SOLO RECORDINGS
My debut album as a solo artist is out on May 30th 2025!
The album is called The Changing Of The Seasons, and I’ll be releasing singles from it leading up to the release, starting with a song called ‘Out Of Love With The City’ on April 18th
Listen to my solo singles and watch the videos here
Read about the history of my work as a singer-songwriter here
ABOUT MY SOLO WORK (July 2024)
I’ve been a ‘singer-songwriter’ of sorts since I was about 12 years old, when I first learned some basic guitar chords and started dreaming up songs, and in my later teens and early 20s I was usually the guitarist and lead singer in at least one band. (Sometimes I played a sideman role instead, on guitar or bass and bvs, but most of the time I also had my own band going at the same time)…
But I didn’t get around to putting out a solo recording of one of my own songs until 2016, when I released a single called ‘This Is Where You Need To Be’. It took me six more years to follow that up, and in 2022 I released four singles, which were instalments towards a debut album, which will be out in early 2025…
Why did it take me so long? That’s a question I could find several plausible answers to, but one is that I was always also working on other projects, usually several at once, as sideman, producer or something else. Spreading myself too thinly perhaps; or gaining invaluable experience…
I was also always in search of a sound, and never satisfied for long enough with any of my attempts to find it. Setting my sights too high certainly. I needed to relax and do what I could already do, at least some of the time…
Meanwhile however I wrote a lot of songs, and I was always recording, and I have quite a number of partially complete, in some cases almost finished albums that I intend to share with the world at some point. It’s an ongoing project to finish, and meanwhile to continue releasing new material…
[My version of ‘Shipbuilding’, the Clive Langer and Elvis Costello song that was originally recorded by Robert Wyatt, which you can find down the page, is an oddity here, because it’s a solo recording – everything on it is sung and played by me – but it’s part of a collaborative album, ‘Souvenir Of England: music from the stage production’ with Marianne DIssard; and to confuse things further it was released in between singles from my solo debut album.]