Every month I pick a theme and create a short series of short films based around it. They could be anything from Poetry to Potpourri, but all made with the goal of furhter exploring a current interest of mine, and sharing that with you.
Here is the full collection of them so far, newest to oldest. Hope you enjoy!
March 2025 - Irish Trad
March heralds the wonderful St. Paddys day, so I decided to go back to my roots and write some trad tunes on the fiddle. I wasn't really prepared for the absolute joy that it was to write these tunes, and for the comfort it was to pick up an instrument that i've carried with me all my life.
Although I'm happy with the compositions, the short videos weren't up to my normal standard, so I called in the big guns, namely Kate Byrne and Thomas Kerr, to form a lil ceili band with me for an hour, and this was the result!
February 2025 - Norman MacCaig
I moved over to scotland at the start of the year, and prompted by that move I asked a friend of mine for some scottish poet recommendations. Their response was an Edinburgh-based man called Norman MacCaig, a poet I had never even remotely heard of, but one who proceeded to shock me with the electric brilliance of his work.
The videos in this one are visualisers of Normans poems, aided by the wonderful reading performances provided by Thomas Kerr and Gracie Davie.
January 2025 - Covers
To kick the project off, I wanted to look back on the year before and perform some of the songs that I had fallen in love with during those 12 months.
These were all filmed during an interesting time in Glasgow for weather, beginning the year in -7 degree weather, and storm Eowyn ripping through the UK. All those relentless natural phenomena paired with a relentless DIY approach made for a curiously creative buzz behind the camera.