I'll be talking about how I helped develop the Sonnet with the folks at Blackstar Amplification, taking questions from the audience on anything from gear to songwriting to football as well as performing some of my songs in an…
Live music coming back has felt like a miracle. I feel like an actual physical person. I think we're made real by connecting with others. So I'm taking to the road again in my homeland. Please come, I'll make a…
Blown away to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at Ards International Guitar Festival this weekend. Look, it's my guitar case! The one everyone sent me stickers for. Immortalised in ceramic by artist Andrew Cooke. I was completely stunned, and a…
September 25th 2021 is the 10th anniversary of the release of Passionflower. The song that changed my life. It sent me spinning round the world on stages and TV shows and all that. But suddenly, people were connecting with me…
I reckon everybody should be helping everybody get back to live music, so I've decided to open up the support slots for my long-delayed UK Tour to applications from local performers (musicians, bands, poets, comedians, I love it all).
If you head over and comment on the video at youtube or facebook (and please share it while you're there), you could be one of 3 people who will each win this bundle of stuff: A signed Deluxe album/book, a…
My apocalyptic love song from the album The Faintest Idea. If you wrote a love song like this, who (or what) would you dedicate it to? Tell me via socials or email, and I’ll pick one answer and…
Incredibly emotional watching this. To have been on this adventure with my childhood dream guitar company, to design a guitar perfect for my style of playing... I do not deserve it.
Puzzled to discover that I am officially not rubbish. To be honest it's ridiculous for me just to be mentioned on such an incredible list of proper guitarists.
By far the best thing about recognition like this is the pride…
Kinda embarrassing using myself as a model, but when you get a new T-shirt in lockdown there's not much choice. So, here's the new limited edition The Faintest Idea unisex shirt in vintage black with white art screenprint. Ethically produced…
Things are not looking great for real-life gigs here in the UK at the moment, so to mark the release of The Faintest Idea, I'm streaming a gig from my home studio, live on my website.
It's not unexpected, but I'm still crushed to announce that I'm having to reschedule The Faintest Idea UK/Eire Tour. Here are the new dates for late 2021.
Tickets are on sale now, and any tickets already purchased are transferable, except…
New album out today, plus new video This song is my maximum rhythm, I hope it finds your feet. It’s called Dream Factories, it’s about how music, our lives, our dreams - they’re taken, remade and sold back to…
This is the last single before album release day on October 16th. You can pre-order The Faintest Idea now on CD, Vinyl double-LP, or the Deluxe edition: A beautiful book of art and words, plus 3 discs…
My first new single in 7 years, Cocoon, is out today on all streaming platforms. Here's the video, I hope you like it (if you do, please share it with others).
I have bled and wept trying to forge an album of intensely personal songs, with my solo acoustic guitar and voice placed in an immersive sonic landscape of vast digital skies and…
An even longer lesson, over 2.5 hours of detailed instruction from me, covering a huge range of modern techniques, and showing how to use them to build…