Incredible scenes to report from November, when my song “Unstoppable” (from the teenage jiu jitsu suffragette musical I’m writing with James Hughes) was performed at the Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize Concert. Watch as Sienna Aurora Clarke knocks it out the park! Hear that brilliant band with a new arrangement of the song! Revel in the awesome air punch at the end!

It’s on YouTube here. Do share it far and wide if you love it as much as we do!

In the middle of a busy month full of wild gigs (Our Cambridge Theatre show sold out to 1,200 nerds and brought Unnecessary Detail to the West End! I recorded a cool TV show I can’t tell you about until Christmas! Sienna Clarke sang our teenage jiu jitsu suffragette song in the Stiles + Drewe Best Song Prize final! I wrote two new songs for A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail including a 9 minute musical about automotive pioneer Bertha Benz! The Overture showcase for my Astronaut show is happening this Friday! I did a solo show in a planetarium in Leicester!) here is a moment of calm and a podcast you might like to listen to.

Before all the busy stuff started, I recorded the voice of Mary Wollstoncraft (yes, the mother of Mary Shelley, yes the Frankenstein one) and sang the closing song for this dark literary, fantasy, storytelling podcast “Submitted For The Approval Of The Midnight Pals” and the whole episode is finally out today. Follow that link, or search for “midnight pals” wherever you get your podcasts.

I got to channel my most classic embarrassing mum vibes for the script, and my twisted Frank Sinatra vibes for the song. Enjoy!

Happy days! The Craft Of Writing – my favourite new podcast about making musical theatre – hosted by the effervescent Sam Hall has picked one of my songs for a special end-of-season episode. It’s from an old version of “Almost Astronauts” that I’m writing with Jenna Dyckhoff about women in the early years of the Space Race. You should listen to the whole podcast obviously, because it’s full of great songs and creative teams, but if you’re short of time you can skip through to 41 minutes to find “Wally Funk’s Race For Space” and a little bit about how the song came about… Click here to find your favourite way to listen.