Writer · Performer · Label Director
I never meant to write lots of songs about mothers. I must look like a therapist’s dream. One is probably excusable, so 2010’s Bedlam Six single “Mother (why did you raise me this way?)” didn’t raise too many eyebrows. Then the Jocasta musical based on the myth of Oedipus. Okay, that does seem like an odd choice but I just wanted to have a stab at tragedy and there’s no tale more tragic than that one! But then being commissioned[read more]
Throughout Scotland’s Year Of Stories 2022 I organised a series of events in community halls around Skye & Lochalsh in collaboration with Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre. The aim was to get people talking about their lives and memories as part of the wider Culture Collective project funded by Creative Scotland and overseen by local events charity SEALL, a covid recovery initiative for artists and communities. The conversations led to songs being written and recorded with local musicians in those[read more]
