Making the cut

Getting ready for a day at Motor Museum Studios is exciting and difficult! Exciting because it's so much fun to make music and make it with talented producers! Difficult because I like lots of my songs but there isn't time (budget) to record and publish them all, so which four songs fit together nicely, feel like the best sound for my second EP?

The long list looks like this:
Hairy Boy Blues - a bluesy number written back when I started this song writing thing in 2012

Don't Make Me Stay - a bluesy story about a love triangle that never was, also written in 2012 

Won't Be The Same - a gentle folky love song written in the summer of 2013

Rainproof - a favourite, bluesy ditty that I wrote in the winter of 2014 

Until Now - bluesy again, and written beginning of 2015 

Feels Like - a jazzy love song I wrote in the summer of 2015 

Yours Sincerely - written in late 2015, this is an open letter style bit of song writing about being sincere in a cynical world. Inspired by a diary entry of Marilyn Monroe, published in a book called Fragments(which I came across while reading my favourite blog). I felt her angst about feeling misunderstood is one of life's common themes, and lots of folks can probably relate to the sentiment... it got a great review from Liverpool Sound and Vision when I performed it live for the first time for Be Lovely Day. In fact I am likely going to make this the title song for the EP... 

Will whittle this list to four or five tracks for recording day - the idea is to record something very intimate, like I'm sat in your living room playing you my songs... Really looking forward to sharing it with you! Will have a little launch party in June, will let you know in due course where to be and when...

I'm busy booking some gigs in - will publish a list early next month - if you know of a local folk club/ festival you'd like to see me perform at let me know... I have plans to play my first Scotland and Ireland gigs this year, and there is whiff of a French spot in the summer too - ooh la la! 

In the meantime catch me on on Bay TV Liverpool (Freeview channel 8) March 3rd with my second Arts Alive: Acoustic session featuring some of my new songs! I'll share the link when its live... One to watch ;)  

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Recording times

Plans to record a new EP are under way! 

I have made a long list of the songs I will be recording this Spring with James at Motor Museum Studios and it's exciting to be making the selection... I will keep you posted regards progress and will share the EP making process with you step by step SheBeat style ^_^ 

One of the songs I will be recording is my latest written track Yours Sincerely, which I performed this weekend at Brink Liverpool for my Be Lovely Day showcase - Ian D Hall at Liverpool Sound and Vision liked it almost as much as I do judging by this review where he said 'a song of depth and fortune, is a track in which you will remember where you were when you hear it for the first time,' and it's the current fave to be my title track on my new EP...

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Being lovely

In 2012 I came up with a little idea called Be Lovely Day. Just a little effort to hopefully go a long way toward cheering up friends, family and colleagues in the bleak mid-winter. Inspired by Flower Thrower by Bansky, I wanted to remind all of us how important simple pleasures are in this one life we're all busy living. 

Four years later it is more than I could ever have hoped for and more! All around the world, lovely human beings will join forces on Saturday 23rd January and make the world a nicer place. Just because they can. Paying it forward I am giving away a free SheBeat track via Soundcloud - Believe is very much in the same vibe as Be Lovely and was written to cheer myself up, so I do hope you enjoy it too!

I'm also hosting and performing on the day at Brink Liverpool alongside a few musical friends from 2pm so do come along if you happen to be in the area - but being lovely can happen in your own time wherever you happen to be so let me know if you have any stories to share as a result of lovely efforts...

So whether you bake a cake for a relative, make an awesome mixtape for a friend or just pay some compliments to your neighbours: Lovely humans, I salute you!

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