21 weeks ago I had a thought… Should I do a song challenge? I have a new home, a new environment and new neighbourhood to explore, a new set of people to get to know. Would this be a good time to challenge myself to create a new body of work? A good time to…
This may come as a surprise to some of you but I was not always as confident as I am now. I used to be the shy kid who got bullied. The one that hides behind her Mum’s legs, who wouldn’t get into the game no matter how good the prize was if it meant being…
Since posting my celebratory blog post about having been a full time independent musician for five years a bunch of folks have been asking how I did it. So here are a few tips to get you started! 1. Stash some cash! As with all start-up businesses there will be a period when you don’t make a…
Busking is awesome on soooo many levels! Busking has been as massive training ground for me and the spring board to other things. I first got in to busking when my friend Lee and I both bought AER Acoustic Mobile amps, they have batteries and you can take them anywhere. We started doing it for fun…
Biiiiiig thanks to my band Cheryl Pearce, Ryan Robinson, Phil heard, Pete Sherman and George Shilling for helping make this a great gig, one of my favourites ever. Loved the spontaneous never before rehearsed rendition of Breathe that we did in the sound check.. It set us up for a really enjoyable performance. Thanks to…
Just in case you don’t know, Pkd festival is in Dunfermline in Scotland. I had a lovely trip to Scotland, performing at PKD Festival, being interviewed on the local radio station and then spending a few days discovering the Scottish highlands. I got a great spot to park my van! Green room was a trailer…
It’s today! Mine and LVB’s one year anniversary. It’s been exactly 365 days since I handed back the keys to my house and officially became a vanlifer! And what a year it has been. If you had told me at the beginning of the build how this year would pan out I would not have…
Unless you were paying special attention when I posted my Theme Song To A Van Life blog post, you might have missed what an enormous Jack Savoretti fan I am, how I have driven thousands of miles listening to him, and how I would dearly love to tour with him as his support act. I would claim…
Sooooo.. By now you know that in my time as a van lifer I have, in the dead of night, been the victim of both an attempted break in and a drive by shooting! But I love Van Life. I love the sense of adventure, the ever changing scene, the ‘here today somewhere else tomorrow’,…
I can’t decide whether this should be a Van Life Loy update or not… It’s been a busy week in Van and out, and it’s hard to separate the two. I write to you from the warmth of the wood burner in The Three Merry Lads, a pub on the edge of the Peak District that…