Rebrand

As I sit here writing, I'm listening to David Bowie's Blackstar. I'm still not over it. I think the reason I went through an emotional upheaval when Bowie died (which was very odd to me and never really something I'd experienced before) was because it was like losing someone who 'got it'. I never knew him personally. He certainly never knew me. One thing we both understood about each other though was this trait of picking up personalities.

​​I call them characters but I guess it is more than just that. It's an intense face. A personification of a mood at that time in your life. 

Illustration by Anthony Rollinson.

I have gone under many names, been published as Gallimaufry the Ineffable, won contests as Al Zord, but recently, yesterday actually, I started to move away from my most successful one, Blaidh Nemorlith. It's scary being just you, especially creatively. Blaidh will always exist (he has to, I have a new self-published book out with his name on it!) but it is time to move the whole bag of moods and interests into the stage lighting and smile with just one mouth.

​Well, for now at least.