The music video for the B-side was finally released on 17th December, just in time for Christmas...

I am proud of the work done on this together with videographer Max Wyllie, and if you haven’t watched it yet please head to the link here. I have spoken a little about the making of this music video in the previous newsletter but would like to go a bit more in depth here. 

        It starts with the audio then video on TV of the performance at The Water Rats on 4th November 2022, the audio slowly merges into the track whereby the camera slowly drifts to the frames on the wall. I wanted this to feel like a journey into a dreamy memory, scrolling from when I first moved to London to become a full-time musician all the way to the present day. 

        The old scrolling camera effect was introduced to enhance this effect of time passing by until I finally wake up realising it was all just a dream. Interspersed with videos of the live performance at The Water Rats and performing the song on Jubilee Bridge in London are the photos that highlight a few of the important milestones in my musical journey so far. The very first photo on the wall is me playing guitar to my daughter when she was still a baby, then the camera moves on to my early years busking in Trafalgar Square/the performance with Rod Stewart in Piccadilly Circus/the various artistic collaborations (for The Teenage Cancer Trust with Alistair Morisson and the book Fantastic Voyage by Adam Geras)/the travels abroad performing/the launch nights/images of the music videos that came out… The timeline finally ends on the release of the album Ocean Sky.

        These are just a few of the various projects/adventures I’ve been lucky to be a part of during my time on this earth as a musician. It serves as a personal reminder that the journey is what it’s all about as I believe that we shouldn’t focus on an end goal because ultimately there is no real destination. The milestones are what create the memories and a very poignant quote always comes back to me when I think of time passing by: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon. For me, this really epitomises the passage of time: we are not aware of its presence in the now but it’s continuously scrolling before our eyes, in the background, weaving experiences into our lives and slowly moulding us as human beings… It’s fair to say I feel like a very different person today than when I first decided to embark on this musical venture all those years ago, and it’s fair to say I will be a very different person years to come from now, such is the effect of time on a life.