My latest banjo-led post-apocalyptic folk single - New music video!

Filmed during 22/23 across Wales, Canada, and Australia - I'm over the moon to share with you the music video for my latest single 'Ghost of a Living Man'. I'd love to hear if it resonates with you..

This song is about the experience of seeing familiar things in a completely different way, feeling like a stranger in a once-familiar place, and the journey of rediscovering where you truly belong after feeling lost. Like going through an inner apocalypse and finding your way out to the other side. The burning effigy of a former self.

I wrote the song not long after Covid kicked in. During lockdown I, like most people, found myself reassessing everything, and feeling quite hopeless about it all. I began to feel like I was fading away, becoming a ghost.

I finally realised it was all in my head, my preconceived ideas being challenged sending me into an existential crisis. With perception, there are infinite ways of seeing the same thing, so I found it was merely a case of re-adjusting and re-aligning it. However, that is easier said than done and is more of an ongoing process than ever being completed, but that’s ok, that in itself is part of it.

We all see the same moon at night and the same sun in the morning, we are never truly alone in this, we are all ultimately trying to figure out the same thing. With this knowledge I feel we more than ever need to be united rather than let it push us further apart. It is but a choice, and I feel optimistic, I have to.

Lyrics -

I am the ghost of a living man, footprints forming in the sand

If I close my eyes, it’s me who disappears

So hold my hand, and keep me here

Please hold my hand, and keep me here

Here

Surroundings move as I stand still

River flows over cold skin

If I open my eyes it’s you who disappears

So let me sleep, forever more

More, evermore

Under the same moon,