Mabel Fyne

Since my band, The Trails, broke up in late 2013, I’d been struggling with what to do about my music.

I’ve always been a band girl. Being in a band is righteous! I have loved it with all my damn heart. It’s hard not being in a band. I miss the camaraderie, the shared vision, the hilarity and the rocking out.  I have been a bit lost without my band.

For 10 years I’d been writing songs. I always had the band in mind but as it worked out most of the songs never got to see the light of day. So, there they’ve been, waiting patiently for me to get my act together. Most of the songs were not recorded properly, they were in my head, on my phone, words on paper and some home demos.

But, I knew I wanted to make my songs complete. Recorded. Put out in the world. Catalogued somehow. Even if it was just for some sort of legacy for my kid. It’s gotta happen. Otherwise, what’s the freakin’ point?

Luke and I tried to keep ‘the band’ going but life kinda got in the way. Competing demands. And we probably needed a break. We were burnt out. We’d been trying to get a band off the ground, we’d had a kid, bought and renovated an old cottage and we were working pretty demanding jobs part-time. We got sick.

So, I spent a year alone in the studio, recovering, working out how to play my songs, writing new ones and feeling more and more disconnected from the outer musical world so that it felt like I was never going to share in any form again! One year became two, and now we’re into the third (FFS!)

It’s time to start putting something in the outer world. Sitting alone in a home studio meandering through musical mistiness had become a little boring.

I’m not really ready… But they say you should never actually be ready when you start. And I’m not. I have no new recorded music yet because oh thanks 2016 for having a totally fucked up start with a lightening strike frying the music interfaces and there goes the home studio! For awhile. So, we’ve been waiting for insurance companies and gear fixers and we’re almost there but not quite.

But what I want to do is get these songs on here in some form.

So, Mabel Fyne is thus. A little musical project by me. A start…. 🙂