Home

Just recently I've started thinking about the 4th album.

For a few years now a lot of my songs have been inspired by the theme of 'Home.'

Having left Australia when I was 19 with a backpack and a wish to see the world, I now find myself, 10 years on, living in England- my home away from home. But a part of me still feels I'm traveling and it makes me wonder, will this feeling always remain?

So, I've decided to dedicate the next album to the concept of Home.

There are 3 parts in my mind.

The first is set in Australia and explores childhood innocence, growing up in Western Australia- my motherland, inherited loss, Indigenous Australian history of colonisation and emigration.

The second is set on a path. It's the place that exists between two points, the journey, a home in itself for life's nomads.

The third is set in England and explores adulthood, experience, the decision to make home away from home. It also explores wider themes of exile and asylum.

At the minute I'm reading books that inform and inspire part 1.

Here are a few of them...

‘It’s still in my heart, this is my country’ (South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council) by John Host with Chris Owen

'Navigatio' by Alison Croggon

‘Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience’ by William Blake

‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

This poem of Stevenson's below sparked a childhood memory of mine (and subsequently a song). The memory: sneaking out of my window late one night when the moon was full, to the paddock where horses were sleeping.