Year: 2019

  • Hello Glasgow!

    Just arrived in beautiful Glasgow for tomorrow night’s performance with Drake Music Scotland at Cryptic Nights. CN is a monthly event for new music at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts. We’re staying just down the road at CitizenM, which might be the most synthwave hotel ever. I’m watching Rocky bathed in neon. Maybe I’ll shred…

  • Making Music For Vinyl: Not As Easy As I Thought…

    With the news that Bandcamp will soon allow artists to offer vinyl, I was naturally intrigued by the possibility of working towards putting out a record next year. I’m very into physical media, vinyl being naturally the king of the physical space. It’s a beautiful thing, to put on a record, look at the sleeve…

  • I Could Synthwave Forever.

    Endless fun making endless loops for an imaginary movie made in 1988.

  • Perfume – Fusion: Hi-Tech Live Performance

    This I love. My peeps from the MTF crowd will too, I’m sure. J-Pop band Perfume performing live across 3 continents in a ridiculously tightly edited video. A triumph of art, choreography and technology. And Fusion is my favourite track off the album. YEAH.

  • Perfume – Future Pop

    A slice of J-Pop I was introduced to in Japan. Perfume’s live shows really appeal to the Music Tech Fest mentality – super hi tech and futuristic. I’ll post some live vids, but for now, here’s a song:

  • Hometown gig… finally!

    Hometown gig… finally! If you were there… I can’t thank you enough. AND AT SYMPHONY HALL, NO LESS! It was a foyer concert, a small deal, but it was BIRMINGHAM. WITH FRIENDS. AND FAMILY! I was a little more nervous than usual, of course. I make my living performing for strangers… Lots of new sounding…

  • Drake Music + Me in Japan: Part One

    日本は私に会いました。それは私をあらゆる点で得た。 いくつかのバックストーリー。私は10代から日本と日本の文化に魅了されています。それは私がレイキ、人気のある代替医療に興味を持つようになったときに始まりました。私は14歳からこの「癒し」の方法を宗教的に研究しました。1920年代に日本で考案された、これは私の最初の大きな霊的探求であり、当然日本を知りたいと思いました。 レイキの意図された癒しの力を議論することは結局私の興味を失った。レイキを探検したことで、私はチベット仏教へと導く精神的な旅にたどり着きましたが、私の日本への興味は残りました。インターネットの初期の頃、私はついにこの一見神話的な場所について学ぶことができました。私はとてもたくさんの愛を発見しました。マンガ。アニメ。寿司。原宿、カタカナ。私は際限なく興味をそそりました。そして少し恋に。 私の執着が始まってから20年後。私は自分が東京羽田空港に到着したことを知りましたが、信じられませんでした。 私はついにここにいた。 次回：どうやってそしてなぜ私はここに来た… Japan got me. It got me in every way. Some back story. I ‘ve been fascinated by Japan and Japanese culture since my teens. It started when I became interested in Reiki, the popular alternative medicine. I studied this “healing” method religiously from the age of 14. Devised in…

  • Deeper Still.

    Deeper Still.

    Contrary to what those closest to me think, I’m not my Own worst critic. In fact, that idea is redundant. Your own worst critic. It’s meaningless. What you’re supposed to be is completely honest with yourself, for better or worse. know your strengths. 0am your weaknesses.I know there’s things I’m really great at. I’ve got…

  • The Back Story. Why It’s Taken So Long. Part One.

    It’s fair to say, l’ve had a muddled career. 3 years ago, I thought it was over before it had really started. It sounds awfully dramatic, but I was fully expecting to have called time by now. I couldn’t move forward as a live performer. At least not in the model I was working in.…

  • Demolition.

    Demolition.

    All kind of weird icky feels. It doesn’t matter how I feel. He’s one of my biggest influences. His LPs are forever in the soundtrack to our lives. He was our eldest son’s first favourite singer. He’s also my go-to example of how fucked the music industry is around mental health + relationships. I remember…