Songwriter, Musician, Producer & Blogger
Songwriter, Musician, Producer & Blogger
People that know me, know that I’ve always weighed in on the heavier side of the scales. Even when I was in my younger, fitter football and cricket playing days, my “big boned” stocky build would always shine through thanks…
Today marks six months since my wife Mara passed away from cancer on November 22nd, 2020 and not a day goes by that I don’t think of her and how much joy she has brought to my life. Lately I’ve…
Just think, as songwriters, every time we write a song we start off with a blank page. It sits there and it waits patiently for us to pick up our pen and pour out our songwriting ideas from our hearts…
One of my guilty pleasures is my love of the music of ABBA. I always felt that if you wanted to study perfect pop music then study the song catalogue of Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. To say that I…
Musicians don’t retire, they just change direction and get more picky and choosy about what they want to be doing plus… They don’t give a fuck about what people think of them and their music anymore. Right now, we’re approaching…
For a little while now I’ve been thinking about starting up another band to showcase my increasing portfolio of songs that haven’t seen the light of day. I’ve been testing the waters, keeping one eye open and ear out on…
I’m a firm believer that when it comes to songwriting, the originality in your songs comes from the fact that you wrote it in the first place, not from any external source. To reinforce this belief, I found a video…
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure James Lane Allen When it comes to writing songs, nothing blocks the flow of songwriting ideas more than two small but very powerful words… FEAR and DOUBT. The fear comes…
I, like many, many songwriters have a problem with my songwriting process… It’s called “perfectionism” and along with an extremely over-zealous inner critic, this problem has plagued me my whole songwriting/music career. I have tried many times to snap out…
Since the mid nineties I have had a very keen interest in studying meditation. Around that time I was exposed to a number of philosophies of mainly the new age kind through the bands I was in and through the…