I am also stopping in Cairns for a week to finish Recording my new album.
I’m scared about how hot it will be!!
here’s some pics from recording in December. Photos by Stu Larsen (knowing him)
Hi guys, hope you have had a great year and are now enjoying the festivities and break from normality.
Check out my new summer single ‘Get Through it’. This is a song I have had kicking around for a few years now and wanted to release it in summer, rather obviously I thought….
Listen out on Classic Hits/the Edge/More Fm/Zm and over the summer break.
I Have been working on my new album at home in Tauranga for the last few months, and will continue working on it in Cairns/Australia through-out Feb/March. Then it will hopefully be finished. Also my first ever aussie tour coming up early in twenty-twelve!!!!!!
also here is poem I wrote a while back while walking around Wellington. just because…I guess you could call it a failed song…but I prefer poem, makes me sounds way cooler…I put it on the sleeve for The Water Ep, so thought i better post it here too…
beggars of wealth
So I’m stumbling drunk down Courtenay place and thinking ’bout drinkin’ more
‘cos my mind is numb and my conscience is cut from all the blank people I saw
So I keep on walking I keep on drinkin’ don’t much matter what for
when everyday ends the same as the last and leaves me aching for more
and the hunger don’t leave when you wake again its still gnawing at your mind
‘cos when you don’t need nothing, you don’t heed nothin and you ain’t got nothin’ to find
and the dreams that had you don’t understand so you just forget them gone
the tyres don’t turn and the fire don’t burn and the sky won’t give you a song
So you learn how to live with the emptiness like a barrow without a wheel
you forget how to love, forget how to think, forget how you really do feel
but you’ve got a nice coat and a new pair of shoes and the doctor says you got a good health
but you look out the window, you look on the street and you only see beggars of wealth
and you never did know why you do what you’ve done, never did ask what for
or why you need all the things that you got and you get when it seems you only ever need more
you can fear the wanting you can fear getting old you can even fear fear itself
but most you fear having less than you had before so you work like a beggar of wealth
We are the beggars of wealth
we are the poorest of poor
caught in the cycle of self
To have everything, but always need more
I’m super excited to anounce my first release in 3 years… The Water Ep will be in stores and on itunes April 25. It has 5 tracks. I recorded most of this Ep myself and it has a sweet home recording feel. Really looking forward to sharing it. The songs are -Water / Make My Grave (wherever I fall) / The Voice Of Reason / Foreigners / As a Mountain stands.
My new song ‘water‘ is available now on itunes. My friends Lydia Cole, Dave Baxter and Nic Manders helped me make this. All funds received for this song go to www.good.org.nz and go towards building wells in parts of the world where there is no clean drinking water. 100% of everything the good trust receives goes directly to the projects they support. Check them out and donate if you can. I heard these guys speaking and heard about the amazing things they were doing and then kind of accidentally wrote this song that is very much their’s… buy it here , Listen here
In other news, I shaved all my hair off, feels great, looks stupid… so i’ll just be waiting for it to grow back
