A week ago I played at Gone Awol, a local coffee shop, which does live music each Friday! I’m sitting here again, this time listening to a songwriter by the name of Dominic, picking some sweet folk pop tunes!

Last night I played a support set for Mike, an exceptional Melbourne blues guitarist. The room was small, but the vibe was big! I’ve only really been playing live for two months so far, yet the people I’ve met in that brief amount of time has been amazing! I’m not sure I could give it up!
I have a few gigs in the coming months, and I have a list of 15 or so venues to make contact with still to suss out any potential!

Auditions for Australia’s Got Talent are only a month away, so i’m working on something extra special for that! If I don’t get through at least I’ll have some new tunes! For the last few months, which is really the start of my music year, I’ve been practicing 4+hrs a day, and while that was a chore at first, if I don’t play that much nowadays I don’t feel right!!
As i type this out I’m just watching meals being brought out to people around me, and wow they look good!! There’s some amazing cafes I’m discovering through this musical quest:P
Speaking of amazing food I’m playing tomorrow at the Village Cafe from 11am till 2pm.

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of instrumental sets, because I still find vocals a struggle, but I’ve had enough people ask me to sing again to make me reconsider and start working on it again. It’s all part of growing as a musician I guess!
I may have been a little hasty saying I’m now making a living from music; for a week I certainly was, but I’m getting there!

I’ve been playing at Church most weeks now! I’d really like to do an acoustic service with covers of songs like In Christ Alone, to move outside the box in a way, and I’m hopeful one day it will happen, but it is a bit hard to get away with something as different as that in a large church.
I believe, as many do, that Christianity is not a religion but a faith. Religion being a set of rules and rituals that if followed demand the favor of God. Faith being the realization that no deed can add too or diminish from what Jesus has accomplished on The Cross. This is a great freedom, yet in this freedom I find I don’t pray enough, I don’t read my Bible enough and I don’t consider God enough. But I know I’m not alone in this, and it’s then when I think God is Big, I am Small.

I’m going to blame this extra long post on the coffee…
I’m not sure quite how it happened, but I’m consuming more caffeine now that all my precious years combined. Time for an ice tea detox!

I’m started working on a guitar cover of a pretty well known song I’ve been wanting to do for a while, so in a week or two I’ll post a video of that:D it’s still top secret at the moment:P

If anyone reading this plays a super awesome game called Magicka, send me a message! I’ve been looking for someone to play with!

To finish up I’ll list a few upcoming gigs, the ones I can remember at least without my diary!

October 1st - Village Cafe 11am till 2pm
October 2nd - republic bar @ 8pmish, this may or may not happen though!
October 3rd - Irish Murphys 8pm
October 8th - Village Cafe 10am
- Oliebollen festival 11:30am
October12th - Irish Murphys 8pm
October 15th - Village Cafe 11am - 2pm
October 16th - Good Life Festival

Live & Love
Alan