Jamaican love

I went to Jamaica in 2007 with my dad. we had already recorded our first album, and this holiday would open up a different world. Our first night there, we were naive, taken deep into the countryside, up onto the mountains and waterfalls by a jamaican on a motorbike. It was beautiful, but we didn't know that at the end of the day they would demand a tip, which we didn't have and make us drive to the cash point where they would stand and wait for us to draw out money. We luckily went our separate ways, blagging our way home, and wrote our first song, 'Montego Bay'.


"driving out to the country, a beautiful place to come from, with a tour guide we just met at the roadside. stepped down a hundred stairs to where the rasta man he says his prayers, we washed our sins, in a sacred spring."

From this moment forward, we would stay within ten miles of our guest house, and meet so many people on the beach. One person in particular, my first romantic love. Jermaine.

 This experience created songs such as 'The otherside of the world' and 'The one thing'. We didn't just come home with an amazing tan, but memories which you can't erase. We met artists such as Mikey over there, and Coach. Nearly every day we would sit under an almond tree, sing with the guitar, while the locals would come and join us, singing along.

This would later become the allmond tree which titled our second album 'Under the Almond Tree'

During the three weeks we were introduced to a completely different culture, met some amazing people, experienced some wild emotions, and this would stay with me for the next four years of my life until this day. The plane journey home was one of the hardest things I ever had to do, my dad held my hand and we flew away back to rainy London.