Priory School Visit

At the end of May, my good friend Chris Ricketts invited me to Priory School to give four presentations about The Songs You’ve Never Heard to his Music and English students. This is the first time I’ve been in an actual real life school in, oh let’s just say, 20 years or so… Needless to say I was VERY VERY NERVOUS!!

However, the students were so lovely and welcoming so I had nothing to worry about! I spoke to Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 and another Year 8 class, and even performed And What? and Firework Display live and acoustic to each class! This was the first time I had performed these songs in front of an audience and it was amazing to share them and get the student’s reactions. Some of them were even singing along with me by the final chorus!

As well as doing a book reading, I talked a lot about music and my songwriting background and got everyone to share their Top 3 Current Favourite songs with me. Priory School has IMPECCABLE taste! I had plenty of musical questions after each class from budding songwriters, and one student was very impressed I loved Orla Gartland as much as she did!

It has been such a confidence boost to start my journey with school visits and by the fourth presentation, I was definitely on a roll! Thanks so much for having me Chris and for being my guitarist for the morning. Hopefully the first of many successful book events to come! :)