hey folks.
hope you’re well in these truly mad but exciting times… I have had a very interesting summer indeed… I let out my cottage and got in my van and took off. My mission..to head west and play all the finest of Britains alternative music festivals. Which I did. and it was great. I lived out of my van. (a camper), washed in rivers (clean ones!) and headed as far from towns & cities as I possibly could. It was very liberating. Gradually over the course of the summer I found myself to be COMPLETELY outisde of society.Like completely. without really consciously trying to. I just kind of followed my own energy flow all summer and it took me to nice wild and non-society places. which I took to be a sign. that it is time to step fully outside of society now…to live my life outside it.
As ‘it’ seems to me to be becoming less & less good for me. us. and I’d like to say you too. you reading this. All I know is that over the course of the summer I found myself feeling better and better… more & more healthy… more & more in touch with my true self. the self that doesnt care what anyone else thinks about them. the part that is free and wild and deeply caring about other people…the part that gets upset at seeing what society’s ways and deep deep conditioing is doing to people. and they dont even know it. Have you ever wondered why people in the street will quickly look down if you catch their eye?… I was in London the other day, and it SHOCKED me to see how people so AVOIDED each others eyes. and I started wondering why this happens…? How have we become like this? its not right. I used to think it was normal human conditioning when I lived more in society, but having stepped out of it I see that its NOT. Its not healthy. its the human condition gone BACKWARDS. And its time to reverse this conditioning and these unhealthy ways of living. From my quiet observing it seems to me that society is breeding SHAME in us. and DISTRUST of one another. Which is not right, and it must STOP. and that its time we started looking at each other…not avoiding eye contact for fear of what we will see. Its time to start seeing the GOOD in one another. the GOD in one another. we need to start treating each other BETTER!!! Its time to CHANGE. FUCK is it time to CHANGE. I WANNA SHOUT IT OUT ITS TIME TO CHAAAAANGE. WAKE UP. EVERYONE. If you are doing a job you dont like STOP IT! If you are working in something that is not benefitting other people STOP IT! It is TIME to start doing what we LOVE!
This whole summer we are all feeling things changing with such rapidity that it can seem soo confusing. But I see that we are truly moving into a new era. a new time for humanity. one that is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from how things are now. One that is based on TRUTH. And seeing and acting from a place of deep inner knowing. I can feel it happening and it is so SO exciting.
On that note I take the chance to tell you that we have a new SINGLE coming out very shortly… its called ‘I FEEL LOVE’. Its a super-lovely upbeat soulreggae toon. the lyrics are about what I am talking about in this blog… change. love. The choice we have.
It will be available to download from 11/11/11 from this website on the downloads page for 50p. PLEASE download it, tell EVERYONE you know about it… Embed it on your pages. Facebook it. Lets spread it far & wide around the world. I feel like this one needs to be REALLY out there. Helping. Soothing. Groooving!
Bless you.
Bob
Watch our new Single being recorded in the Studio – CLICK HERE
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How will we Survive? & new Album Progress…
Well our 2nd Album is coming along super well. I thought I ‘d share with a little of the story of how this album came about, what inspired it & how its going.
hmmm… let me think. Well, the songwriting and recording for this new album started 3 years ago when I was lucky enough to be living in a very groovy treehouse on an Eco-farm in Scotland. I had been gradually losing my marbles whilst living in the city, Edinburgh, and losing my faith in human-kind and the future in general. I had been on anti-depressants, even spent a night in the loony bin. I could’nt think straight, hold a job, or pay my bills or even afford to eat decent foods. I would wake up in the morning and not want to get up. at the worst point I couldnt even face walking down the street, because I found everything, most notably the way people act, SOOO depressing. I had thought about suicide. But could never actually do it. But then one day a friend of mine, Adam, a good & interesting chap, rang me & offered me to look after his self-built treehouse for 5 months whilst he was away travelling. Now this is no ordinary ‘treehouse’. This is a SERIOUS treehouse. With hot running water, a bath (yes, in the tree!), a wood-burning stove, full kitchen, double bed & internet. One might say a damn groovy fully functioning groovy hotel in a tree. Oh did I mention it was overlooking both the sea too?
NOW… why I am talking about a treehouse so fervently you ask? WELL… what happened to me in the months that I lived blissfully in this treehouse was very inspiring. and it inspired me to CHANGE MY LIFE. It showed me what was wrong with my life, that the city was making me ill. Mentally AND pysically. and more importantly it showed me that the reason I was struggling so much in the city was because the pace of life and in fact the entire cultural condioning of the city IS BACKWARDS!
What ARE you on about Bob I hear you say?… Ill give you an example… when you walk down the street, any street in any city what do you see? Do you see human beings smiling at each other, helping each other out, even acknowledging each other’s presence? NO. You dont. You see highly stressed out humans, doing their very best to COMPLETELY IGNORE EACH OTHER. People AFRAID to make eye contact with other people. WHY?… Because they are living from the wrong place. becuase deep down they KNOW they shouldnt be living like this. but they think well everyone else is living like this – so I must too. NO. Now this is where we stop and we have to WAKE UP! EVERYONE IS NOT LIVING LIKE THIS. We are just led to believe that they are. But they are not. WE ARE WAKING UP IN HOARDES!!!
So…We move out of the city. Say to an apartment by the sea that is actually less rent than the city. And we breathe in the good air. every day. and we eat locally-produced good food from the local independant shop. (nb NOT the super-market!) This change of scene jolts us out of the previous way we thought life was, the good air makes us think straight. Hell, we even take the initiative to find out where our local spring is (google it) so we can drink fresh spring water for free. (there are public wells ALL over the UK) By this point we notice that when we walk down the street people are actually smiling at us. “Hi, how are you?” I dont know you, but I acknowledge you as a fellow human being! is what they are saying… so you start to smile out at random people too! and it radiates. and spreads. You get me? Now that you are out of the city, feeling better by MILES, you are able to actually think more clearly and get some hints about what you actually WANT to do with you life… and for a job.
So, you start getting involved with local stuff…and quite quickly your life starts to change, and come together. You start to become part of ‘community’…people that help each other out… people that LOOK AFTER ONE ANOTHER. Its about changing from negativity to POSITIVITY. From fear, which is the cultural conditioning of the city, to LOVE.
We humans are DESIGNED to live IN LOVE. To look out for one another. to not just think about ourselves. To SHARE. To CARE. and I know that you feel this deep down in yourself. becuase its how the creator designed EVERYBODY. We have just been conditioned to not believe it. and 2012 my friends, IS the year to move OUT OF FEAR. and into LOVE. If youre scared you’ll be a wierdo for being different to other people…Dont be. Because the whole planet is waking up! and it wants you to be part of the Love too.
So there!
That is essentially the inspiration behind my new album. The album is called ‘LOVE‘. and what ive been through in my journey out of the city, in the treehouse and onto the land where I now happily live, is whats inspired the album. The 1st songs were recorded in TPot Studios, a gorgeous Old-school recording studio in a remote valley in Fyfe, Scotland, with my awesome new band & a producer Robin Wynn-Evans (The View, Dodgy, The Ruffness) at the helm. The sessions take place over the full moon, because we like the slightly mad vibe to record in. It is a potent time. Most recently I recorded my vocals to a song RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN, under the stars and full moon blazing. It was wicked. The newer songs are currently being recorded in a very cool reggae studio in Brixton, london, with a different producer who specialises in recording reggae. Its sounding VERY phat.
The sound is more upbeat than our 1st album, because Im in a much happier place. But also because the Massive Mellow, my band, has evolved and is becoming very globally influenced by the positive events and mass waking up we see going on.
Our 2nd Single from the new album ‘How will we Survive?’ is released on 1st Feb 2012.
We are giving it away for free in the hope that you’l dig it & spread it around your friends. It features the beautiful voice of CARRIE TREE, reknowned nu-folk singer, whom in fact is singing with me on most of the album!
Please download it. It is a gift. with your best-wishes for this epic year of 2012.
Click here for the free download… How will we survive?
One LOVE.
Bob