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We The Wild Ones is officially published today!

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It’s a collection of poems, stories and art inspired ‘The Wild’.
In the book, ‘Wild’ is wild nature but also the wild inside us- the freedom to think our own thoughts, dream our own dreams and ‘walk wherever wonder leads’.

And….the freedom to publish our own books exactly the way we want them!
I hope it’s a playful, uncompromising book in both form and content- hence the mix of stories, art and poems. There’s also no tedious blurb or quotes on the back- the title poem instead. I want you to be in the wild-otherworld of the book completely on every bit of every page.

It started from the need to re-print my story ‘High in the Old Oak Tree’, which is included, but there’s a lot lot more.

I’ve been spending the Summer at Fests and libraries performing stories and poems from it, planning workshops, and making up creative games based on the book. I’m all set to visit schools over the next school year to perform and run workshops based on the book. I’ve got quite a few lined up but would love more! If you work in a school and would like a visit please get in touch.

New Single Release- The Starling Ballroom

So… I don’t like flying.

On the way back from Portugal earlier this year I found the best way to distract myself (from thinking about the fact I was in a metal box hurtling through the sky) was to make music on my iPad.

Since then I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of obsessive music making mixing electronic and acoustic sounds. All instrumental, no vocals.

I’ve now completed an album’s worth of stuff which will be called Feel Good Film. The title reflects the feel of most of the music. The album will soon be ready to be out in the world and ignored on all streaming services. 😊

It has been a joyously playful experience staying up late and getting this done.

This is the first track I’m putting out there: The Starling Ballroom.

It’s based on an ultra slowed down and reversed recording of a waltz setting from an old casio, but then goes into a nice 12 string guitar sound, with shooting star atmospherics.

I was thinking of the Olivia Coleman film empire of light while I was making it, and to me it is about the scenes in that film where the two main characters meet in an abandoned cinema.

In that film the birds were pigeons but I thought Starling Ballroom sounded better than pigeon ballroom.

Please give it a listen and maybe add it to your “happy sad filmic primitive electronica meets open tuned 12 string” playlist.

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