#recycleyourregrets

So what has been happening? Well I am really getting very excited! Not just by this news but just generally in life. The last few months have seen things really start to go well, I have been blessed to meet some amazing new people, people who have given me both perspective and drive and focus. As such I have assembled the best songs I have written over the last year or so and am incredible excited to announce that I will be back in the studio recording a new LP called "Recycle your regrets. It has been a difficult decision what to focus on with this record. But I will do my best to explain, without naming names to those who would not appreciate it.

This album is focusing a lot on some of my biggest regrets, failed relationships and broken plans. Also touches on some family stuff and the difficult situations I have found myself in. To summarise for those of you not in the loop I have managed to totally f**k up a lot of good things in my life, a marriage, some long term relationships, some more recently than I care to talk about. And I have decided rather than to closet these things away to harness these experiences, the good bits and the bad bits, and come to a point of introspection. Now before you think this is gonna be some kind of absolutely depressing piece of 'Oh my God have you ever smiled' sort of release I promise it isn't. I am just using the experience to give what is going to be probably the most honest collection of songs I have ever done. In every album or EP I have ever put out there has always been a certain song or songs that have held a really deep meaning to me, but in this case it is start, middle and ending. 

 

Excited to be back in the studio with Declan Legge at Big space studios, but there is also going to be a change to the style of how we record and indeed the players. First off I have a collection of some of the finest musicians in Northern Ireland on this, with Keith Conway on Drums, Aran Glover doing Keys, with Cello, Double bass and fiddle all making an appearance. It is going to be a big, organic, natural sound and something I am already too excited about.

We got the guide tracks down on Tuesday night which is where we got this little shot taken. It is the first time I have heard these tracks 'together' and I can already see too many places I want to take this record. Now it is going to be released (pencil the date) in around April/May 2017 and there are going to be loads of updates to follow as we all go through this journey, together.

For now though I would like to share the (provisional) cover with you, I think it is a fair summary of how this is going to sound, in the form of a picture... of a teddy bear.

Speak soon guys

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