The story begins in the Blue Mountains quite a few moons ago now, when i was staying with my sister in her beautiful rambling house. i would sit on the back steps in the morning sun, serenading the black birds gathering on the tin roof. I started writing songs, thick and fast, the tap turned on, but in a style i hadn't written in before- a more stripped back, country folk feel.
I've always written music to an image i have in my mind, like writing music to accompany a film. My inspiration for these songs was a picture i found in an old French magazine of the beautiful actress Emmanuelle Beart, sitting on a bed, her hair disheveled, smoking a cigarette, naked, vulnerable. I imagined these as the songs she would listen to, venting her demons and mending her wounded heart.


I started jamming these songs with a group of musician friends at Len and Fran's house, setting up in the lounge room, and my dear friend John Kelly would bring his portable set up and record what transpired. I moved to France and John and I worked long distance on the mixes.
I recorded some more songs in a little school outside of Paris. Mikelangelo (from the Deep Sea Gentlemen) wrote a beautiful ballad for me called 'take hold of my heart', and his deep voice and guitar feature on the recording. All these recordings have become what is now the album 'Two Dangers'.


All the musicians gave of their time freely and recorded for the love of it, not for money. For me personally i really love this album as it shows a vulnerability that i haven't captured on recordings before. This music for me, strongly conjures Australia, the blue mountains- the soil, the smell of the air, the taste of the storm about to hit...
I want to make this special edition with the digipack to show the work in its best possible way, and honour it and the musicians who played on it. I want to finish this chapter with a beautiful package of music and art, hopefully as beautiful as what the experience was in making it. I'll be in Australia from early April to the end of May. I aim to have the album pressed for when i do my first house concert in Australia on 11th April, with virtuosic guitarist, Matt Tonks. We'll be performing songs from the album as well as songs from my previous albums, and it would be lovely to have something for the audience- an album to take home! I'll also be doing one or two concerts with my full band!

(below is a sneak peak at some of the tunes on the album...i left off a few)


'Two Dangers' features resophonic guitars, banjos, burnished horns, spooky musical saws, violins, creaky boards and dusty boots, influenced by Appalachian mountain music and a touch of '50s romance…a refuge for broken hearts and lonely nights, music to accompany a vision of old abandoned wooden houses, tattered and torn curtains flapping in the humid breeze, the feelings of pining for a lover, sitting on the rickety verandah, singing to the sunset on hot dry days and star clad nights...

Concerts in Australia April/ May 2014

I have asked for the minimal amount to get the album made up in the most beautiful way i can. The funds will be used to press/ manufacture the album- a digipack- 6 panels with 8 page booklet of lyrics and artwork. This amount will make 500 albums.
The pressing costs $1700, and the remaining money will be used for
costs incurred with additional artwork costs and presenting a master of the music with additional tracks.

There are no obstacles that i can foresee! Everything is ready to go!