‘Maybrain‘ was an EP by my singer songwriter project Violet’s Gone.

It was the result of a challenge set by WeeklyEP presenter Cody Swanson/Noisycrane to produce a complete EP within 7 days. The podcast project he was doing started in the coronavirus lockdown in Spring 2020. Some friends of mine from the days of MySpace, Aubben Reneé and Jose Delhart were a featured artist one of the weeks and having heard their songs and some of the other artists featured on other weeks episodes, I needed to get involved. The other motivation was that Violet’s Gone II had reached a stand still in production, so being forced to drop that, write a bunch of new stuff and record it with little to no time to edit – may have just been the kick up the arse I needed.

It worked! I like to think.

Me and Cody had a great chat at length about where inspiration comes from, about alternate tuning, colour perception, LSD and P.T. Anderson movies.

The songs of the EP I think came out pretty well given the limitations, and two of the songs at least still make for regular performance at my gigs to this day.

The podcast is still available on Spotify. If you like the songs enough, they are available on Bandcamp.

Violet’s Gone is currently not present on streaming platforms, and may not be for the forseable future.