Original Blog Archive
In 2014, I started to document my solo journey that was already taking me to about 12 or 13 countries a year on 4 continents, as I took to living like a digital nomad of the artistic kind.
Essentially trying to build a house with no land, I was trying to achieve the impossible. I had no fixed home, no security blanket and no tangible mentorship within my inner circles for what I was trying to achieve as a professional artist.
Living on the edge by doing things like flying all the way to Australia on a 3 month ticket with only £200 to my name, I was couchsurfing, busking, renting out hostel space and inevitably found myself in rough places along the way, which included having rats for room mates on a floor mattress in Amsterdam, all juxtaposed to also playing well-known festivals/venues and rubbing shoulders with successful artists that I look up to.
These blog posts give you an idea of what I’ve had to do in order to get to my current position, as I continue to build what is essentially the airport I needed to design in order to make sure my dreams to fly high on stages around the world come to fruition. A one man corporation, which takes lots of time and energy to piece together…
What I’m Doing Right Now:
It’s Halloween, the last day of October and I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark just 90 minutes away from playing my last gig here.
Do You Know?
Do You Know? What was the first thing you did without having to ask for permission? Who buys your attention and who earns it?
The Magic Of Berlin:
The first time I ever saw Berlin was for three quick days in August 2013. I had heard so many great things about this Bohemian city and
Post Natal Depression:
Ghostrider, my first-ever single came out in April 2014. I literally broke my back to get it out. Having no single was like being an actor with no headshot/profile photo
Something She Said Really Hit Home!
Okay, let me set the scene: It’s about August 2012 and I’m living at a backpacker’s lodge called Shoestrings in stunning Victoria Falls Zimbabwe.
How Said Name Was Birthed:
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to be an astronaut, you’d have to be one of the lucky few chosen and capable ones, who were trained up by NASA and got to fly to the moon! Like… Wowzers!
Today, if you want to go to the moon, you have to build your own rocket! I mean, figure out how oxygen tanks work, learn about rocket science, chemical, electrical and space engineering, figure out how to build a crapper that works in zero gravity and so much more!