Album launch for Nelue confirmed in Madrid

Rewinding a few months.... I collaborated on a couple of tracks with the awesome Spanish DJ and producer Nelue earlier in the year.  He will be releasing his new album "Both Sides" in September and I'll be heading to the album launch in Madrid to join him on stage for the grand event!

There'll be a couple of dates to follow at some point in Barcelona and Bilbao.

The album launch will be on Friday 19th September - the other dates to follow soon...

Summer Storm

MAN! Has it been an eventful and turbulent few couple of months!


I've been studying the Audio Mixing course whilst working the 3 month notice period in my IT job.  Also in that time, we've also played the first Bilamie gig (my electro duo) and finished off recording the album, I had my bag stolen complete with my music laptop and *many* other indispensable items and then last weekend I moved house too!


Luckily my musical soul sister Beth had another copy of the Bilamie album so we are still on target for a release date sometime in Autumn time :D  Unfortunately though, all of my solo work from the last year has been lost. No time to cry though! I got a replacement laptop last week and am well underway on recording a new song. It's over a year since I posted any new music up so I can't wait now to get something out there!


There's just a couple of weeks left before I leave my IT job and I can really concentrate on music, so I'm counting down the days now!

Start of the 4 Day Week

Today feels like a good day... I start my course at Point Blank Studios learning about mixing in Ableton and I'm taking every Monday off my job as an IT Consultant to do this course from now until I've worked my notice by the end of June.

It's going to be a busy (and awesome!) few months; also during this time we're recording and mixing for the Bilamie album, going to Glastonbury, moving to a temporary house (and I'm meant to be shedding a stone during this time as well hehe).

I've been trying to find tools to assist me in terms of planning, reminders, storing lyrics & notes etc. mainly to get the music side of my life more streamlined. There's many Apps and pieces of software out there. I'm using 3 different ones at the moment, the first being Evernote - this has been good for creating folders/files and sharing between people (view or edit), between devices (Mac/iPhone/iPad) and there's other sides to it such as storing audio notes too, so I think this will become more useful going forward. Also I got a free upgrade to the premium version because I have a contract with o2!

I've recently updated my settings on iCloud so my calendars sync between devices and you can have different calendars within the same space (Bilamie / Personal / Work etc) so I've been utilising that better.  The third helpful piece of software is a basic online project planner called http://www.tomsplanner.com/ so that is better for planning the progress of tasks over weeks/months and structuring it so you can see whether tasks are interdependent.

Time to go and prepare for class now.  I'm gonna be a STUDENT again...kind of.

Only less drunk this time...possibly.

New Electro Duo "Bilamie" / Music College / Remixing

It's been a while since the last update... but there's been lots happening!

In September last year, myself and an old friend (Beth Swain / Mucky Cherub) started working together and formed an electro duo called Bilamie.  We've been working hard ever since; writing and recording our first album.  This weekend we'll record the 7th and 8th tracks - so it's well on the way now. We're still developing our initial sound as our first batch of songs progress and we mix the album but we hope to have the album complete by the end of Summer.

We also have our first gig booked on Tuesday 29th April at The Bedford in Balham (London).

In addition to Bilamie, I've started making remixes, which I'll post to Soundcloud when I've finished. If anyone is interested in doing a remix swap or would like me to remix a track of theirs, give me a shout!

I've been working with the artist Spanish DJ/Producer Nelue on vocal parts for a couple of songs as he prepares for his latest album - and I'll be recording a new YouTube cover video soon - with full backing arrangement this time :D  Here's a YouTube video of one of Nelue's older songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjpHCmCmHZ0

I booked myself on to a course at Point Blank Music College in London called "Art of Mixing & Mastering" award and that will be starting next month.

I'm also taking a few months away from my regular job (as an SAP Consultant) this Summer to concentrate on my musical adventures :D

Songs of Love and Hate (Gig)

I'm going to be playing at this on Sunday night...
http://www.solobar.co.uk/whats-on/479-love-and-hate-01-september-2013.html
And playing there as well is an awesome musician in London Beth Swain
I'll be singing my favourite songs that I've been playing on the open mic circuit recently including remakes of Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock' and Florence + The Machine's 'Cosmic Love', an old song of mine from 2001 that I never played live before "Where It Hurts", a new song of mine 'Streets Of Camden' and some more..

Photos thanks to Solo Bar Website :)

Gig in Madrid

I'll be playing a gig in Madrid in early November - will post more details soon!


-- Desde Mi iPhone

Don't Let The World Get In The Way - Live Video

I got this recorded the other week at the same time as Cosmic Love - am hoping to have another one coming soon.

If you click to go to YouTube, the lyrics are in the video.

I usually upload Cover songs to YouTube but this is one of my own... It's a love song from last Summer... :)