Don't Read The Comments
The album is out. Thank you to everyone who has listened and shared it. Especially if you've listened to it front to back, no interruptions. (My favourite way to consume music*.) I’m quite happy with how cohesive the record is as a whole. I won’t say too much about it, because I do find it a bit laborious to talk about music. As the maxim says, “talking about music, is like dancing about architecture.” I find that to be very true. Sometimes I’m asked to write a quote about my latest song and my visceral reaction is to think…
No One Is Going To Put You On
I’m off to LA to write some music this week. I’ll be there when my sunset album comes out this Friday. I’m also playing a show with my other project Glass Petals at Sound Nightclub on Thursday. It’s the first night for Walker & Royce’s monthly label residency there! We have been working on some music together too. I love when things all line up and the schedule packs out. Going to write new music in LA feels like a…
Your First Tattoo Is The Hardest
Your 31st tattoo… not as hard. My first one took me about 5 years to decide what I wanted. It needed to be perfect. It needed to mean something. My 31st… I saw it in a window that day and thought it looked cool. 1 hour later it was permanently on my body. I love them both.
I guess that’s a…
I Didn’t Do Enough Today
(…but I probably did.)
I escaped the city for 4 nights to the Sunshine Coast. It’s just far enough that it feels like you’re away, but not so far that it’s a pain to get to. I like the calmness of the world outside of the city. You don’t realize how crowded it is in a city until you come back to it. I guess I would describe myself as a ‘city person’ and because of that, I have a ‘city mind.’ (A term I came up with just now.) I feel like my mind is like the city that I live in. Crowded and unorganized, but also…
The Creative Power of Restrictions
The other day I was thinking about why it’s so hard to start something new. What makes a fresh page scary? What makes a blank canvas daunting? I think the way we're marketed creativity is the same thing that makes us stuck. “Endless Possibilities.” This sounds enticing but…
Sunsets, Pastrami and Nightclubs
I’m on a delayed plane from Ft Lauderdale to Denver, and then I’ll continue back to Vancouver. The flight delay is 40mins and my connection is only 1 hour… should be interesting. “Interesting” is my favourite way to describe “possible impending disaster.” I’m sure when someone saw the Jan 6th crowd outside the capitol, they thought, “should be interesting.”
That reference felt apt since…
EDMonton: A Rave in a Waterpark
I’m currently flying back to Vancouver from Edmonton. I played at Soundwave last night, which was a rave in a waterpark in the West Edmonton Mall. If you don’t know what that mall is, congratulations, you’re probably not Canadian. But in Canada, it’s always been a big thing, I mean… it’s a fucking mall with waterparks (and rollercoasters!) Wild. There’s a sense of nostalgia there, I remember visiting it when we drove to Alberta from BC, and as soon as that chlorine smell hits you, those trips come back in full force. Full circle moments like that in this career are always fun and sort of surreal for me.