Me and my lovely friend Gerard hanging out and writing, in the process of putting together a few songs and covers. As the baby is still so small she still comes everywhere with me, and she does enjoy listening, and occasionally joining in! You can hear her warble along at around 1m in. Hope you enjoy the song, it's the first of a few we have written together, based around some very old lyrics, very straightforward acoustic vibe. xxx

Day Upon Day - quick demo, with special guest!

WIAWW

I wrote this song with George and Diij on 18 April 2001 - ie a very long time ago now! I was looking through some old diaries and I found the note that said we'd written it. It's a song that has a sunny, chilled out, summertime vibe to it so I thought I'd share it today. Enjoy! xx

Take My Heart - with George Booth and Diij

Autumnal ballad, collaboration with George Booth

NOW IT'S GONE

My own rendition of a Christmas classic, in what is now becoming a bit of a Christmas tradition. Big big love to George for his fabulous skillz as ever xx

SANTAH, BEBEH!

My speed poetry effort from Find The Right Words in April 2018, where a volunteer is selected to write a poem in an hour based on three themes from the audience. Find The Right Words has been nominated for a Saboteur Award, and there is still time to vote at bit.ly/sabshortlist for this brilliant night. Many thanks to Jess Green for Find The Right Words and Aaron Bright for his lovely production here.

Hotline Poeting, or You Can Call Me On My Shellphone

So she kept posting lines from this song on soshal meeja and I was inspired to find and learn this song on my uke, so my lovely friend Jess is pretty much responsible for this. Thus I dedicate it to her. Of course I realised when I looked it up that it was 'that cup song' from Pitch Perfect etc but it's a fun one to play too :)

Thanks also to lovely Aaron from Aaron Does Audio for being my fabulous engineer (and for not laughing at my shoddy playing)...

When I'm Gone

A one-minute edit of a new track, the first on what will hopefully be a little EP which at this rate will happen in 2013... I've recently attracted some new followers so this goes out to them particularly - thank you for listening :)

LITTLE TOWN

Sometime in '99 I think I popped into Progress Studios in Derby and hung out with a producer called Mick Cole (not that one - at least, I'm pretty sure it wasn't). We chucked something together and this is the result - we never finished it or finessed it so this is very much a work in progress (literally, haha). Long time ago now - on a nostalgia tip today...

It's Up To You (Say Yes Or No)

I've uploaded this to give the former members of Makif a good laugh - remember this chaps? Sometime in 2000 as I remember. I sound awful in the interview and they cut out the interesting stuff I said about our inspirations in favour of everyone laughing at my name instead... It starts with us doing a shoddy acoustic version of I'll Be There 4 U and then it's us rambling. It's low in volume and a bit buzzy cos it's off an ACTUAL CASSETTE TAPE. Still, enjoy.

Makif the band on BBC Radio Notts - song and interview

Singer, spoken word performer, top-line writer & sometime ukulele player. Mostly session stuff.

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