The Slow Burn
28 February 2018
Lengthened, ill-defined shadows overlapped like hazy Venn diagrams and the world took on a dim, dusk-blue iridescence that tugged at his tangled viscera.
My goal with The Slow Burn was to explore the idea that a seemingly innocuous, everyday event, can have far reaching implications on the psyche of a maturing boy (or girl). The protagonist’s perceptions…
MoreCover of Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android”
6 December 2017
I always wanted to learn this song beginning to end but never got past the first part, life just usually took over and I’d forget about it. But I still wanted to tackle this challenging song completely on acoustic. 20 years on (Radiohead are releasing a 20th Anniversary Edition of OK Computer on the 23rd…
I always wanted to learn this song beginning to end but never got past the first part, life just usually took over and I’d forget about it. But I still wanted to tackle this…
MoreCover of Lisa Hannigan’s “We, The Drowned”
21 April 2017
A live cover of Lisa Hannigan’s “We, The Drowned”, voice and guitar.
I decided to put my camera and guitar to better use and record this cover of a Lisa Hannigan track. The tuning is 1 1/2 steps down from how she plays it because she…
MoreKeep The Fire Alight
7 October 2015
Bare skin on plastic, a collage of ether dreams, now crystallised.
A 500-word short story I entered for the September CultOfMe competition – I didn’t win. I know, scandal.
The brief was to write 500-words or less inspired by the accompanying image. I really enjoyed writing it, and…
MoreSnowmen
4 September 2015
Rationed voices croak: Not today, I’m saving that tin of something.
Every city, a constellation of sufferers,
As if some artist in the sky
Flicked a paint-soaked brush across the map marking each spot damned.
Down every alley and up and through every high rise
The sound of stomachs…