The best month of the year is here!

As a songwriter with ADHD, I always struggle to put enough pressure on myself to sit down and write songs. After all, there is no real deadline so I can always tell…

Admit it, you thought I had vanished. Well, I more or less did for a while but here was are at the start of Summer 2024 and I am raring to go. 

I am delighted to be playing a couple…

I am SO EXCITED about the coming summer. So far I will be performing at no less than FOUR festivals around the country. 

First in June, I'll be at the Out & Wild Festival in Lawrenny, Wales. I played…

I am fabulously pleased to have been given a weekly slot at Cardiff's newest Irish pub, Temple Bar on the High Street in Cardiff. 

Temple Bar is supporting live music by having music on every single night of the week…

In spite of everyone knowing it is a disaster, the World Cup has started in Qatar. Of course this is wrong. However, the one positive thing is that Wales has managed to qualify and so for the first time since...well…

When I played at the Green Gathering Festival in August this year, my friend Outi Condit was kind enough to record my whole set. Over the coming weeks, I will be posting individual videos of the songs, both here and…

Three months ago, I accidentally volunteered to run an open mic in Swansea. "There are so many already" I hear you say. And you would be right. But there isn't one like this one. 

The Swansea Songwriter Sessions are for…

When playing at the Out & Wild Festival last month, I was approached by a lady from The Green Gathering Festival. Asking me if I wanted to play the festival in August? Do I? Hell Yeah! Green Gathering is a…

What a lovely weekend this was. On Saturday I welcomed my parents (who are on an epic 6 week camping holiday around South Wales) and they joined me at my first gig of the weekend. Looking out over Swansea Bay…

Summer is finally here and I have been busy. 

Just back from playing the amazing Out & Wild Festival in Lawrenny. What a great new addition to the festival circuit. I played a "skilfully shambolic" singalong hour with the lovely…

A great little poem has been doing the rounds on Facebook recently. It is called Give a Boo by Joshua Seigal. I asked him for permission to put some music to it and here is the result.  You should…

My favourite month of the year is February. It is February Album Writing Month. The idea is to challenge yourself to write 14 songs in 28 days. 14 songs is enough for an album plus a couple of spares…

I have released a new track. It is an old song (well, from 2020) that I have managed to record. If you like it, feel free to download it from Bandcamp or stream it on Spotify. More importantly, if you…

Things are opening up again and the first batch of gigs in Swansea has arrived.  20th June I will play at The Railway Inn in Killay and then on 3rd July at 7pm, I have the honour of playing at…

I'm very happy with the release of a new track, called "Until Then. I wrote the track in collaboration with Kristian Borresen for February Album Writing Month (FAWM). The idea behind FAWM is that you write (at least) 14 songs…

"What Took you So Long" is the highly anticipated and energetic debut single by Swansea-based singer/songwriter Marieke (Pronounced: MahREEkuh) Vink. A break-up song with a difference, What Took you So Long takes a humourous look at the end of a…

Things are coming along nicely in the studio. Ash and Rebecca are working hard on the last bits of production for my debut single "What Took you So Long". It is going to be an absolute belter, trust me. 

I…

Sometimes you hear a song and you just WISH you had written it yourself. That's what I felt when I first heard "Both Our Lives". Written by Stephen Tanner and first recorded by his band Stephen Tanner and The Runaways…

Northamptonshire duo Tu-Kay & Ryan have invited a whole bunch of their music friends to contribute to a basic track they had recorded. Everyone recorded their own contribution in their home studio and Ash and Rebecca expertly blended it into…