On Leaving London - Leisure
All I want from a holiday. All I want from life.
Patterns in Repeat
Around and about songwriting and what causes it.
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Love (from Disney's Robin Hood) cover
my thin legged archer
Edleweiss (The Sound of Music) - cover
Holiday soundtracks
On Leaving London - Rural Suburbia
Welcome to Jane Austen Country
On Leaving London
New series announcement + Ron Sexsmith cover
Laura Sings...
I may never go back
Across The Universe (John Lennon cover)
Perhaps like most people my age, I was delivered to this song by Fiona Apple and her extraordinary 1998 rendition recorded for the film Pleasantville and accompanied by possibly my favourite music video of all time:
Twilight (Elliott Smith cover)
If you’re not already aware of this Oscar-worthy clip from 90’s morning television, let it serve as a reminder that, in an age in which musicians are held at the neck by the clammy hand of social media promotion, indiscriminately folded into the sinister conglomerate of “content creation”, we may be missing out on some of the most supremely gifted artists of this generation.
Conversation with Rob Moose
considering the destruction of ancient walls, psychedelics of classical music and zero anecdotes about me
Interview with Dom Monks
Engineer (of me) turned producer (of me..and Big Thief and others). Freudian studio drama's and first impression of me (none).