A couple of years back I'd taken photos at a Newton Faulkner show and got the gig through emailing the opening act. That act was called James Gillespie. In the following years James has absolutely smashed it, accumulating himself over half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and earned himself (rightly so) a very loyal... Continue Reading →

We woke from our slumber at 10am where our host had prepared breakfast for us. It was a pretty solid spread as touring musicians go, with choices of cereals, fresh breads, juices and teas and coffees. Food always tastes best when it's free, so we filled our boots and had a pretty hearty carb orientated... Continue Reading →

I've been falling a bit behind on blogs. We're in Dublin right now and our days have been very full. We're staying a 40 minute bus ride out of the city centre so we're trying to not come back to the hotel during the day; therefore, I have had no time to blog! Sorry avid... Continue Reading →

I awoke to a panicked message from Brendan and Chris talking on the phone. All I overheard mid slumber was, "well yeah just get back here as soon as you can I guess, it’s 12pm now". I woke up like a lightbulb; checkout had been at 11am. We’d slept through two alarms, numerous texts and... Continue Reading →

I had another horrendous nights sleep. We'd stayed out super late with Lee and Nicholas in Belfast and ended up going to bed around 3am. We woke up around 10.30am and got our stuff together for a 12pm checkout. It was Chris' turn to drive today so he was tasked with driving us to our... Continue Reading →

Didn't get much sleep last night! Me and Chris Tavener were sharing a double and kept touching feet and waking up sharply all night. We started our day with a little lie in and helped ourselves to the AirBnb host's kind offer of free reign on any of the cereal downstairs. Poor guy, we raided... Continue Reading →

So it's been just over a year since the last instalment of The Grand Tour - mine and Chris Tavener's touring show that we're slowly taking around the world. Last time we did mainland Northern Europe and this time we're branching out to the Emerald Isle with The Grand Tour: Second Time’s a charm. We’re... Continue Reading →

Hello again! It's been a little while. I figured a blog post to bring the internet up to date with my life was needed so here's whats been occurring in the last few weeks / months. I've been writing. Loads. I have a new tune in the final stage of a mix that will hopefully... Continue Reading →

I'm awoken by a grunting Yorkshireman at 7.30am; an hour and a half after we'd pulled into a Buffalo Wild Wings car park in a vain attempt to grab a couple of hours sleep before completing our 570 kilometre through-the-night drive from Dortmund to Paris. A dull ache is behind my eyes, my mouth is... Continue Reading →

We pick up on the road to Dortmund. The drive was a long one; six hours. Me and Chris split the driving and planned a stop off to visit Eltz Castle on Brendan's recommendation. Brendan is a huge fan of Castles, and having missed Neuschwanstein after Munich we needed to let him get his medieval... Continue Reading →