I’ve put together a lyric video for my new song “A Promise”

I’m not sure how I feel about these types of videos. Laying all your thoughts out so obviously. But once I’d finished it, I realised that these lyrics mean a lot to me and having them on screen with the music, makes them more powerful.

I’m trying to assemble a few tracks for a new EP that I can sell at future gigs. I plan on keeping the tracks pretty simple, as just voice and guitar, as that will be how I will be presenting them in a live situation. Stay tuned for more information and updates on that.

Sometimes when I write a new song, I worry it’s a bit too obvious. Or that the chords are a bit too simple for me. That was certainly the case when I came up with this song “Run for our Lives”

As a guitarist, I like to have interesting (some would say over complicated) guitar parts. However, the chords here are pretty simple, but I’m trying to let the words and the melody do the work. That is definitely a new approach for me.

So I thought I’d share a performance of the song. At a recent gig, someone said it is a very catchy song, so I suppose it has done its job!

“Broken People”

The passage of time. Don’t regret. Never give up.

Whilst The Nightwires are still gigging, I’m also trying to step up my number of solo gigs.

It’s a completely different feeling performing solo but I have to say, it’s giving this “jaded” musician, a bit of his mojo back! It’s been great playing some of my new songs and seeing which ones work best. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the comments I’ve been getting, as my solo songs do tend to be on the sadder side of the positivity spectrum!

Thanks to all the people who have seen me perform recently in Loughborough, Wirksworth and at The Derby Folk Festival. Look out for updates on further solo shows soon.

Another new song!!

“All The Things” is one of my favourites to sing, out of this batch of new songs. It’s actually pretty simple in its structure, as it’s the same four chords all the way through. Despite the fact that I bemoan that very thing in most modern pop songs, sometimes simplicity wins. It’s all about the melodies and words. I do get slightly uncomfortable in laying out feelings and emotions so rawly, but hey ho. That’s what music is about for me.

Here is a live performance of another one of my new songs. “Where Do We Belong” was inspired by Physics. I did A Level Physics. I got a grade “N”

For Near miss…

There are loads of these new songs. Whilst they keep coming, I’ll keep recording them.

Here is a live acoustic version of my new song “Try To Forget”

Here is the official audio for my new track “Try to Forget”

This is the first finished recording, from the songs that I have been writing over the last few months. This one in particular, became a bit of a labour of love. It’s taken a lot of nerve for me to put my voice and lyrics so upfront, but sometimes you just have to go for it!

I will hopefully be doing a few solo shows over the coming months, in an attempt to try out some of these songs and see how they go. I’ve never been so prolific!

Hello

It’s been a bit quiet on the website front. That doesn’t mean I’ve not been busy with my music, but real life pressures have meant that I’ve not been able to update “the socials” as much as is necessary in this day and age. However, as artists, we have to remember that we can still be making art, without the need to tell everyone that we’re doing it. We have to make the art for ourselves primarily.

As I have some new projects on the horizon (more on that soon) I thought it was time for some new promo photos. Any excuse to look moody!! These sorts of things make me feel slightly uncomfortable, but I think Mrs Clements has done a decent job of making me look ok.

I’m holding my 2012 Gibson J45 Standard in these shots.

Here is a new instrumental track I’ve been working on. “Robots Can’t Dance” partially came about after I’d been listening to a lot of songs by Buckethead! If you don’t know who he is, you should really check him out.

As usual, all the instruments are played by me and I also did all of the drum programming, using EZDrummer by Toontrack.