I was sitting with my thoughts the other night and I found myself turning over a question I hadn’t really examined in a long time. I was thinking about creativity. Specifically, I was thinking about the different ways we humans…
This coming Sunday June 21st, 2026 at the Chiton Restaurant will be my last cover gig EVER. This is because after a lot of thought, I’ve decided to finally retire from playing covers as a professional function. I’m walking away…
Rainer Maria Rilke once issued a challenge. He wrote: “There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the…
You know, we’ve never had better tools for making music. You can write, record, produce and release a song this afternoon, from your bedroom, for nothing. The technology is genuinely remarkable. So why are so many musicians anxious, burnt out,…
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion going around right now, and it’s not the kind that a good night’s sleep will fix. It’s the exhaustion of keeping up. Of waking up each morning not quite knowing what fresh chaos the…
There’s something quietly fascinating happening online right now, and I think it says more about where we’re headed than most people realise. According to a recent article on Reprtoir, millions of people have been flooding social media with the hashtag…
There’s a lot of noise right now around AI and music. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either the end of creativity as we know it or just another tool in the long line of tools musicians have always…
I didn’t start writing songs to become a better person. I started because I loved music. Because I was drawn to melody. Because there were things inside me that felt too big, too confusing, or too private to say out…
Today is the last day of January which means that tomorrow kicks of one of my favourite times of the year. It’s FAWM time. Now I can hear you thinking… “what the hell is FAWM?” Well, FAWM stands for February…
Most people talk about songwriting as if it’s something that happens to you. Inspiration strikes. A song arrives. You catch it before it disappears. That story sounds nice, but it doesn’t describe the everyday reality of writing songs. Most songs…