Songwriter Evening is now on YouTube—come and hear what we’ve been making a noise about! We’re launching our brand new channel with six performances from our evening on 31st October: three original songs from Hazel Siân and three from Carlos Grassot. It’s a chance to enjoy their performances again or discover the music if you […]

There has been another change at the top of my Spotify statistics and, this time, I am not entirely sure how I feel about it. For a while, Guwahati in India had become the place in the world where my music was listened to most. Before that there was Nuuk in Greenland, with Australia regularly […]

One of the odd things about songwriting is that the ideas rarely arrive in an orderly queue. They do not politely wait until the previous song is finished, recorded, mixed, mastered and released. They tend to turn up whenever they feel like it: halfway through another song, while driving, just before falling asleep, while making […]

There has been a change at the top. For months, Nuuk in Greenland held the crown as the place in the world where my music was listened to most on Spotify. It was a remarkable run and, for a while, I genuinely began to wonder whether I had accidentally become Greenland’s unofficial house musician. But […]

There’s something special about hearing a song performed by the person who wrote it. You get the words, the melody and the personality behind it, all in the same room. At Songwriter Evening, that’s what we come together to celebrate: original music and the talented people who create it. Our next gathering is Saturday 31st […]

Asking someone to listen to your music always feels like asking for a favour. There’s an awful lot of music out there, most of it made by people with bigger budgets, better hair and someone else taking care of the promotion. So I’ve tried to make this particular invitation as straightforward as possible: five songs, […]

One of the strange things about making music independently is that the moments which keep you going are often very small. Not the dramatic moments, not huge streaming numbers, sold-out rooms or glowing reviews. Most amateur and independent musicians are not living in that world anyway. What tends to matter more are the quieter things: […]

There are moments in life when faith is rewarded, and this is one of them. Nuuk is back. After being overtaken first by Melbourne and then Sydney, the good people of Greenland have returned to the top of my Spotify listener statistics. Nuuk is once again the place on earth where more people are listening […]

There is something slightly contradictory about home recording because it gives you enormous freedom while also being a very solitary way to make music. The home studio means I can work when I want, record what I want, take as long as I want and make as many mistakes as I need to without anyone […]

I appear to be becoming unexpectedly big in Australia. I use the word “big” with the caution it deserves, because there are almost certainly people in individual streets in Sydney who are considerably more famous than me. Even so, according to my latest Spotify figures, Sydney is now the city in the world where more […]