My Authentic Shelf

New music alert! The sparkling new Disappointed Skeptics Club album is live on Bandcamp today! As ever, it was written and recorded during February Album Writing Month and then locked away in a drawer until the summer. I love doing that. Returning to it fresh not only allows me to make clear descisions about song […]

2024 roundup

Annual roundup of fiction what I published this year.

Borrowed Breath

Hey, so in amongst all the book stuff, there’s a new Disappointed Skeptics Club album out too! As usual it was written and recorded during February Album Writing Month, and I’ve spent the time since tweaking it. But there are no more tweaks to be made. It is done. So, the album is called Borrowed […]

2022 Roundup

Well, 2022 is almost done. In some ways, I suppose, it’s been a more hopeful year, though at the same time it’s managed to find new challenges to throw our way too. It feels at least like the world is moving again. Likewise, creatively, I feel like this has been a year of scraping off […]

Amaze Your Friends

Hey, so for the third year in a row, I’ve succeed in getting my musical shit together enough to release a new Disappointed Skeptics Club album. It’s called Amaze Your Friends and contains eight brand new songs about magic, misdirection and the power of belief (and disbelief). As before, all of the songs were written […]

2021 Roundup

Another barmy year, eh? A year of obsessively watching trends and numbers and graphs, of living carefully and hopefully. A year of feeling that life was getting back to normal, until it wasn’t. Another year of losing friends. And of doing the only thing a creative person can do, get the head down and continue […]

Mon the Monsters!

February this year brought another February Album Writing Month and, eager for a distration from All This (TM), I dived right into it. Skip forward over a few months’ of industrious beavering and I’m finally pretty pleased to be able to reveal…the a new album by The Disappointed Skeptics Club! Behold: Monsterism! The theme of […]

No More Heroes anthology

It’s said the golden age for music is whatever age you are when you first connect with it on a visceral, personal level. When the sounds and styles and images and personalities of the bands fuse with your crystalizing sense of self. You always remember the songs you fell in love with when you were […]

Disappointed Skeptics now streaming

A couple of weeks back I released my first album of new music for donkeys years, over on Bandcamp. It’s been lovely to see folks going over there to listen to get acquainted with The Disappointed Skeptics Club (and even buy it!) but if you’re more of a streaming person these days, there’s good news. […]

2019 Roundup

Woah, that was a fast one. Like, blink and you miss it fast.* Right? *Insert gif of Man staring gormlessly at Butterfly and asking: “Is this ageing”? Yeah well, maybe. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve packed so much into this year that I’ve just had no time to watch the weeks roll merrily by. […]