14/08/2022

37 years ago this month, The Majority made its live debut. This has been the only band that I have ever been in or made music with until I created Fields of Dawn a couple of years ago. The Majority should have gone further than it did, but being 19 and utter piss heads did

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13/08/2022

As part of the promotion for A New Dawn, I have released Here We Go from the album as a digital single. When it comes to the album, although it will be available on digital streaming platforms, I am hoping people will actually decide to buy it, because the whole point of the album is

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12/08/2022

When the “Goodbye Farewell” EP was released in 2020 my thinking at the time was to possibly do a whole album with people singing my songs. But then I thought that I needed to stand up and perform them myself. Until recently I would never ever have had the balls to sing anywhere apart from

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11/08/2022

Having a little bit of fun with Here We Go, track 6 on the Fields of Dawn album, A New Dawn. For the digital version of the album I use Distrokid, which gets my music onto all the music download and streaming platforms such as Spotify, Amazon and iTunes etc. This is a little marketing

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10/08/2022

It’s typical when you are not in a rush for something it arrives in double quick time. I only did my passport renewal application a couple of weeks ago and today it arrived. I bet if I had been wanting it in a rush it would have taken forever. I have no immediate travel plans,

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09/08/2022

Hopefully the status of the Fields of Dawn Vinyl LP above will not cause too big a spanner in the works. I am well rehearsed with the global shipping situation, so this did not come a massive surprise. Hopefully, as this is being shipped by air any delay won’t be too long and fingers crossed

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08/08/2022

A great act of support and kindness was received today at work. One of the final things I’ve needed to source for the charity album has been the cardboard postal sleeves to send out the Vinyl LPs. Being in the packaging materials game you might think that this would be easy for me to sort,

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07/08/2022

Last Autumn I reached a pretty low point. Thankfully I sought professional help and I am now in a much happier place and feel that I am moving in the right direction. It’s interesting looking back as many of the problems that got on top me remain, but my mindset is now totally different and

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06/08/2022

Track 10: No Man’s Land. This is the big curve ball track on my Fields of Dawn album A New Dawn, which is a guitar fest of power pop, indie and alternative melodic anthems. Aside from No Man’s Land which is a piano led ballad. I have always loved history and at the same time

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05/08/2022

Laura Hopkinson posted some lovely stories on Instagram tonight talking about the Laura Lou teddy bears. Bearing in mind she is going through so much at the moment, this was a lovely thing for her to do and above and beyond the call of duty. Much love to Laura and everything crossed for a positive

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