I’m delighted to announce that I’m organising a Songwriter Evening at my local village hall. I hope it will be the first of many. If you live in or around North Wales please come along to Ysceifiog Village Hall on 7th February at 7.30pm and perform and listen to musicians playing original music. The aim […]

It’s been an age, but finally I’ve got new music to share with you. My new single, The Last Flare From The Shipwreck, will be out on Friday 30th January. I’m going to be working on the songs that will complete my album The Lessons so it might be some time before you hear anything […]

In these days of steaming and AI can a musician actually earn a decent living wage from their own music? It’s a question that has become increasingly important as musicians see their incomes squeezed and in many cases, such as with AI, actually stolen from them. Many of you will know of Mary Spender, a […]

With the reposting of my song The Time Of Your Life all the songs I have released so far are back on Spotify, all 26 of them. The silliness is over and the Spotify monolith has relented. It’s taken over 6 months to get them all back up and available, hopefully we’ll have no repetition […]

Continuing my rehabilitation on Spotify the latest song to be back on their site is Just To Be With You, which is a welcome return to sanity for all concerned. I hope you enjoy it…..

I posted a while ago that Spotify in it’s infinite wisdom had decided to arbitrarily take down a number of my songs. Out of the blue my distributor CD Baby emailed me to suggest I might want to put them back up on Spotify. Given I didn’t want them down in the first place that […]

It was a huge pleasure to see Dea Matrona in concert in Liverpool last night. I saw them last year in Leeds and what a difference a year makes. From the very first note it was clear they have come on in leaps and bounds. They were good last year, in fact very good. Last […]

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Hejira in Helmsley on Saturday. It was a stunningly good show by a hugely talented band. Hejira take their name from the 1976 album by Joni Mitchell. The album marked a seismic shift in Joni Mitchell’s music and is rightly regarded as a classic. Hejira (the band) play […]

Ask virtually any musician about how much they earn from their music and they’ll tell you the same thing – nothing. To earn minimum wage from Spotify streams you have to get something like 567,000 per month. Minimum wage !!!! That doesn’t take into account the cost of recording or even the guitar strings. Meanwhile, […]