Category: Blog
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Strictly 2013
Thought my fans (hi Mum!) might want to know why I’ve been so quiet of late. I have been busy, honest! There are a number of adverts featuring my music that are due to go on air in the UK very shortly, and The Mighty Handful are also getting closer to releasing our prog epic Still…
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One of the small reasons why I love my job
The great, bizarre thing about writing music is that you never really know what is going to connect and when, and oftentimes it can surprise you in beautiful and unexpected ways. When I first started working with Dan Slatter (of Howes and Slatter ‘fame’) nearly four years ago we wrote a couple of songs and…
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Ever wondered how to get a piano and a jukebox onto a Dutch barge?
Wonder no more…!! Incidentally if you have a complicated removal job I would heartily recommend these guys – I was petrified but they took the whole thing in their stride!
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Find what you love and let it kill you? Maybe not.
We seem to have evolved into a society of mourned and misplaced creativity. Concert pianist James Rhodes makes many a fine point in this rather good article (I implore you to read it in full if you want the below to make any semblence of sense). Now I’m going to commit the cardinal sin of…
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Yacht Rock!
Listen, I know this is old, but it’s new to me so it might be to you too. I found this great spoof soap on this enjoyable music blog and just lost hours of my life to it. Michael MacDonald, Toto, Hall & Oates and Kenny Loggins – what’s not to love!!