Super excited to share a new song release by Hong Kong artist Steven - Over You was co-written with my super talented friend Mayu Wakisaka and producer Yip Yu. Check out the cool and sultry music video below (which totally makes me want to do late night karaoke):
It was so much fun to channel our mutual love of Carly Rae Jepsen with this one! Good luck with the release Steven, fingers crossed for a great reaction from the fans!
You Better Know (written with the incredibly talented Kanata Okajima and Pontus Persson) is the K-Pop cut that just keeps on giving! This track has become a solid fan favourite and has been performed on Red Velvet’s new promo concert video on Youtube - You Better Know starts at 10.54:
Thank you so much to all the beautiful Red Velvet fans who have kept this song alive after all these years! So proud to be part of this amazing video and wishing our Queens all the best with their new album release!!
I am excited to announce I am releasing my first solo song for many years - “Misunderstood (Acoustic)” which I recorded earlier this year at Mayfield Studios with the very talented Matt Brook.
This is a track that I wrote a while back about being a very hyper-sensitive person and how that can affect the relationships around me. Sometimes having such big feelings can be both a blessing and a curse, as the highs are very high, but the lows can be very low. I think a lot of creative people can relate to this and will hopefully feel seen in this song.
Although this is a biographical track, I actually found it fit perfectly with the character of Prentice in my YA novel “One Song Wonder” that my agent is currently pitching out to publishers. I dare not say too much until someone takes on the book, but Prentice is the father of our teenage leading lady and quite a difficult guy, although his heart is always in the right place. I guess I must be getting old now I’m connecting more with the parents than the teenagers of my books! 😂 But my dream is to release an album of new tracks to accompany this story in the future… fingers crossed! Until then, please do enjoy this little sneak peek of the project which will be out on all streaming services on December 15th.
Excited to share a brand new J-Pop release that just launched today! Bye Honey is the B-Side for the new single by Miru Shiroma, former member of idol group NMB48.
The track (formerly titled 'Fast & Furious') is a super sassy girl power anthem and was co-written with Ken Harada, Lorenzo Cosi and Peter Boyes - we actually wrote this many years ago so it's amazing to know great songs will find the right home in the end!
Thank you so much Ken and DWB Music for the hard work in securing this placement! Wishing the beautiful and talented Miru Shiroma the best of luck with her solo career. Please check out the song on Spotify and iTunes!
IT'S LAUNCH DAY!!!!
The Songs You've Never Heard is available NOW from all book shops as both a physical copy and an eBook. To order a copy online please pick a retailer at our official website:
https://www.thesongsyouveneverheard.co.uk/book
OR please do request it from your local book shop! The more people who request the book, the more stores will buy in copies woop!
The accompanying album is also now LIVE! (see below!)
All songs were written by me and Ellie and we have amazing performances from Megan Tuck as Alana and Cathal Murphy as Caspar. (And I perform as Meg!)
We would absolutely love to know your Top 5 favourite songs on the soundtrack!! And if you are able to leave us a review on Goodreads or Amazon that would be so helpful and much appreciated!!
We really hope you love this story and these songs - we worked really hard on this and there were times we didn't know if it would actually happen... but WE NOW OFFICIALLY HAVE A BOOK WITH MUSIC EEEK!!!!
Thank you Sweet Cherry Publishing and Bath Literary Agency for making our dream come true - super excited for all the live events to come!
The second lyric teaser for mine and Ellie’s musical book “The Songs You’ve Never Heard” is now online!
Firework Display is Meg’s song about feeling overlooked by the people in her life, and wishing they would turn around and see her colours. This was such a fun one to write and perform - thank you so much to Jussi Nikula for the amazing production!
The first lyric teaser for The Songs You’ve Never Heard is now online!
Check out the snippet from Second First Impression below:
It has been so enjoyable to perform as our leading lady Meg, and this unrequited love song plays a huge part in the story. More teasers on the way very soon, can’t wait to share the whole album!
I am excited to announce that one of my library songs Never Say Never is available to listen to on Spotify as part of Poke Music’s Broadway album - I often write and record songs for music libraries, but they don’t usually release them as official albums so it’s really cool to be able to share this one!
I wrote this song with Ellie Wyatt and Alyssa Ichinose (whose BEAUTIFUL production was an absolute joy to topline to). I hope you enjoy the song and my Disney Princess style vocal lol! :) Fingers crossed for a placement for this one in the future!
Hey everyone, happy new year!
It’s certainly been a strange old time lately what with Covid and Lockdown 3.0… I hope you are all holding up OK. I feel like last year was a bit of a write-off due to the dire circumstances and I didn’t have much news to report as the majority of projects I have been working on have had to be paused indefinitely!
Although it’s been a tough start to the year, I’m hoping things will pick up again soon and that I’ll have lots more to write about on this news page! And what better way to kick off than by sharing a brand new demo written with my bestie Sazzie.
At the end of last year, she came to me with an amazing idea called “2021”, all about the frustrations of lockdown life and wanting to leave behind restrictions and head into the future. I loved the concept, it feels like it really captures a moment in time and it was great to work on it with her. We are excited to have our friend Jussi on board for production too. In the meantime, check out the demo version on Soundcloud:
I hope you enjoy this raw version of the track, we can’t wait to build it up into a big proper pop song later in the year!
It’s great to be back writing music again and I’m excited to see what seeds will start to bloom in 2021… Take care everyone and will post more soon!
It’s been a little bit of a slow time for news at the moment whilst I’m working on some long-term projects (which I hope to announce very soon!) but something cool I discovered over this lockdown period was that some of my songs can now be found on streaming services! Firstly, the Dutch movie Misfit 2 is available to stream on Netflix featuring the song Bad Habit in the end credits that I co-wrote with the leading lady herself Djamila!
Also, if you have Disney+ then you can now stream Penny On M.A.R.S featuring two of my co-written tracks All For One and Timeless in Season 2.
It’s always such a thrill to hear my songs on the telly and I love that they are now available on such huge platforms, woohoo! If you check them out then please let me know :D
About 4 years ago, I worked on a handful of songs with Kelsey Ellison and Pete Barringer for Kelsey's K-Pop influenced band K-Oh! (Also known as Pixels). Some of these songs got performed at the big YouTuber convention Summer In the City and it was great to see such a big audience dancing and getting excited for them.
Now Kelsey has re-released the song F.I.G.H.T under her solo channel as an anthem of positivity, with the ad revenue each month going towards various causes such as LGBTQ+ charities and BLM.
We first wrote this song around the time Trump was elected and we were feeling so frustrated with the state of the world. We wanted to write an anthem to tell people they aren't alone and that even if they feel like no one is listening, there is a whole army of warriors out there fighting alongside them for justice and equality. "We're gonna fight for love, we'll fight for us baby!"
It means so much to me to see so many people getting involved with the video and spreading awareness to important causes <3 There is also a lyric version of the video if you would like to sing along:
A few years ago I worked on a handful of songs for the amazing J-Pop band FAKY - now they are re-releasing some of their older songs with their brand new line up on the album Re:Wrapped - including two of my co-writes Surrender and Chase Me.
Surrender which I worked on with Kanata Okajima and Sky Adams is an official single with a short promo video - please check it out!
All the songs are available on streaming sites worldwide as of next week - good luck with the re-launch girls, I hope to one day come back to Japan and see you live!
My good friend and fellow singer-songwriter Corinna Jane has recently released a 3-track EP titled Songs For My Mother featuring our co-written song Distant Lights.
We wrote this track together many years ago and Corinna performs it regularly in her live sets - however the production has now had a serious revamp thanks to Italian producer Francesco.
It is an honour for the song to be included on this beautiful collection in tribute to Corinna’s mother - find the EP on Spotify and iTunes now!
It’s always lovely to start the new year with release news! I recently discovered that OH MY GIRL have released a few different bundles of tracks in Japan this week, one of which includes the song “Shower” that I wrote with Steven Lee and Willie Weeks.
This is the third time this track has been released by the band and I’m so happy to see it continue to find new audiences. I hope the Japanese public will enjoy it!
Today is the release of the song Bad Habit which I co-wrote with Youtuber Djamila. I absolutely love this song, it came together so organically on guitar during a Skype session and we spent a long time making sure the lyrics really told a story. I have loved working together, Djamila is so incredibly talented and a lovely person, plus we have made this happen completely indie so I’m really proud of what we have achieved!
You can stream or buy the song right now so please do check it out - and thank you to Djamila’s followers who have already watched the Instagram promo over 10k times!
LYRIC VIDEO ALSO NOW ONLINE:
The official soundtrack for Season 2 of Penny On M.A.R.S is now available to download and stream on all music platforms! I worked on 2 songs for this season of the show - “All For One” and “Timeless”.
It is still a dream come true to have had songs placed on a Disney show and something I will always treasure. Thank you so much Enrico Kikko Palmosi for the co-write and the amazing opportunity!
Listen to All For One below!
I now have a Songwriting Showreel online featuring all my major cuts and placements from the last few years - it feels like such an achievement to see them all together in one place! Looking forward to getting this out there to people and hopefully finding some new work from it. Thank you to all the co-writers, producers and song pitchers who made these placements possible and thank you Matthew Harrison for putting the showreel together for me. I'd love to know what people think! :D
This week sees the release of the first full-length album by K-Pop band OH MY GIRL. “The Fifth Season” features Shower as Track 2 which is a song I worked on with Steven Lee and Willie Weeks.
The girls have been performing the song across TV stations in Korea as part of their album promotion and Steven who is in Seoul at the moment says he can hear “Shower” being played on the streets and in shops everywhere he goes! It’s been so lovely to be involved with this release and to also hear all my ad-libs in the track exactly as I wrote them! Watch one of the TV performances below:
