Writing Lyrics for Kessy, So Swagging
2019 has been a good year. Having spent the first five months of the year working, swagging, and touring around Italy (what a wonderful country!) I also had a much
Back to my roots – guitar solo heaven
One of the things I most enjoy about my job is the range of tasks I’m faced with. As someone who can get easily bored with repetition, I find it
Thank F**k It’s Monday… I can do some sound design
A quick update on this week’s work. I’ve just done some sound design on a cool jingle for fitness and lifestyle coach, Mark Laws, who runs a motivational blog called
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Licensing Opportunity – Pull No Punches
This is a post about a possible licensing opportunity. Back in 2009 my old band Storey released a superb single called ‘Pull No Punches’ taken from our ‘Streets Will Fold’
Children’s TV Showreels and Happy New Year!
I’ve been composing music for children for much of this year. The latter half of 2016 was very busy for me as both a composer and lyricist but I thought
Give it a go on Skype…
A quick update because of a rather hectic few weeks where I’ve moved house, enjoyed a short working-weekend break to the Lake District and a number of gigs in far
A music video and a casual smoker
Before I talk about our recently filmed music video, I’m going to quickly talk about my friend Ben Caplan’s new album. Social Context Music and the arts in general get
The Cat Empire and a new website!
One very useful piece of feedback I’ve received since giving this site a facelift, is that I now have a very professional website full of great clips and music, but
As Robert Plant once said….
As Robert Plant once said… “It’s been a long time.” In his case it was ‘since he rock and rolled.’ In my case it’s ‘since I wrote a blog post
The marathons are over – the work is not…but I love London
Yesterday I ran the London marathon – the second of the ‘two marathons in two weeks’ I had planned to raise money and awareness for two of the fantastic charities
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