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 […]

Songwriter Evening returns to Ysceifiog Village Hall on Saturday 5th September, bringing another night of original live music to the village. This is not a typical open mic evening. Every performance is dedicated entirely to original songwriting, with musicians sharing songs they have written themselves in front of an audience that has come specifically to […]

One of the hardest things about recording your own songs at home is knowing when you can no longer hear them properly. I don’t mean technically. I mean emotionally, creatively and practically. By the time I have written a song, worked out the arrangement, recorded the instruments, sung the vocals, tried harmonies, changed parts, removed […]

There is a strange moment that comes after you finish a song. You have written it, recorded it, built the arrangement, listened to it far too many times, questioned every decision, sent the stems away, had it mixed, produced and mastered, checked the final version, uploaded it, added the artwork, written the description, chosen the […]