A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

And so this is Christmas. And what have we done? Not a lot.
Christmas was okay this year, except it didn’t feel christmassy in the slightest. I guess as time goes on your parents and the people around you put less and less effort into maintaining the magic for you, so you become less and less [...]

Hello sexy new people!

You’re looking fantastic today.

^I did that last night. Go me! I’m just curious as to how many of you have already seen it an’ that. Go ahead, post a comment! I’m just jealous of Alex’s blog because he always gets like 50 comments on all the blog entries he posts. Where can I get that [...]

Bloggity Bloggity Blog Blog

I don’t know how Alex does it – the constant blogging (often more than once a day) – admittedly, he has six years of practice backing him up, but even so I can’t understand where he gets the time or the energy to live his life in such a fashion that blogging nearly every day [...]

London Launch Party – a retrospective

So all of three days ago now, I played at my London album launch, which was held at the George on the Strand. It was really rather ace. (for those of you who are in the US, the NY launch is on December 12. Click here for the facebook event page.)
The original plan was to [...]

Art is not an art any more.

Guys, I’m sick of this. The world of art and artists has become so slovenly, amorphous and bloated that while the very tip of it has crawled and slimed its way up onto a pedestal, it’s left a wide trail of itself lying confused on the stairway, and most of it is immobile, upside-down, on [...]

AN ALBUM! AN ALBUM!

Now guys, I don’t want to alarm you, but I’ve done something pretty freakin’ huge:
That’s right! Painfully Mainstream, my second album, is on general release from today on DFTBA records! It’s got ten wonderful lovely songs on, including favourites such as Indigo, Porphyrophobia, Song For The Painfully Indie, Autumnsong, and MANY MORE!
We’re looking to get [...]