Coming Home is the third single off my 4th studio album. I have always enjoy performing this one live. I initially wrote it in Australia over 15 years ago, and have since tweaked the lyrics to complete the song. Sometimes songs get recorded and after playing them live hundreds of times, you realise there's room for refinement and the song feels like it's now complete.
I've been fortunate to have been working with a great producer / singer-songwriter from Scotland recently. He's someone you'll be hearing a bit more about this year. Dan Healy and Ronan Keating Meet Dan Healy, he's super talented and works with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ronan Keating and many more. He's also an actor and was the lead singer in the musical built around the 'Once' movie we all fell in love with a few…
It's been 5 years since Blair Kiddey began his new job as the host of the Breeze in Nelson. He asked me at a festival I was performing at (he was the stage MC) about writing a Nelson Christmas song. Well, after a weekend of furious writing, Blair sent me some lyrics and asked if I could "play a few guitar chords" over and record it. After 80 hours of recording, editing and rallying the troops, we came up with…
The Dream is the second single from my upcoming 4th studio album. The lyrics were likely inspired by my late night train rides to and from gigs in the city. The trip was 2 hours each way and that’s where I learnt to play the harmonica. The lights of the city that I'm leaving behind me, poking holes in the darkness, it will always remind me, that what doesn't kill can make you feel stronger somehow." Dreams are amazing things.…
Ain’t No Flame is the first single off my 4th studio album. It’s a song that was inspired by the deadly fires in Nelson/Tasman in 2019. I have always worked alongside recording engineers on previous tracks, and this time I wanted to self-produce this in my own Recording Studio. It was recorded and mixed at Hummingbird Recording Studio Nelson, New Zealand.