As of 10th February 2026, my most popular song 'Microwave' turns 3 years old. This is the story of how it came to be. In mid-October 2022 I posted a TikTok of me singing an early version of Microwave (just the intro verse) with just an acoustic guitar, and it quickly became my most popular video, getting about 500k views in a couple days. I soon passed 10k followers on TikTok thanks to that video, and I decided to record that same intro verse properly, with bass and drums, a

Hello readers of my irregularly-updated blog, it is February 1st, so I thought I'd do a bit of a brief round-up of the most interesting things that happened in the first month of 2026...... Birmingham Calling... That's supposed to be a reference to 'London Calling', the song by The Clash, but it doesn't really work if you can't hear me sing it... In the last few months I've been travelling to and from Birmingham quite a lot! It's not too difficult for me to get there from whe

Well ladies and gentlemen, 2025 is very close to being over. I'm writing this at 11:07am on Dec 30th, and I don't think anything monumentally life-changing will happen in the next day and a half, so I think it's time I did a bit of a summary for this year. It has been my favourite year so far, no doubt. I've explored my creativity a ridiculous amount, and I've become a lot closer with / made a lot of new friends, all of whom should know who they are :-) Enough of that sappy s