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  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I don’t often post twice in one day, but I’ve been having technical issues with Soundcloud, which have just been resolved, so before it all goes pear-shaped again, thought I would post this, that […]

Audioblog – Please click here The isolated artist is a myth. Impossible. (If you have evidence to the contrary, do tell) It is only by talking to other artists that you develop. (Talking to non-artists is good too, but a […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The plate spinning was a useful metaphor. What I’m finding interesting is the smashed plate and how I end up seeing it…. And how others see it… “Oh you must be terribly disappointed? No Jerwood […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here No one told me that being a freelance self-employed artist would be a profession akin to circus plate-spinner! I have previously spoken of that in-limbo feeling… this is a little like that, but active rather […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here A song can elicit a much more immediate emotional response than a piece of visual art. I’ve said before that as an artist performing a live song, that immediate response, even if a polite […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I passed my sketchbook on to Dan for him to look at and respond to a little while back. What this means is there is no cohesive way for me to pin down the […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s been a very exciting year… And it’s not over yet! When I fill in the evaluation form for the Arts Council, does anyone know if there’s a section for Gobsmackery? I’ve done things […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here People have said to me “I don’t know how you get time to blog when you are so busy!” Other bloggers have said to me that when they are busy they have no time […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here   I’ve been listening to the songs a lot, obviously, as they are playing into the gallery. I’ve also been reflecting on live performance of the same songs. The differences in process fascinate me, and […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I suppose I take the nature of the visual artists I know for granted. They are supportive and encouraging… thank you all. However, the visual art that I have made doesn’t require the trust of […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Another studio session… doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? A bar has opened at the other end of Birdcage Walk. It is very busy, good for them! Although I am rather disturbed by the […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Exhausted. The body clock thing is completely confused. Circadian rhythms have become a cacophony to be likened to that outside Farmfoods on a Saturday afternoon. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle has its ups, but this […]

  ok folks… not so many words just a song… and credit where credit is due: Lyrics: Elena Thomas Music: Simon Coverdale Vocal: Elena Thomas Acoustic Guitar: Simon Coverdale Electric guitar: Dan Whitehouse Bass: Dave Sutherland Production: Dan Whitehouse   […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s hard to define why it’s so much fun really… You sit in a room with the same people for hours. You record stuff, sometimes repetitively. You drink tea and eat biscuits. Then you sit […]

  AUDIOBLOG- Please click here I wrote my first song at the end of 2010, with a lot of help from Dan Whitehouse. Songwriting is still a fresh and new thing for me. If any of you have read my […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Having said all I need is a mic and a macbook, Dan arrived on the first recording day with what seemed like a truck-load of stuff crammed tetris-style into the back of a Nissan […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s happening fast, now we’ve started, so it is hard to know where to start! Two days of recording then… I want to try to get down what I’ve learned as I go along. This […]

  AUDIOBLOG – please click here I belong to The Songwriters’ Circle at mac Birmingham. (I know I’ve mentioned this before) At the end of each term we choose a song we have written and we perform it. Some of […]

  AUDIO BLOG – Please click here Forgive me if you already know this story, but a few people recently have asked how I met Dan Whitehouse…. and the story has grown recently. So it’s a story of serendipity and […]

I have written a song about domestic violence. I worry about it though. I think it could be a good one. I think also that it could be an important inclusion in the final nine. So it had better be […]

  I wrote this a couple of days ago, and have been wondering and pondering whether to post it. It seems a bit prophetic, rather than my usual “reaction+thoughts” type posts. In the end, it is exactly for that reason […]

Right then. Yesterday I watched some of my Songwriting Circle buddies perform as part of the mac birmingham (their lower case trendy insistence, not mine) open day for the new term’s courses. I could have joined in, but chose not […]

One thing I used to do on a fairly regular basis on this blog was tell you what I was listening to. I notice I have been so busy showing off what I’ve been recording and writing that I haven’t […]

On a whim, I decided to listen to my “back catalogue” of about 10 recorded songs. Some have been recorded properly, with proper microphones, real instruments and a decent producer who knows what he’s doing with my weird and wonderful […]