I've always been a Daddy's girl....
My mum is absolutely brilliant and I love her more than words can say, but when I was growing up, it was always me and my dad who went off together on little adventures. He was my hero and I truly believed that he could do anything. 

I lost my dad to Cancer last year, exactly one week and one day after his 76th birthday. Even though I had known for some time that it was coming, when it actually happened I was totally devastated.

My dad was brave, kind, uncomplaining and a true gentleman right up until the very end.
I miss him each and every day. He's always in my thoughts and I still can't quite believe that he's gone - but memories are strange things, they can be so vivid that sometimes its as though he's still here, and a place, sound, sight or smell instantly makes me feel as though I'm travelling back in time.

Father's Day seemed to be a fitting day to release this track. I hope he would have liked it.

Love you always Dad.

​xx

It feels like such a long time again since we've posted anything new. Life has thrown some hugely challenging experiences in our direction over the past months which put life on hold for a while. But finally, we have something new to release.

My Second Face is a song that pretty much sums up the inner turmoil that I often feel between the person that I feel that I am supposed to be and the secret part of me that is hidden deep inside.

Hope you like it.

Life can throw some difficult obstacles in your path, and often seems to have a habit of making you deal with issues you really don't feel quite ready to deal with. Winter is a song that I wrote a short while back, and was born because of the growing realisation that certain people who have always been a hugely important part of my life are getting older, their health is deteriorating and that they won't be around for ever. 

It was important to me that it didn't become a sad and depressing song - there is enough going on in the world that makes me sad - I wanted this to be more of a bittersweet celebration of the circle of life and hope that comes across in the song. 

I hope this song brings some comfort to anyone who is or has been in a similar situation xxx


Kie

After what had seemed like an endless run of days when life has generally gotten in the way of fun, creativity and music, we’ve finally found the time to finish working on our second original song, ‘Ghost Of Me’ - an original song about how in adulthood you realise that many of your childhood dreams will never come to fruition, but that's OK- there's always still time to achieve something, even if its not what your childhood self might have envisaged. 

Loving the end result - hoping you like it as much as we do :)

Kie

So, here's a slightly funny story...

Steve Bear came over to the studio to record a County Album. For once he was really organised, knew exactly what songs he wanted to do, sat down at the keyboard and played two notes. The keyboard was set with a synth sound from when we had been messing around earlier. Those two notes  were all that it took for him to get an idea of a song stuck in his head. 

James and Steve played around with various sounds and instruments for a while and the outline of a song was born. 
Steve then handed me a piece of paper with the words "I'm asleep, come wake me" written on it and said "write me a song based on that!" - so I sat scribbling away as fast as I could, trying to keep up with the music they had started to play - it sort of felt as if the song was writing itself, and within less than 30 minutes we started to record a rough draft of "Take My Hand" - not remotely a country song at all! By the end of the weekend the song was pretty much finished and we enjoyed the process so much we decided to set up Concrete Spirit!

Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed producing it

​Kie