For a while, I had something special. Something improbable. Something that made absolutely no sense and was therefore perfect. Nuuk, Greenland, was the city where more people listened to my music on Spotify than anywhere else in the world. Not London, Liverpool, Manchester or New York. Nuuk. I had no explanation for it. I had […]

There is a point in the life of almost every independent musician when you realise that writing songs is only part of the job. Quite a small part of the job, sometimes. You may have started because you liked writing. Perhaps you enjoyed the strange moment when a melody appeared from nowhere, or the satisfaction […]

There are some statistics you expect to change quite quickly. Football league tables move around, the weather changes by the hour and Spotify listening figures can rise and fall without much warning. Yet one thing seems remarkably consistent: Nuuk in Greenland is still the place in the world where more people are listening to my […]

If you want to listen to my music, the good news is that you are not short of options. My songs are available on streaming services around the world, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and SoundCloud, as well as the many other platforms that now carry independent music almost everywhere. On Spotify, I have […]

There is a question that sits behind a lot of amateur music-making, even when nobody asks it directly. Why are you doing this? It is not an unreasonable question. If you are not chasing fame, not expecting to make a living from it, not waiting for a record company to appear at the door with […]

Last week I discovered something rather unexpected in my Spotify statistics. Of all the places on Earth where people were listening to my music, Nuuk in Greenland was number one. At the time, I treated this as a charming statistical curiosity. Perhaps one particularly determined person had accidentally left one of my albums playing on […]

There is a particular kind of silence that matters to a songwriter. Not an awkward silence. Not the silence that follows a joke that has failed to locate its audience. Not the silence of people checking their phones while pretending not to. I mean the silence of a room actually listening. That is a rare […]

Here’s a short promotional article that keeps the tone personal, slightly self-deprecating, and focused on driving Spotify plays and follows. If you’ve ever listened to one of my songs and thought, “I wonder what else he’s done?”, I have now made that question considerably easier to answer. I’ve put together a Spotify playlist called Sean […]

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make Songwriter Evening on Saturday 5th September such a memorable night. Most of all, thank you to the musicians who shared such excellent original songs with us. The standard of songwriting and performance was superb, and it was a real pleasure to hear so much talent in […]

There are certain sentences you never really expect to say as an independent musician. “I’ve just signed a five-album deal” would be one. “My private jet is waiting” would be another. And then there’s this: Apparently, I’m big in Nuuk. According to Spotify, I currently have more listeners in Nuuk, Greenland, than in any other […]