Links
FUN STUFF
- iMDB - see what films I like
- Last.fm - see what music I’m listening to
- ListGeeks - making lists is fun
- Luke Leighfield Runs - sometimes I run for charity
- Merchography - all of my t-shirt designs EVER
- Spotify - a playlist of some of my favourite songs
FRIENDS WHO HELP ME
- Duncan Howsley made this website, and also takes photos and shoots videos
- Tom Price takes most of my photos
- Matt Withers designs a lot of my merch
- Secretly Swedish also designs some of my merch
- twoducksdisco is another great designer
- Nicholas Stevenson designed the cover of my split EP with Jose Vanders
- Got Got Need Records is the record label that I run
- Get A Grip print my merch in an ethical, eco-friendly way
- The Tour Jacket Co. make awesome jackets
FRIENDS MAKING MUSIC
- Atlum Schema - weird (but wonderful) experimental pop
- Drawings - brilliant rock music, Matt played guitar on my new album
- Failsafe - alternative, melodic, aggressive rock
- Flight Brigade - utterly gorgeous folk-pop
- Futures - criminally well-written pop-rock
- Jose Vanders - singer-songwriter piano-pop, in the vein of Regina Spektor
- Kino Feuer - bleepy, beautiful, skewed pop
- Lee Mitchell - Irish singer-songwriter, folk-pop
- Nicholas Stevenson - beautiful storytelling singer-songwriter
- RAMS’ Pocket Radio - utterly incredible piano-rock
- Sam Isaac - defunct, but brilliant, indie-pop
- Tellison - intelligent pop-rock, I played keys on their latest album
- The Candle Thieves - quirky, catchy keyboard-pop
- The Xcerts - loud Scottish rock music
FAVOURITE BANDS
- Ben Folds - my favourite artist of all time, piano pop
- Blessed By A Broken Heart - Christian power metal
- Copeland - underrated and now-defunct indie rock
- Foy Vance - incredible Irish singer-songwriter
- Fun. - pop that sounds like it should be in a musical
- Jack’s Mannequin - piano rock
- Jimmy Eat World - rock music
- Katy Perry - better than any other pop music
- Kirk Franklin - gospel that makes you feel like you can do anything
- Mates of State - husband/wife organ/drums duo
- Noah & The Whale - formerly fragile folk, now exuberant indie-pop
- Olafur Arnalds - beautiful neo-classical minimalism
- Queen - the greatest band of all time (in my opinion)
- Relient K - pop-punk, but not at all rubbish
- Sara Bareilles - really great piano pop
- Say Anything - weird and excellent rock music
- Sigur Ros - the soundtrack to heaven (probably)
- The Rocket Summer - relentlessly upbeat, positive pop rock
- Tyler James - singer-songwriter, cuts to the soul
- Weezer - the second greatest rock band of all time, after Queen
WEBSITES THAT I LIKE
- Daytum - collect and categorise your everyday data
- Donald Miller - one of my favourite bloggers
- GOOD - what the title suggests
- I Am Second - discovering your purpose
- Relevant - God, life and progressive culture
- TED - riveting talks by remarkable people
- Zen Habits - a blog about taking life slowly
CHARITIES THAT I SUPPORT
