Spring Shades

 25th April 2025U

Updated 28/04/2025

An absolutely incredible night - I joined Maddison Kent from Somerset, Michael Wack from Germany and the inimitable Simon and Sina - ie Barn 54 at the award winning venue, Percy's Cafe Bar for not just a gig, but Barn54's live album recording. 

A stunning night - you had to be there!

Jonathan White wrote an article about the event here

Photo by TMR Photography

Photo by TMR Photography

Photo by TMR Photography

Photo by TMR Photography

Pre-show - Photo by TMR Photography

Pre-show jam with Barn54 and Michael Wack
Photo by TMR Photography

Photo by TMR Photography

The Cuckoo Set

 20th April 2025

We've been so busy working with just a few songs and their arrangements for recording that we arrived at Tom's Tap and Brew feeling pretty under-rehearsed.

The occasion was to support Tim Lee and his special night launching his beautiful new album - The Cuckoo Set.

Various "Yellas" joined him on stage for different songs including our Em who played - both live on the night and on the album itself, on the sad and stunningly beautiful title track.

The guitar pit

Fox Barn Day 2

 

Another utterly fantastic day for us at Fox Barn Studios under the direction of the mighty sound-brain of Daniel J. Logan. Recording in such a quick, creative way is a big part of what we're all about even if we rarely get a chance to do it quite like this, and - there's a bar!

Paradise.

One of the songs in particular actually transformed in today's session, from sounding more breezy straight-rock to gaining a much more punky approach than we were originally looking at, and we're loving it.  We're loving it all.

Foxes & Emus

Updated 27-03-25

Fox Barn Studios - Recording Day 1

A truly wonderful & significant day for us as we headed to Fox Barn Studios to work with producer Dan Logan for the 1st time in our band production seat since our debut EP All These Things Right Now.

On a fabulous spring day we recorded some tracks and met the local Emus! 

We recorded 3 tracks live -the four of us playing all the main or rhythm parts on our instruments. Without vocals and lead guitar licks (to avoid leaking onto through the drum mics as we were all in the same room, playing together), it proved tricky for us all to keep track of where we were in the songs without these cues, but we got three nice vibey tracks in the end. Overdubs of vocals, backing vox, lead guitar and any additional percussion are to be added next week.

Top Day!

 

Anthemic Morrow Moon

 Nice to get these comments from festival organisers. 

Project José

 My good friend & talented producer has an exciting new album project & I'm thrilled to be roped in. We have recently been co-writing a song - it's the most excited I've been about a co-written song with him since Travelling Light which I love so much.

After the Morrow Moon

 After the Morrow Moon just came out. It's available on Spotify & everywhere else, we'd really appreciate any playlist adds.

The song is a reminder (to myself, but it applies to all) not to put off the little, oh-so-easily taken for granted things that really make life worth living. I, indeed we - hope you like it, ❤️

It was never about a song

 Today I had the delight of being a part of the book launch for "it was never about the Kingfisher", a poety book by my good friend & multiple award-winning poet Helen Kay, published by Dithering Chaps.

Helen had asked me to collaborate by writing and recording music for, by her own account, darkest poem in the collection "O Morpheus". 

I was keen not to turn the poem into a song, but to keep the structure of this poem as it is, and instead use music to emotionally annotate, illustrate & illuminate this beautiful but disturbing poem. 

Single (& video) coming soon

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