Today last year...

'Today' the song I wrote and sang to my wife at our wedding reception, which was recorded in the Autumn of 2013 was released on this day a year ago. I was very nervous about it because no-one had really heard anything I had done in music for a long time or in fact, ever! I was really happy that people were very supportive and seemed to like the song, which gave me the confidence to work on some more. Talking about new material, the song I had said I had completed in my last post, wasn't in fact quite finished as I'd thought. There were some elements I wanted to correct and I ended up doing 33 revisions and recalls in the end! I am working on the accompying songs, (which are more upbeat than HM), although I will not be able to complete them in my little studio room here in the Surrey Hills as we are packing up and moving to Somerset this summer.

Here is a reminder of 'Today' - have a great rest of the bank holiday!

https://stevehorne1.bandcamp.com/track/today

CD's

You will be able to buy 'Harvest Moon' as a 'physical CD' from 2nd March on Bandcamp and '99 Degrees Fahrenheit' from 9th March. They are in standard jewel cases, with 4 panel booklet w/glossy outer, 'vinyl look' CDR with centre label. Cost is £5 + £1.99 shipping/p&p.

'What I Did on My Holidays'

Little bit of an update from me;

Firstly, thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of my efforts in music. I really appreciate all the positive comments, likes and shares.

Both ‘Harvest Moon’ and ’99 Degrees Fahrenheit’ will be getting a ‘physical release’ as well as being available via download. They will come in standard jewel cases, with gloss inlay cards and booklet with a ‘vinyl’ look CD-R with printed label. More details on how to buy soon.

After a couple of months break, I spent the summer recording, (anyone who knows me well will know that when I am left to my own devices, I will pretty much always be found in my back room ‘studio’ tinkering and occasionally pottering), drafting out some ideas for songs – drawing in some old songs that had yet to recorded and improvising some music from scratch. In more than one case, what I started with mutated into something completely different and often something I would not have imagined writing had I sat down with an acoustic guitar and written in the traditional way. The sound is very different from ‘Harvest Moon’ (and ‘99 Degrees Fahrenheit’) , but I hope it won’t take four and a half years to finish like Harvest Moon! I hope to show snippets of the recording as I go along via the website.

I will try and update the website every month from now on as I am aware I haven’t touched it since September last year!