Seeing as I’m not gigging right now, I thought perhaps I should share something of the songs I’m writing at the moment. I’ve uploaded ‘Arctic Winter’ into my song list - I wrote it yesterday. This one isn’t the saddest of the new songs! I reckon ‘Arctic Winter’ might be a better Album title than ‘Music to get divorced to’! It does leave me with a bit of problem: how do I transfer these songs onto guitar? As there’s no way I’m lugging a piano around with me?

I love nature documentaries and this pull comes through really strongly in ‘Arctic Winter’. When I was wee I used to want to be a hermit living somewhere in the highlands of Scotland; partially it was in a desire to be away from people but it’s also part of my sense of peaceful aloneness in nature. Surprisingly (for my parents anyway) I grew into a loud extrovert but my nature connection creeps into many of my songs.

I’ve got a few fans who are children, and that makes me very chuffed (and surprised too). Noticing what they like and sing back to me has inspired me to try and be more descriptive in the way I paint the songs, as it’s the imagery that they really respond to. I suspect that the ‘child test’ (and teenage test) is a good measure of whether a song has lost its point by being too self-absorbed. If you are bored please let me know what you think of me using Piano versus Guitar.