2025 has been a year of recalibration.
My live monthly residency ‘Coyote Club’ provides a platform to make whatever noise I want, whilst inviting artists I admire to share the space and build a communal creative hub set against the backdrop of the legendary Elmer’s Arms. Sincere gratitude, and respect to Elmer and Laurie for their unwavering support to new artists, new sounds and new ideas. Bristol would be a lesser place without you.
The Crown Electric has gone from strength to strength, honing our live sound through playing on stages of all shapes and sizes across the country. We have a special hometown show for 2026 which will be announced shortly. Watch this space..
However the main focus for the past 12 months has been writing the new album. For this I have had to take a backseat from social media and all the noise that comes with it. A world that feasts on infinite content at an exponentially accelerative pace. It is a challenge not to be swept up in the white noise and chaos of it all.
In order to be fully immersed in creativity I have had to switch off, so I can tune in. To try to make sense of the world we live in. This has been vital in order to create something that has meaning and depth.
To slow down, take stock, and focus, in an attempt to create a body of work, a collection of songs, that leans inward: to seek, to find, and then speak MY truth. These new songs are the most personal I’ve ever written.
I’m now hearing them start to take shape as demos, playing them with a talented bunch of musicians around me who I’m privileged to call my friends. There’s now a studio booked in 2026, and pretty soon you will hear them, too…
My sincere thanks to everyone who has, once again, supported me this year. Everyone who has bought a ticket or bought an album. To everyone who has discovered my music for the first time in 2025, via word of mouth or just stumbling across it, as we do sometimes – I hope you stay for the ride.
In a world of ever increasing AI I hope you share my overriding feeling that we need human interaction and communal experiences more than ever. Music lives in the small rooms we share together, close enough to see the whites of each other’s eyes. Sharing a human experience. Feeling SOMETHING.
Much, much more of this coming your way in 2026..
Read this quote by Jeff Tweedy recently and it rang out loud.. “We have a choice – to be on the side of creation, or surrender to the powers that destroy”.
See you on the other side…AL…
