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Retrain? Cake Or Death? Bollocks to that!

We all have heard the news about Rishi Sunak and other MPs implying that people in the arts should retrain. There are multiple problems...

Mental Health And Me: Fat Shaming

“If you could just loose some weight...” This is a phrase that I deal with on weekly basis, not to mention the constant use of it in the...

Mental Health And Me: Loneliness (Part 1)

“I have a sense of a big whole in your chest…” My counsellor and I were talking about my personal life, about relationships, and love....

Mental Health And Me : Belonging

I’ve never felt like I truly belonged anywhere until very recently. In primary school, I was put into another class because I wasn’t like...

Mental Health And Me: Toxic Masculinity

Sometimes, some images are hard to get rid of. For me, one of the images is when I got verbally abused in a park. It was truly a...

Mental Health And Me: Acceptance (Part 1)

I never thought that having a mental health issue would ever happen to me, but here I am, writing this blog, with a mental health issue!...

Mental Health And Me: Introduction

Hello all, I’m currently sitting on my sofa, in the afternoon of a very sunny Monday. The weather has been very good recently, which has...

So, 2018 happened!

So we have come to the end of a very long, but deeply fulfilling year for me. Highlights include recording and releasing my debut album,...

Recording day 2

So, we had the brass in today. Lots of singing, playing and generally rocking out (See video below!)! Then, we had Liane Carroll come to...

It's happening

So, tomorrow - the fun starts!! Scores bound, parts taped, rehearsals done!! We start the fun tomorrow at 6:30am (alarm clock!) to get...

Rehearsals!!

So, yesterday- we started rehearsals for the album....!!!!! We managed to fit a big band in one of the smallest rooms in Guildhall......

Title... explain?

A lot of people have asked me to explain the title of the album so here you go: The whole concept of the album is about the human nature....

Title And Featuring...

EXCITING (but slightly short) BLOG STARTS HERE! I can now reveal the Title of the album!!! My debut big band album will be called..........

Writing So Far...

MY FIRST BLOG UPDATE!!... ... ...So, this is what I have been up to for the past couple of months- writing the album! I'm currently...

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