Linear time has no place in music. I find myself trying to iron out my brain like a map, to show what started where, I could spend forever writing notes in the margins, notes to self, finding archaeological artifacts, layers of soil and magic, the strata of love, sorrow and joy in relation to time, all that goes into the architecture of any particular song.
What has kept me alive is a feral invincibility, barrelling through life, propelled magnetically as in a flying dream that won’t allow for time to get hold of my ankles and catch up with me. Grief had me say yes to life, to embrace and taste and devour. I know life to be as pointless and as meaningful as I can make it. I wanted to write some of this into a dream, a confluence of meaning and feeling.
The Ground Above.
Repost @chrisclunn Beth Orton ,Norfolk , 15/1/1998. Press session for Heavenly records. Great weekend spent with Beth in her manor. Beth has a new album coming out in June 2026.
I can think of no better way to introduce some of the musicians who worked on my upcoming record than by way of this live session directed by Iain and Jane Pollard and Joseph Lynn. In February of this year, we piled into Fish Factory Studios in Willesden and recreated a live recording of Waiting. Fish Factory was where the initial sessions for the record started, and Waiting was the first song I played Chris Vatalaro, Tom Herbert, Dave Okumu and Sam Beste on our first day of recording. The love I felt in the room for them and from them throughout was a rare connection. The track and the song went on further adventures over the coming year and to meet up again and reinhabit some of the changes, the magic that Christos Stylianides brought to the track being among the highlights, was a homecoming. This moment being captured through the wonder that is Jane and Iain and Joseph and their team was a beautiful dream. Thank you to everyone involved.
Bass: Tom Herbert
Acoustic guitar: Sam Amidon
Electric guitar: Dave Okumu
Drums: Chris Vatalero
Trumpet: Christos Stylianides
Upright piano: Sam Beste
Directed by Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard and Joseph Lynn @iainandjane@joelynntw
Cinematography by Alex Barber, Nick Peel and Joseph Lynn
Assistant camera and focus pullers: Jack Hayter & Billy Haverston
Produced by Zoe Flower
Edited by Olly Stothert
Grading at Dirty Looks
Filmed & recorded at The Fish Factory with thanks to Antonio Feola
Engineer: Dilip Harris
Studio assistant: Harry Fetherstonhaugh
Sound mix by Matt Wiggins
Gaffer and sound assistant: Biscuit
DIT: Rory Nichols
Runners: Alfie Wright & Sonny Kennedy-Brown
Hair & make up for Beth Orton: Anna Paolozzi
Filming equipment via XO Rental
I had the honour of speaking about the greatness of Paul Simon for the New York Times’ 30 Greatest American Songwriters feature. Read via link in story !
@nytimes@paulsimonofficial
🎠 💫⚡️Psyche Soul 💫⚡️🚀
Pre sale for US and UK tours starts now! 🏃♂️
Link in bio ✨✨✨
15 Sep 2026 — Washington, DC — The Miracle Theatre
16 Sep 2026 — Philadelphia, PA — Baby Grand
18 Sep 2026 — New York, NY — Le Poisson Rouge
19 Sep 2026 — Somerville, MA — Crystal Ballroom (Somerville Theatre)
20 Sep 2026 — Turners Falls, MA — Shea Theater
22 Sep 2026 — Toronto, ON — The Concert Hall
23 Sep 2026 — Detroit, MI — El Club
24 Sep 2026 — Chicago, IL — Old Town School of Folk Music (Maurer Hall)
26 Sep 2026 — Minneapolis, MN — Parkway Theater
28 Sep 2026 — Los Angeles, CA — Troubadour
30 Sep 2026 — San Francisco, CA — Great American Music Hall
2 Oct 2026 — Portland, OR — The Old Church
3 Oct 2026 — Seattle, WA — Washington Hall
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23–26 July — Suffolk, UK — Latitude Festival
12 Oct 2026 — Brighton, UK — Concorde 2
13 Oct 2026 — Manchester, UK — Stoller Hall
14 Oct 2026 — Nottingham, UK — Rescue Rooms
16 Oct 2026 — Leeds, UK — Howard Assembly Room
17 Oct 2026 — Glasgow, UK — St. Luke’s
19 Oct 2026 — Bristol, UK — Trinity Centre
21 Oct 2026 — Norwich, UK — Arts Centre
22 Oct 2026 — London, UK — Alexandra Palace Theatre
My brand new album ‘The Ground Above’ is set for release on the 26th June 2026 ♥️🫀♥️
“Waiting” is out today 🫀♥️🫀
UK & US tour just announced ♥️ You can sign up to my mailing list for pre-sale access from this Wednesday ♥️ Where you can get ordering your CD’s and vinyl too! General sale begins Friday 24th, 10am local time. ♥️🫀♥️🫀♥️🫀♥️♥️
Album cover photography @kasiawozniak ♥️
Tour artwork photography @joelynntw 🫀
Finally and phew!! I am making my way to Scotland!!! 🎡 I will be joined by the wonders that are Sam Amidon and Chris Vatalaro. Sam and Chris and I will also be playing @doolin_arts folk festival.
🗼Sign up to my mailing list for more announcements incoming 🎠 link in bio 🎡
I want to talk more about the experiences of the work I’m involved in making so I am starting a newsletter. I am hoping to find a place for writing that exists beyond my songs; somewhere behind the scenes – literally and otherwise. I’ve not done anything quite so revealing before without it getting deleted along the way. This one will be mine and I am excited to connect with a past life I’ve tried very hard to go into hiding from and the new one my music is pulling me ever deeper into.
If you would like to sign up to “Notes in the Margins,” my first outing will be next Thursday 16th April. Link in bio..
Video directed by @imogen__knight__moves__ and @joelynntw 🤍🤍
