It's been a while since I've done an acoustic cover for my Youtube channel but I did a little recording session the other day and have a few lined up now. Starting off with this classic from Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show

I've just finished recording and mastering my new song All You Leave Behind. It will be on general release on all streaming services from November 24th but will probably make an appearance on this website and on my Bandacamp page in advance so watch this space. This is the song I wrote for the Childless festival that I spoke at back in September. We were discussing concepts of legacy, what a person leaves behind, and my fellow panellist and author Robert Nurden suggested I write a song on the subject, so this is it. I performed it for the first time at Childless but that was a solo-acoustic version, the final release is considerably larger in scope with an 80s style synth, jangly guitars and BIG drums. I'm very pleased with it and am excited for people to hear it within the next few weeks.

My new single, Get Into My Jeans with Rosa Lennox on additional vocals is available on Bandcamp and all major streaming services now, or you can listen to it right here for free :-)

This Friday you'll be able to stream this song on all major streaming services, but you can take a listen right now on my Bandcamp page. This is a duet written many years ago, but re-recorded recently featuring the vocal talents of the multi-talented Rosa Lennox

My next single is out later this month. It's called Get Into My Jeans and is a very old song (written in 1998!) that I've re-recorded. It's a duet and my good friend Rosa Lennox has provided the second vocal. I appreciate that last month I released a song called One Night Stand and now I'm releasing this, I would like it to be known that this is the full extent of all the smutty songs I've written. It's all child-friendly from here. Apart from the swearing, I do swear quite a bit.

A few posts back I mentioned that I'd had some mental health problems over the past couple of years and that I was trying to work out a way of talking publicly about it. Fortunately I have a fantastic partner who worked out how to do it. This video is the first attempt. There's more to discuss which is why it's called "Episode 1" but in this video we describe my relationship with music, my songwriting and performing and how it was impacted by the breakdown of my mental health. The breakdown itself is described in a lot of detail and there are descriptions of self harm so please be aware. We're hoping to make a couple more talking about the treatment I had, how it's affected me, the impact on others and what the future holds.

On Saturday I was part of a panel discussing men, childlessness and creativity  as part of Chester Storyhouse's Childless festival. I wrote a song for the occasion which sort of explores the concept of legacy, hence the title What You Leave Behind. This is just a phone recording of the very first live performance of that song, I'm working on a full recording of it now so look out for that in weeks to come.

Today my new single, One Night Stand went live across all major streaming platforms. Now I'm an honest man and I absolutely wouldn't want you to leave it looping overnight for the sake of the fractions of a penny I'll make off each stream. That would be dishonest, you'd be ripping off the billionaires who own Spotify, come on now, have a conscience.

I've been on holiday this last week. My broken leg earlier in the summer lead to cancellation of a planned trip to Croatia for the Love International festival and to cancelling a camping trip too, but we managed to get away for a lovely week in various parts of Wales. I've been talking with my partner Dawn about a new series of videos for my Youtube channel on the subject of mental health and creativity so watch this space for more news on that. I've also started recording the song I've written for Storyhouse's Childless festival and there's likely to be another new release of a duet coming next month. Don't forget, you can stream One Night Stand from all major streaming services from this Friday, presave it here

My new single, One Night Stand, will be on all those horrible streaming services from September 15th, but I'm excited to announce that if you are COOL AND SEXY you can listen to it right now on bandcamp. You will only be able to hear it if you are COOL and SEXY. If you can hear it please comment below that you are, in fact, COOL AND SEXY.

https://bransby1.bandcamp.com/track/one-night-stand