02/08/2022

A New Dawn by Fields of Dawn Today I have uploaded A New Dawn to my Bandcamp site. Bandcamp is great site to buy music from as their fees are much lower than other digital platforms. Although I’d love people to purchase from rivers2cross, I am making the album available on as many platforms as

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28/07/2022

With my Fields of Dawn album, A New Dawn, not too far away now, I am thinking of new promotion ideas. I’ve planned to release a video of a track off the album. So I now have an expanded idea to release a digital single with a video. However, I don’t want to just release

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27/07/2022

Today, I finally got round to ordering a new passport. My last one ran out a couple of years ago at the start of the pandemic, so there was little point in bothering to renew it at the time. I haven’t been someone who has been chomping at the bit to get on a plane,

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26/07/2022

Today has been a day of arrivals. This wonderful print arrived today and is the creation of the amazingly talented Lucy Dunbar. There is no mistaking the late Dame Deborah James and Lucy is selling these prints to raise funds for the Bowelbabe Fund. It’s such a beautiful illustration and once the frame arrives it

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14/07/2022

It has been an incredible 24 hours in the land of Fields of Dawn. Last night as I was getting ready for bed, a new order came through for the vinyl LP. I won’t divulge who, or the full details yet, but the order was for 5 copies! The albums will be going to a

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13/07/2022

The third track on A New Dawn is Friends, which was originally released last August to raise funds for Bowel Cancer UK marking the 5th anniversary of losing Mum x The idea behind song came from the years of fundraising where I have been fortunate enough to have made so many new friends. In fact,

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09/07/2022

One of my problems in recent years, certainly as far as overthinking goes, is when I go over and over past events, and this also applies to friendships. I am very fortunate that the vast majority of my friendships have endured and remain rock solid, but I probably have been on the receiving end of

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08/07/2022

I can’t fault the service of the pill box supplier as I only ordered new stock yesterday. It arrived today, so I now have plenty of them ready to make up with the design that speaks for itself. The boxes have a three part compartment inside as well as a mirror! A great way of

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05/07/2022

Today I began work on the CDs for the Fields of Dawn album. Whereas with the vinyl label where I went quite traditional, for the CD I have based the label on the cover design. It should look quite striking. I will post the master CD off tomorrow and then can sit back and wait

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27/06/2022

I love this time of the year when the colours are so vibrant everywhere. I think May is my absolute favourite month, but driving around today it was so stunning. Crystal clear in the sunshine, well when it wasn’t raining that is! Ever since I started working the beautiful village of Sutton Courtenay has been

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