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Singer-songwriter and live musician from Edinburgh, Scotland

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Good evening everyone! I hope you are all well and taking care of yourself and any immediate others right now too. I am playing another online gig this Sunday at 5pm GMT. This time, it is an online festival organised by my friends and comrades RedHeadMusic and it will be streamed live on Zoom with singers (see below) from around the world performing for you! There will be a PayPal link for you to make donations to the musicians, if you can afford to do so! I’m really looking forward to this one and to being part of this wonderful, international online festival 😁 I want to say a quick word of thanks to everyone who watched my live gig last Saturday night and to everyone who made donations too. I received great feedback and will be doing another, solo gig again soon! Spread the word for Sunday! Solidarity 🌛🌹

My next gig is this Saturday (28th) on Facebook Live! There’ll be a PayPal link for you to make donations, if you feel so inclined to do so! I’ll be playing a set of my own songs and some folk, roots and world covers for you all to sit back and enjoy. Spread the word and I’ll see you on Saturday night!

Hello all. These are some shitty, shitty times to be inhabiting this planet of earth, water and confusion. But I hope you like my drawing which I drew to lift my own mood and to tell myself that it will pass, and I hope that it will lift your mood too, if you’re down, or reassure you that this will pass and won’t last forever. Solidarity 🌛

One night last week, Grangemouth refinery was all fiery, smokey and atmospheric. Then, the other day, I drew a picture of how I remembered it looking and, today, I’m posting on to your timeline amongst pictures of your pals pets, weans and nights out. I hope you like it 🙂

Hello everyone and welcome to the 3rd Friday of 2020. I hope we’re all settling into the new year as well as is possible! I’m playing my first gig of the year next Thursday (23rd) at the Leith Festival Burns Night in the Leith Docker’s Club. I’ll be performing Burns’ classic poem, “A Man’s A Man”. It’s a great piece of literary work all about the fraternities all people share regardless of race, creed or class. I’m really looking forward to playing, Leith Festival is a wonderful community initiative and I say all power to them. More events like Leith Festival, less Underbelly! 🌛🚩

As the end of the decade approaches, I would just like to thank everyone who has been there with me and supported me throughout my journey as a musician and singer-songwriter. If you went out your way to watch me play, or bought a CD, downloaded or streamed my songs, booked me for a gig or told a friend about my music, thank you. To all the musicians, poets, playwrights and promoters, venue managers, union reps and sound engineers that I met and made my experiences of playing richer and better, thank you. Since I began writing, recording and performing in 2013, I’ve played all over the UK, in Ireland, Spain, Germany and Portugal. Each gig taught me something about myself, my music, where we were both going and I am grateful to everyone who gave me the opportunity to play at festivals and gigs in the towns and cities in these countries. To all the friends I picked up along the way, thank you too. Being a solo musician can be a lonely experience sometimes but meeting other musicians doing the same things and swapping mad stories and great experiences has been wonderful. Who knows where the 2020s will take me, I certainly don’t. I’m not even sure if I’ll still be singing and writing songs. But, if I am, I will continue to be grateful for the help, support and new experiences you all give me. Happy New Year to you all when it comes. 🌛

Another Hallowe’en party, another Fidel costume. The benefits of having a beard are limitless! @elmcc ✊🎃👻🇨🇺🌹

Spent the past week becoming one with nature and English real ale in Shropshire. . . . 🌲🌧🌞🍁🍻🌜

Meeting the locals and making friends out in the English countryside.

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