Journal
Notes from the in-between.
Studio sessions, road stories, and the bits that don't fit on a track. Updated whenever there's something worth saying.
3 May 2026
New episode: Welcome To My Website
New podcast episode — Welcome To My Website. A welcome message from Kayleigh Merez.
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3 May 2026
New episode: Notes from a Wet Wednesday
New podcast episode — Notes from a Wet Wednesday. Episode 1. The introduction. Who I am, what the catalogue looks like so far, the hoodie, the rain, the late nights, and what's coming next. Recorded in Penzance with the windows…
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2 May 2026
Welcome to the journal
A little corner for thoughts between the tracks — studio notes, road stories, and whatever else lands.
Read →16 March 2026
The green room quiet
There is a particular kind of quiet that lives in a green room before a show. I have come to depend on it.
Read →9 March 2026
Why I keep the demos
My demos folder is a graveyard, but I never delete it. The ghosts in there are too useful.
Read →2 March 2026
Covers that taught me
Every cover I have ever played taught me something I could not have learned from writing.
Read →23 February 2026
Melody before meaning
I almost always find the melody before I know what the song is about, and that order matters more than I expected.
Read →16 February 2026
The bridge problem
Bridges are the part of a song where I most often get in my own way.
Read →9 February 2026
Recording at home
My home setup is small and slightly held together with tape, and most of my favourite vocals were recorded there.
Read →2 February 2026
Learning to leave space
For a long time I filled every bar of every song. Learning to leave a hole has been the slowest lesson of all.
Read →26 January 2026
Lyrics I almost deleted
Some of the lines I am proudest of were one keystroke away from being thrown out.
Read →19 January 2026
The songs I play for no one
There is a small set of songs I never play live and never put out. They are the ones I keep just for me.
Read →12 January 2026
On stage fright
Stage fright never fully leaves. I have just learned to walk on stage with it instead of waiting for it to go.
Read →5 January 2026
Small rooms, big nights
Some of my biggest nights have happened in the smallest rooms, and that order keeps surprising me.
Read →29 December 2025
What the band taught me
Playing with a band changes the way I write, even when the song was meant to be played alone.
Read →22 December 2025
Mixing day
Mixing day is the day a song stops being mine and starts being itself.
Read →15 December 2025
The walk home after a gig
My favourite part of any show is not the show. It is the walk home afterwards, with the night cooling around me and my ears still ringing.
Read →8 December 2025
Voice memos at 3am
My voice memos folder is a portrait of who I am at three in the morning, and I would not trade it for anything.
Read →1 December 2025
The album I cannot write yet
There is an album waiting for me that I am not ready to make. I think about it almost every day.
Read →24 November 2025
Why I still rehearse
Rehearsal is not about getting the songs right. It is about earning the freedom to play them wrong.
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