Weird Flex

McCartney IV is really a song about owning up to the ways you’ve hurt people, and recognising that love is more important than anything else. It’s a love song. I think it’s silly. And very serious. And hopefully romantic. People tell me they like it. Of course, the influence of a Beatle is worn on it’s sleeve (literally). 

I wrote it on a ukulele, an instrument I know almost nothing about. I do a lot of inclusive music workshops for disadvantaged and Disabled kids, and there’s always a ton of ukuleles in the music cupboard. Figured I’d better have a go.

I’m mostly known for playing the MiMu Gloves, so it’s a bit scary and exciting to do something without them, and on an instrument I don’t know how to play even. It’s new and strange to do something gentle and nothing like the big loud noise I make with the gloves.

People tell me it helps them. That it’s optimistic. I think so. I think it’s a song with a purpose.

McCartney IV

My new single, Two Metres Close. Written during my week on (virtual) songwriting retreat with Chris Difford. This song was inspired by a challenge Chris set; to write a song inspired by Hannah Grace Deller's amazing documentary photography about the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. Hannah's work documents the pandemic from the frontline of the NHS, and Hannah coined the expression "Two Metres Close" - it's a song about social distancing, and it's certainly heavy, but I think it has a ray of hope in it.

Dyskinetic