It happens that my song In Love & Lost is iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and NZ till next Tuesday. It’s a free download, so if you head to the front page of the iTunes store you’ll see my little head peeking out at you in the middle there. Don’t forget you can also download a different track on this site for free too.
Yesterday my little EP reached 63 on the iTunes chart in Aus and 30 on the iTunes chart in NZ. A little teeeeeny bit exciting.
Here is what drum said about it…

Have some shows in the works for June and July, will keep you posted.
L x

Today, my EP, Mean Old Clock hits the physical and digital shelves of Australia. 10 years after I first started playing my songs on stage in my early years of high school, 20 years after learning piano as a teeny tiny tot. The clock is not so much mean as it is kind and patient and inspiring. It takes all the hardship and leaves us with the journey. This is a little introduction into who I am and what I’ve seen in my years on the planet so far, people that have touched me and hardships I’ve encountered. One day I stopped and thought, other people go through these things too, that’s when I decided to write songs.
When I had the songs written I teamed up with the talented, well, the genius, Josh Pyke to make a warm sounding record in his home. We just did what the songs asked for while having a laugh and a really really fun time. He has a stockpile of weird and wonderful instruments that we mucked around with and created something that in the past I had only dreamed about. It’s what I’ve always heard in my head, only better.
*my fingers on a wurly*
There are also a couple of songs I recorded while on my travels last year in the states. I found a friend in an incredible guy Mike Daly who used to play and write in Whiskeytown, a band that is now the stuff of urban legends. I played my songs to him and together we perfected them and put them to tape. Universe Can Wait was recorded with a band and Mean Old Clock was just me having fun with many many layers of me me me.
*universe can wait*

Run little songs, it’s time to find your home in the hearts of strangers.

I just got some photos taken for my EP in a dank little crevice underneath Big Jesus Burger studios in Sydney. It was a lot of fun and of course it ended with a few (is 5 a few?) well earned beers, scotches and wines followed by a long and tipsy flight home to bed.
 

Welcome to my corner of the big black hole that is your internet browser. Now I have somewhere I can write, away from myspace blogging. I don’t have to pick which mood I’m in or wait for kudos. I always found it quite hard to choose whether I was blustery, bitchy or just plain blah.

I’ve just had my two Weetbix (don’t they just seem tiny now we’re grown up) and a tea in the vain hope of thawing my frozen-it-shouldn’t-be-winter-yet-in-Melbourne hands. I’m counting down the minutes till I have to get on that train with all the straight faced train people and go to work.