12 Track Album

A collection of covers I love by amazing songwriters, and a few of my own songs, recorded simply with guitar and vocal.

1 Baby Bonus (Written by Dan Kelly)
2 Heart's a Mess (Written by Gotye)
3 Break My Heart (Written by Heath Cullen)
4 Black Boy (Written by Coloured Stone)
5 North Sea*
6 Dear Someone (Written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)
7 Massacre (Written by Chris Bailey)
8 La Vie En Rose (Written by Edith Piaf)
9 I Will (Written by The Beatles - this one is for Brett and Kara!)
10 In These Arms (Written by Glen Hansard)
11 Will of the River (Written by Darren Hanlon)
12 Man of Stars*
13 My Heart Just Wants to Fall*

(All * written by Melanie Horsnell)

Recorded at Studio des Quatre Chemins, Pantin, Paris 23 January 2015 after a couple of weeks of spontaneously meeting musicians at venues like the gorgeous Coolin and Paris Open Mics, in tiny bars busking afterwards, annoying the barmen who wanted to go home but pleasing tired sozzled customers, and on street corners in the dark hours of dawn while roaming the streets, stopping to make music wherever we were, shouting philosophies and singing to whomever would listen...