[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Between 8AM – 11AM
I tend to have a three-hour waking window as I don’t set an alarm and have no consistent bedtime/sleeping pattern. For argument’s sake, let’s say I woke up at 9AM today. I’ll make a coffee and some kind of ludicrous porridge (usually oats, coconut milk, peanut butter, honey, flaked almonds, poppy seeds, pecans, banana, blueberries and water) or other fancy breakfast (it’s my speciality) to keep me going for as long as possible, provided my housemate hasn’t stolen any vital ingredients of course.
10AM
I read the news and digest social media/email related stuff, then I call my manager and spend 5% of the call talking about important shit and 95% of the call talking absolute shit.
11AM
Usually, I attempt to learn some piano or procrastinate with some sort of mind-expanding documentary, film or TV series. I very rarely watch anything fictional these days. Documentaries are a good way of researching subject matter for lyrics, everything else feels like a waste of time.
1PM
Homemade soup or salad. I fucking love cooking.
1:30PM
Gathering thoughts from the night before and manipulating them into solid ideas. Demoing is the most important/time-consuming part of my day at the moment, I’m building a catalogue of new material for the second album and depending what I have planned for the evening this will usually be the rest of my day’s activities, except for some exercise and of course food later on. If I’m not working, I’ll usually go to an exhibition, museum or on a long walk with my girlfriend, Alice or if we’re really lucky, we’ll fuck off somewhere on holiday for a couple of days.
7PM
On this beautifully fictitious day, however, I’m looking for inspiration. I’ve gone out for a nice meal with Alice, we tend to try somewhere new due to the ludicrous amount of restaurants in London, but our favourite places are Rasa, Mildred’s or Morito.
8PM
I’ll meet up with a few of my friends, which often includes one or more of the ragamuffins you are already familiar with Billy, Henry or Greenie and we’ve gone to a pub or gig. I’m notorious for sneaking off without saying goodbye when I’m drunk. 25% of me can’t deal with persuasive drunk people encouraging more debauchery, 10% of me is bored 20% of me is tired & wasted, but crucially 45% of me knows that I might be really creative when I get home.
MIDNIGHT – 6AM
I’ll have a smoke, drink some wine or whiskey (I’ve developed a pretty stupid collection over the last couple of years) and write some lyrics and melodies using an unplugged electric guitar. I find I write better and more profoundly when I’m in a different headspace and all of the research and information I’ve absorbed during the day seeps out of me in a completely natural way. I do write sober a lot of the time as well but it’s always a little bit more square, and it’s never as honest. I spend a lot of the next day trying to decipher what the fuck I’ve played, mumbled or written into my phone but the process is always worthwhile.
You can probably see why I don’t set an alarm now…
Taken from the July issue of Dork, out 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