Tonic Music and The Christopher Meredith Foundation announce a new mental health support package exclusively for music agents and...

Side stepping from last week’s focus on popular musicians and tabloid-ism, in this week’s writing I want to shine my blog torch toward...

From my many years of being on the receiving end of tabloid sensationalism I’m rarely surprised by the British press, but a recent piece...

Tonic Music are providing a new online Peer Support Group in partnership with The Ivors Academy and Music Minds Matter for songwriters...

Moving slightly away from (but not forgetting) the grass roots world, creativity and other ventures, in this week’s blog I wanted to...

Tonic Music are providing a new online Peer Support Group for those working in live music in any capacity who are Deaf, Disabled and/or...

A This blog was inspired by a recent Tonic Rider Peer Support Group where we found ourselves discussing young musicians and a potential...

A few weeks back now the irreplaceable David Lynch left this mortal coil. "So what does he have to do with music and mental health?" I...

Do you have a local venue, when was the last time you went to a show? This blog was inspired by a recent post in Drowned in Sound and...

I’ve recently been doing some research into why music makes us happy (or not) and came across an interesting piece from Australia....

Tonic Music are providing a new online Peer Support Group for independent festival organisers and staff, in partnership with the...

This blog was inspired by a recent post (on social media ironically) talking about how social media and technology have contributed to...

So, last week (or so) the NME reported on the ‘booming’ music industry. It seemed quite a positive start for 2025 but it did unfold with...

Tonic Rider are providing a new online Peer Support Group for grassroots music venue staff, in partnership with Music Venue Trust and...

As we slowly get started in the new year I thought I would remind everyone of ears! Yes, hearing. 2025 sees me back out playing the drums...

Moving sideways from last year’s series of blogs on grassroots culture, I will now zoom out and look at the positive impact of the arts...

Moving on from grass roots culture, I thought I would end this year’s writing by looking at musicians and money, especially at this time...

Grass roots, yeah, so what? I, like many of us, started out in the small gritty performing venues spread across the UK. Some call them...

Hold the front page… I’m taking a temporary diversion from the music psychology stuff! I’m not sure about you but I’ve been keeping an...

Carrying on from Tonic’s new partnership with Richer Sounds, I thought it would be interesting to put my music psychologist hat on and...