The title track of the next XUK album is recorded and although I'm not sure if it'll be finished in 2018 I'm going to try my best (without rushing it).

"U" took fifteen months to complete - from the first recording in September 2016 to it's release in December 207. Sinc...

Preamble

When the album went on sale, I announced I'd post something about a song from U  every time five new albums were sold. But I wasn't able to keep up after the first two songs. So here's one big blog for all the songs - including something about the genesis of th...

When "U" is released on iTunes and CDBaby at the beginning of December.

So, I have hidden messages in this final track on the album. It's a strange track but hopefully you'll think it's a fitting coda to the album - a sort of palate cleanser. Originally I was hoping the...

XUK's entries for the 16th Annual Independent Music Awards are submitted!

"U" is entered in the Album of the Year category. "Tomorrow / Today" and "No More Mister Night Sky" are in the Song of the Year category. "The Show" is entered in the "Social Action Song of the Ye...

When we released XUK's debut album "Love Hits ...like a cricket bat-out-of-hell" I had unrealistically high hopes for it. I had hoped that I might at least recoup what it cost me to put it out and that I'd make enough to pay all the people who helped me promote it by p...

Last night I was playing with a weird instrumental track that I'd put to one side because I previously thought I couldn't make a song out of it. I came up with a lyric and recorded a "guide vocal". I'll be finishing it off tonight with some (hopefully) more polished vo...

Thanks to my friends and some longtime XUK fans across the world who've encouraged me during the process so far.

"U" is almost here!

Over the last couple of weeks I've been working very hard on finalizing the arrangements and mixing of the U songs. It's getting really cl...