As a young fella I had hopeful dreams of becoming a singer-songwriter. Over 25 years ago, I sent a demo tape to a record company after recording a few songs on a 4 track with an acoustic guitar, drum machine and synth. I got a letter back asking if they could come and see me play at a gig. I wasn’t doing gigs, I’d never done a gig, very few people had ever heard my music. I didn’t have the confidence to go for it and I never replied. I spent the next couple of decades or so building a career in technology and providing for my family. My music was always there in the distant background but I hardly even played my songs to my wife and kids. And then when covid hit, I decided to try again, dust off some of those old songs and write some new ones. I recorded a demo of a song I wrote early in lockdown called ‘Long Way Round’ and thought I’d have a go and put it out on Spotify. You can hear it here . This was one of ten songs I'd written that I thought could work as an album. I had rough demos of everything, but it was obvious if I was going to do this properly I needed some help.