It’s been a long time since I posted anything on here, since I added anything to my social media and since I released new music. I doubt the world has noticed how long it’s been but just in case someone has there’s been a few things happening in my life.

Firstly, I’ve not been well enough to record anything. The problems I had with my voice a few years ago resurfaced with a vengeance making it virtually impossible to sing anything because I was coughing every time I tried. Coughing also shreds your vocal chords so even if I did manage to sing I sounded awful. This led to all the fun being taken out of music, especially recording, so it has just been easier to not do any.

Second, it seems that Spotify are upset with me. Someone, somewhere decided to put a couple of my songs on a continuous loop on Spotify. Who it is and why they did this is beyond me but it’s upset the overlords at Spotify who have decided to remove these songs and claw back the laughable pittance they pay for streams. Through my distributor CD Baby they have warned me that any repetition will lead to my music being taken down.

It doesn’t matter to them that I am not doing this, it doesn’t matter that I don’t know who did it. They won’t trouble themselves to ban the account that is doing this, they’ll just put the blame on me and threaten me.

But the knock-on effect is that it is seriously demotivating. I almost reached the point of jacking everything in and never recording anything ever again. I’m battling my health and then having to battle a faceless monolith who is treating me like a criminal. all just to get a few tunes out into the world. I mean, what is the point?

I’ve got a couple more songs ‘in the can’ as it were and I’d like to finish the album I started if I can summon up the energy and willpower to do it. Who knows? Frankly, who cares?