Thoughts of a frontman, reboot, part 1

It’s Tuesday, 8.32pm, 22nd April 2025 and I’m sat in a room in our garden that my friend helped me slowly build on a budget a few years back, wondering whether it'll start raining to supercharge the spring. Life is busy and in amongst my family and career commitments (including a diploma in Project Management), my passion for creating and performing music persists and I’m driven to create the conditions for making my best work yet…..my instinct to take a prolonged break from social media due to the constant heart breaking drip dosing of dystopia feels at odds with where the music industry has gone but I’m convinced that only by cutting myself off and fading even deeper into oblivion is where I’ll find my greatest ideas.  I ponder how to reconnect with an audience once I’ve created my masterpiece.  Will anyone be interested?  Typically – my kind of music is a little niche and highly regarded (modesty aside) but lowly circulated. I resent playing the game of self-promotion and feel blessed not to have to strain to maintain gigs and output in such a way that would be required if it were my main source of income.  I respect but don’t envy those for whom music is their living.  By failing (as I have by most metrics) I’ve reserved the freedom to do as I please.  I’ve made it, by not making it – in that I know how to complete a music project, have a wonderful network of musicians to collaborate with and my sanity is largely intact. How many venues will be left; how many promoters will have moved on once I remind people of my awesome muso abilities; how many minds damaged to distraction by the endless instant gratification of neurotic streaming of ever safer music - is not something I can control.

I think, but am never sure, that the best way to go about all this is to document the process – utterly boring to most but how else am I to connect with people and myself?  So here it is – the first of a rebooted blog about musical projects in years – accompanied by some insta/facebook/tiktok disposable content, if we must.  Join me as I attempt to avoid being distracted and seek to go deeper in focus, patience and finesse than ever before - but be patient people - this is a slow burn...probably...and it's called ... 'Video_1' – one song at a time from birth to death / maturity and repeat - for as long as this works. Here's to human connection.

No AI was harmed in the making of this blog.