The Boy at Heart Story

Everything Starts with Intent

November 5, 2009

Everything starts with intent. You have to intend something to have a hope of seeing it realized. You have to intend something to gain the clarity and detail of what it is you are intending, so that is what I did. In a seemingly dark couple of days after returning home from a trip from an exotic land where I spent the most memorable 6 weeks with a woman I knew I wanted to share my life with I set to work in putting into motion what needed to be put into motion in order to create the reality of what I wanted.

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Hollywood, Tsunamis and Huey Lewis

November 3, 2009

The energy I had surviving the tsunami carried me through to completing that 11-track album by mid may. I had started it in February. By the end of the year I had lost touch with the lovely woman in Thailand, moved to a new town and a new job, was feeling pretty unfulfilled again planning a trip to the USA to see a friend there who wanted to help us with our music and was totally behind what he said was a truly great album. I very breifly got to meet Huey Lewis too, which was cool!

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A New Door Opens

October 12, 2009

At the end of 2001 I had become acquainted with a really great record producer and we naturally hit it off, like old friends. We remain friends today. He had worked with some bands that I had liked in the 1990’s, most notable is probably The Breeders "Last Splash" album

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The Smoke Clears Finally

September 22, 2009

Another high point around 2000 was that I bought myself a new Apple Mac computer (my first one!) and a Digital Audio Workstation for recording music at home. On reflection it’s crazy that I went so long without a decent way to record my music. It’s what I love to do the most!

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The Ups and Downs of Pursuing a Dream

September 22, 2009

As a result of having my life situation being turned upside down I felt that my life was crumbling around me. If only I had the awareness of a few things that I do now because if I had I would have known that my life was growing into all sorts of possibilities – Some of which probably slipped away from me as a result of me getting in my own way too!

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My First Experience of Songwriting

September 17, 2009

Napoleon Hill wrote something along the lines of "Every disaster carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit". Once I stepped out of feeling sorry for myself, the benefits were obvious.

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It Started in Another Corner of the Universe

September 15, 2009

The Boy at Heart story begins way back before I had any awareness of the name and I certainly hadn’t imagined quite the lifestyle I would be living today. Lets go back to 1996. Do you remember that far back. What I find incredible is that very soon 1990 will be 20 years ago!

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Time to Tell You a Story

September 14, 2009

So this story relates specifically to what I do as the Boy at Heart. It is not my life story. I wouldn’t put you through that ordeal! But it does go back a way because there are things that happened in my life which at the time were just ‘things’, which now I can see were instrumental in creating today!

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