Watch This Space
Hello everyone. This is just a quick note to let you know that I'm in the studio all weekend, cooking something up, so I can't write a blog this morning…
Off The Road
The Reading Pivot
At the end of last year I decided, in the middle of one of the most stressful periods of my working life that I’ve so far experienced, that it might…
It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day
Happy new year, dear readers. I hope you’ve all had a good rest and some delicious food over the break. Here is the first blog of the year. May this…
Love is Blind
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?
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
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
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?
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
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…
The Super Reds and a Positive Attitude
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
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…
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
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
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…
On The Front Lines
Last week I was invited, by a publicist who I’m talking to about working together, to an industry ‘mixer’ at a pub in central London. Although the idea of it…
Careful What You Wish For
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
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…
Antisocial Media
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…
Get Gentle
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…
The Point of it All
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…
There I Am
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…