My new album ‘Good for Roses’  was 

 released via the Absolute Label

(Universal/Sony) on 18 April 2025,

it was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s

Real World Studios, and produced by Kris Wilkinson Hughes (My Girl The River).

  

 Good For Roses’,  is a personal one, songs

about life-defining moments, good and bad

mixed with songs about how I feel a lot of

the time about myself and the world. 

If there is one thing I am sure about

now I am older, it is that out of hard times

good things come. There is a line in the

first track on the album, Bring me Love,

‘Shit is good for roses, we just have to hold

our noses on the way’.   I wanted the title of

this album to reflect the struggle and the

joy.  There is a pink rose outside my kitchen window and, as the rest of the garden dies

away and there is frost on the ground,

it blooms. I love its resilience.”

 

“I wrote these 11 songs sat in my van, over

the space of a year. I went to Real World

Studios, my band came too: Andy Evans

on guitars, John Brooker on bass, Roger

Nunn on drums, Harry Whitty on keys,

trumpet, trombone  and with Kris Wilkinson Hughes in the Producer’s chair we brought

them to life. We brought in the fierce

Aaron Catlow on the fiddle and

Dan McConkey on sax and clarinet and,

when my friend the wonderful Bella Collins,

came for dinner one night we grabbed her

for guest vocals.  Such a team effort all

mixed and engineered by super talented

Grammy Award winning 

head engineer at Real World, Katie May.”

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