Here is another song recorded by me at home in my attic studio. This is ‘Falling On My Feet’, a song I wrote in a hospital in London called Park Royal Centre For Mental Health. The staff there very kindly let me keep my guitar with me on the acute ward. In the midst of a psychosis, I scrawled the lyrics over and over in my book trying to put the words into some kind of order.

When I recorded it in Australia the following year for my album ‘Stranger Place’ it took several takes and some sangria to get through the verses without tears. But despite the fact that it was written at a terrible time the song turned out to be a premonition – I’d thought I was just falling but actually I was falling on my feet.

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We’ve just released the first in a series of videos called ‘Songs From My Attic’, basically me performing acoustic, unplugged versions of my songs at home in my lovely attic studio. I’ve been wanting to do this for ages.

Here’s the first one which is ‘Start Over Again’, a song very close to my heart (it’s on my third album ‘Believer’). I’ll also be doing readings from my books as well as singing songs. If you follow me on Facebook or subscribe to my Youtube channel you’ll get a notification when I put a new one up.

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I love Christmas. I love the lights and the carols and the cold and most of all giving presents.  So I was gutted to find myself on Christmas Eve stuck in bed sweating like I was in a sauna with the most horrible pain in my legs and back.  Ah the joys of flu.  I slept for 5 days, missing all the fun we were supposed to be having.  Never mind, there’s always next year…

Just been finishing the artwork for my new album ‘A Bit Of Blue’ which goes to press this week.  I’m looking forward very much to the album launch in London next month.   If you’re free on Friday 24th February it would be fab to see you there.

Hope all’s well in your world.

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It’s been, for me, an amazing year.  This time last year I couldn’t play my instruments at all and had lost all my confidence in performing.   Now I’m doing gigs again and looking forward to the dates we’ve booked for next year.

Doing hospital gigs, working for The Big Issue, playing pubs and clubs, getting such a fantastic response to my fan-funding campaign for ‘A Bit Of Blue’, seeing fans again at gigs, has all rebuilt me from the ground up.

Big love and thanks to all of you for your support.  I wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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