The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I love this time of year here. As my friend Dave said yesterday morning as we took his little dog for a walk around his new neighbourhood in Reservoir in…
Off The Road
The Strange Zone
My partner left for Germany on Friday night and I leave in just over two weeks. I’m in The Strange Zone now. It’s a special place between worlds in which…
And Another Thing...
Now that the AFL season is in full swing, I have dutifully applied my blanket ‘things used to be better’ edict to the world of football as well. I was…
The Mental Coup
I’ve often said, and written in this blog, that one of the things I enjoy so much about my life as an artist is the freedom and autonomy it affords…
The Big and the Small
I was playing at Port Fairy Folk Festival all last weekend and didn’t have a chance to write a blog. For some reason, March has become an absolute behemoth of…
Why Do We Save it For Funerals?
My dad was very touched by the piece I wrote about him last week, which made me happy. I was glad to have been able to let him know how…
Happy Birthday Jack
My dad turns 82 today. In April he was kicking the footy with my partner, my 10-year-old nephew, my brother, my sister's partner and me and he was the only…
Write, Record, Repeat
I’ve been in the studio again, this time with engineer/producer Jono Steer. We’re recording some new songs that’ll be released this year. I’m not trying to be Secret Squirrel…
There's Nothing Wrong With Me
I'd planned to go for a run this morning. Sunday is usually the day I run the longest. And so last night I decided on the route, got my clothes…
Track #3 – When You Met Me
I wanted to finish the series I started about all the songs on The Second High. We’re now up to track three, When You Met Me, a kind of RnB…
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…
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…