkering down before going to soundcheck at the…

Love is Blind

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I watch a lot of reality TV. And it varies from a bit shit to very shit. It’s the watching version of puzzles for me. Not too much thinking involved…

Why Can't I Sleep In?

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I keep waking up very early. I like to go to bed at a ‘very sensible time’, it’s true (a time that toddlers and the over-85 like to go to…

Why Don't You Just Leave? Track #3 - I'll Never Abandon Myself Again

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I started writing this on Sunday just gone. I was tweaking it and trying to get it right most of the week. It's not a particularly long or complicated one…

Puzzling

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The countdown to leaving for Australia is on. One month. Tomorrow is the Shoreditch 10km and, thankfully, the weather forecast (which I’ve been watching obsessively) is now predicting NO RAIN…

Is this the end for us, London?

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I leave for Australia in just under five weeks. To tour and (hopefully) play a couple of festivals there in March before we return to this hemisphere. My partner and…

AI Don't Like It

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When I opened Microsoft Word today there was the now ubiquitous AI ‘friend’ asking me what I wanted to write. I could have just told it that I wanted to…

In The Valley

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I wrote this piece in early February 2022. And a gentle heads up, it's about death and grief but also about one of my very favourite people. If this isn't…

Track #4 - On the Level

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SORRY I MEAN TRACK NUMBER FOUR. 

xo

Track # 4 - On The Level

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Today we have arrived at track number four on The Second High, a song called On the Level. The song gives me a particular kind of satisfaction to sing. A…

The Super Reds and a Positive Attitude

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This week I’m in Yorkshire for my partner’s grandfather’s surprise 80th birthday party. We picked up the rest of his family, who had just flown in from Germany, from various…

Track # 5 Criminal

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Strap yourselves in, this one's a rambler!!


Criminal is the fifth song on the album and is the first part of the story I finish telling in To Survive. The…

When the Blinkers Come Off

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On Thursday I announced a load of shows. Five in the UK and seventeen in Australia. I can’t tell you how often I’ve had to do a task twenty-two times…

It's Not You, It's Me

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One of the great advantages of living in the UK is the proximity to some of the most beautiful places in the world. And living in London is particularly good…

Track 6 - Anger

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Hello dear readers.

I spent all day writing a blog post about the sixth track on my new record, Anger.  I was about to publish it but have decided, at…