Feet Don’t Fail Me Now has now been playlisted by over 40 radio stations, and had some big airplay on Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show. Thank you Dermot! By all accounts he actually cares passionately about the future of music and young songwriters, contrary to what you might expect from watching X-Factor… (sorry X-Factor fans but it’s true!)

I’ve done so many radio interviews I have to be careful not to launch into a traffic update every 5pm. Although you can’t beat the big all-powerful Beeb, I’ve been so impressed with some of the smaller local and community stations. They’re often staffed by volunteers who do it for the pure passion of it, for the thrill of having a microphone in front of them and a big bag of CDs… Read the rest

A rather belated but no less emphatic thank you to everyone who helped make the Bush Hall album launch the most incredible night of sell-out wonder I’ve ever been part of.

Everyone from all the fans who piled in, sat down, stood up, hung from the chandeliers, to the band and an enormous army of helpers – made the night the most incredible gig I’ve ever done. There’s nothing I would have changed, which is saying something from me as I come away from the good gigs wondering… Read the rest

This time last year I started taking my first steps into the studio to record my debut album.

Along the way I found a hurdy gurdy player, conducted a choir, added more cowbell, recorded the sound of me snoring then starting a car, snuck into recording studios that cost £1000 a day to record ‘This City’ in one continuous first take, mixed the record twice and had the time of my life.

The resulting album ‘Many Fish To Fry’ is now available via my own independent label – Sandwich Emporium Records. You can get a copy from my own shop, Amazon, iTunes, and selected record shops.

If you are interested in helping further, there’s loads you can do. Tell your friends, post my videos and songs, email music blogs and discussion groups, email your favourite radio DJs, come see us live or even buy the record! I … Read the rest

After a particularly memorable day walking and clapping in slow motion down the streets of london, and quite a bit of Tom Munday‘s time slaving over a hot animation machine, I can finally show you the video to first single Feet Don’t Fail Me Now.

You can watch the video here, or use this link to share it: http://bit.ly/feetvid
The track is available to download on iTunes, HMV digital, Amazon and loads of other digital retailers.

The video was directed by my extremely talented friend Alex Genn-Bash and turned out to be a rather torturous process. There were just so many ideas we had – how to choose which one to go with? In the end the idea we had settled on was deemed ‘unsafe’. Something about the ‘risk of being sued if 10 extras fell off scaffolding designed to hold 1 or 2 people’ or whatever…… Read the rest

My biggest gig ever with loads of special guest musicians. Plus a cake stall. Plus a free bonus track to download. Plus a fancy dress photo area. And probably sandwiches.

In fact nevermind me trying to describe it just come see for yourself? Get your tickets for the big launch party here: http://bit.ly/jakemorleybushhall. They’re only £6 so bring your mates too. Go go!

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The first batch of UK Tour dates have now been announced in support of my debut album, Many Fish To Fry.

If you’re within reach of any of these then please do show your support by coming to a show. If you’re not then don’t worry – we’re intending to put together further tours in the spring covering other parts of the UK and Europe.

For ticket bookings, just click on the links below:

27th JAN – BUCKS NEW UNI STUDENT’S UNION, HIGH WYCOMBE
3rd FEB – MR KYP’S, POOLE
5th FEB – QUDOS, SALISBURY
10th FEB – INDY JAX, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
13th FEB – LOUGHBOROUGH UNI, LOUGHBOROUGH (support)
18th FEB – PJ McGINTY’S, IPSWICH (solo)
21st FEB – BUSH HALL, LONDON **ALBUM LAUNCH**
4th MAR – BODEGA SOCIAL CLUB, NOTTINGHAM (solo support)
8th MAR – FARNCOMBE TAVERN, FARNCOMBE
10th MAR – THE ELGIN, LONDON
11th MAR – TALKING HEADS, … Read the rest

Please god let that not happen by the way – your Christmasy song being Christmas number one is pretty much the end of your career, though it does mean a lifetime of royalites…

I felt quite nostalgic this Christmas, so I decided to write a Christmas song. It’s all about quality street tins, DVDs of fireplaces and leaving an empty pillowcase out for Santa.

PS if this disappears, it might be because I’ve taken it down until next Christmas when the 2012 campaign will begin!… Read the rest

I get quite a lot of charity requests, but not many that combine music with endless rooms of delicious cakes, organised by a close friend. Cupcake Camp London, held at Proud in Camden, was raising money for The North London Hospice who I’ve fundraised for in the past. If donations made and cupcakes eaten are anything to go by, the event was a real success.

Interesting chat with Alasdair Campbell, but maybe not as interesting as it could have been had I veered the conversation towards politics. But how could you bring up serious political debate at a cupcake event?! It’s just wouldn’t be cricket…

Afterwards there was a huge party to go to a The Flowerpot – a live music venue in Kentish Town at the centre of London’s music community that has been forced to close. It became successful purely as a result of those who ran … Read the rest

Nothing like a bit of fresh air, and a mini tour around the south left coast.

Those of you who’ve been to my shows this year may well know the song ‘Many Fish To Fry’. Each verse is a different possible future for me, and in the last one I open a sandwich shop where I spend so much time and money making amazing sandwiches for people I inevitably make a loss. Hence the name ‘Jake Morley’s Famously Lossmaking Sandwich Emporium Shop’.

Looking around parts of Cornwall on this recent tour made me think that the south west wouldn’t be a bad location for this at all. My friend Daisy could make cakes, and I could put on live music too. Interesting idea…. but not for just yet.

A massive thank you to Tony Davies in Poole too who is helping us so much at the moment. He set up … Read the rest

Our award-winning video for my new track ‘Freddie Laid The Smackdown’ is available for you to watch!

The video accompanies a FREE download of the track at http://music.jakemorleycom-2.onyx-sites.io – go grab it now!

Radar Music Videos, the leading website for such things, awarded it their video of the month – we’re so grateful to them. Thank you!

It was such a group effort, and I can’t thank enough some lovely people who made it happen:

Director: Alex Genn-Bash
Producer: Miranda Fay Thomas
Director of Photography: Jasleen Kaur Sethi
Make-up: Laura Barrow
Production Assistant: Huw John Sam
Cast:
Sebastion Stobbs
Steven Shapland
Kevin Pollard
Rudy Grant
Phoenix James
Harry Mead
Danny D’Anzieri… Read the rest