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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…

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…

On The Front Lines

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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

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

My First Great Love

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This piece was written and published in April 2020, while the world was reeling from the beginning of the Covid pandemic and the first round of lockdowns. I was living in Melbourne again, after spending the preceding couple of years in Toronto and having just received my Canadian permanent residency card. I happened to be on tour in Australia in March 2020 when everything shut down and, so, stayed with my brother…

I'm late with my blog and I'm dreaming of Frank

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My dear subscribers,

My apologies for not publishing a piece yesterday (Sat evening in UK/Sun morning in AUS). It's grant writing season and that, combined with my new pilates obsession, meant that I ran out of time.

I'm gearing up to get ready to go to Australia for the launch of my record The Second High in a few weeks and things are hectic. I'm working pretty much non-stop preparing for the…

Pilates Girls

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There was a special deal at a reformer Pilates studio in Finsbury Park, a ten-minute cycle from where we live. A month of unlimited classes for a reasonable amount of money. Everything in London costs a shitload, though. Prices are inflated, doubled and even multiplied in some cases, compared to the rest of the country, so the Pilates deal seemed reasonable, despite it really not being that good. 
 
Anyway, Pilates…