By the time we laid our hands on the £6 gourmet loaf of bread things had started to fall into place though. I was soon lying on the floor staring up at a trapdoor, flailing my arms and legs with an industrial fan in my face whilst listening to Arcade Fire – something I’ve dreamed of since I was a young boy.

As soon as we’re done retouching the image to make me look cool I’ll show you what we ended up with!

In the meantime please show your appreciation for the wonderful lady behind the lens – Alyssa Boni – she is so talented.

MORLEY OUT

Other things, though marginally less precise, are pretty bankably likely events – I’m referring of course to our monthly residency at the world famous Ronnie Scotts club.

Our next performance there is just days away now – This Tuesday 17th August. Full details are on the facebook group but the gist of it is that doors are at 7ish, we’re on at 9ish and it costs a fiver if you print off this flyer. £7 if you don’t.

Incidentally, so much to do I may have to not sleep an awful lot this week. Instead I could just make comedy hnggg-phewwww fake snoring noises like you did when you were trying to trick your parents into thinking you were asleep when in fact you weren’t.

Many thanks to those of you who have waited a while to get your hands on the record. There’s a little longer to wait I’m afraid, but as a compromise I’m really keen to share some tracks with you.

Freddie Laid The Smack Down is about being 11, I Saw Something is about being in the partial sunshine and features my dear friend Tom McQ. Let me know what you think! There’s a comment thing below, or bless’d facebook and suchlike.

Do come to Ronnie Scotts if you can on the 20th July, or any others on the Live Dates page. We’re only just getting started with this and I think it’ll all be well worth waiting for.

x

Sorry it’s taking so long… I can’t release it until we’ve had a thousand meetings about who’s involved and in charge of what, sorting out tours and gigs, filming videos, shooting cover art…. it doesn’t seem to end.

When it’s time though it’ll mean everything’s done properly – well exciting!

In the meantime all I can do is keep smashing it at Ronnie Scotts every month with my kick-ass band (next one’s on the 20th July) and building it all up. I’ve got four different video directors on the case, already shot some cover art ideas, and getting loads of help with talking to labels, lawyers, agencies and so on.

As soon as it all starts kicking in the first place to look will be here, so thanks for keeping in touch.

Right I’m off to do a little tour of ireland playing guitar for an artist called Hermione Hennessy. We’re supporting Leona Lewis for four dates at the o2 and the oddessy. Love it!

x

Plenty of you had planned to come along tomorrow, and I was really hesitant about cancelling, plus it’s such late notice.

In the end though, I figured it was something I just have to do, especially as I’m at Ronnie Scotts bar every month. I really hope you understand and would still come along another night.

This is the first time I’ve really pulled a gig – I hate it and i’m sorry. Promise I’ll try extra hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Thanks so much for all your support and hope to see you again soon!
LOADS of love!
jake x

Co-producer Phill Brown (who has worked on classic albums before) rates it as a classic album, the whole team are over the moon and we’ve already had calls from record labels before we’ve even approached any.

Current plan is to do some single releases leading up to an album launch later in the year but still TBC. Can’t wait to do album covers and video shoots! Already getting started on those.

If you’re interested in what mastering is about, take a look at this.

So thrilled with the result of last week’s album mix sessions. Phill Brown absolutely nailed it behind the desk! Massive thanks also to Calum MacColl for working his arrangement / edit magic on everything – I really hit the jackpot with producers on this one.

Feel rather elated really – I keep thinking how each noise on the record was played by someone at some stage, and the sum total of all those noises played by all these people in all these moments just feels enormous.

Right! back to the present and I’ve got a gig to head off to – the first night of my Ronnie Scotts Residency. Rehearsals for it at the weekend went really well so can’t wait for it x

SO! we carried out all manner of ancient sacred rituals to find out when the stars would align again in glorious harmony, and the answer was NEXT WEEK. I’m going to scoot off for a quick week of session work in Ireland, then we’ll get this bird into the air, flying like an eagle with blue skies to roam and love in its heart and a song in its beak.

The best bit however was probably when her crew loaded all of our gear into their van and almost drove to manchester with it…

Cool night tho! I wonder what Simon would have made of our performance?

I think it’s more similar to ketchup in a glass bottle – hard to get going, then everything comes out in huge unstoppable waves, then it takes ages to get the last bit.

Personally I think it’s been the most rewarding and exciting thing I’ve ever done, and I’m just stunned by the results. It’s easily the best music I’ve ever written, performed by the best musicians I’ve known, and brought to life by two of the best engineers / producers in the business.

Can’t wait to show you all!