One time many moons ago, I sat down with a guitar & recorded whatever came into my head. An entire song tumbled out: chords, words and all. One take, improvised. It's never worked again, not the other 3254 times I've tried. But at least we got one, complete. #music

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'I Hate You' is track 11 on The Boy in the Diving Bell (out last August). Double-tracked acoustics and vocals, folky riff, nice melody, I tried to ruin it by blasting the psychedelic accordion piano in the mix. It's the kind of thing I do. song.link/TheBoyInTheD... #music #folk #indie #songwriting

We here at flakebelly.inc have gladly signed up for this. It's a great idea and a way to sell some physical music and merch. 122 MM do a lot of good work for the grassroots music community. Have a gander at the link and sign up!

122 Music Management will be running a pop-up record shop (Table Turners) in Forest Hill (South-East London) from 31 March – 5 April 2026. We would like to sell physical copies of your music and merchandise in-store on your behalf. 122musicmanagement.com/table-turners #MusicSky

Anyone else enjoy the silence between notes as much as the notes themselves? #music

Toothful is track 10 on The Boy In The Diving Bell, out last August. Probably my favourite guitar part on the album. Major Elliott Smith inspirations throughout. song.link/TheBoyInTheD... #indiefolk #acousticguitar #songwriting #newmusic

You're shipwrecked on a desert island, miraculously one of your guitars has survived. For no reason at all, the island has infinite electric power & is plentiful in #amps and #pedals. Also for no reason at all, you can only pick one type of #guitar. Are you going #acoustic or electric? #music

Bottled Up is the ninth track on The Boy In The Diving Bell, out last August. Acoustic guitar instrumental written around 2008. Phone footage from the actual album recording. Rough sound, wandering foot tap, kept as is. song.link/TheBoyInTheD... #music #folk #indiefolk

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It's #Bandcamp Friday. If you buy #music today, support the artist whose last post got 1 like. They're the ones who quit if today doesn't work out. Artists get 93% instead of 82% - for 20 sales at £8, that's an extra £17. One week of groceries or half a set of strings.

It's only bloomin' #Bandcamp Friday, so it is! Make an old flakebelly very happy today, why don't you? flakebelly.bandcamp.com #music #indie

Bandcamp Friday. You know the drill.

I made a thing today. The Flakebox. A standalone drone synth. Free to download and use. Windows only. flakebelly.com/the-flakebox Glitchy, warbling drone chaos, but also capable of clean, slow, high-resolution stillness. Let me know how it works for you. #sounddesign #dronesynth #freesoftware

I like to write and record alone. I find it's easier to agree with myself & if I DO disagree, I know just what to say to bring myself back on side. Also there's no one else to steal any of that sweet glory.

“Wind” is the 8th track on The Boy In The Diving Bell, out last August. Literally the wind in tall trees near my house during a mega storm, run through a broken Akai 4000D reel-to-reel Pitch shifts and hell-beast noises all via tape abuse song.link/TheBoyInTheD... #experimentalmusic #fieldrecording

4 years ago, on a Scottish island with 500 inhabitants, I converted part of a 150-year-old, stone-built garden shed into a recording studio. It was cold. Very cold. 2 years ago, on a different Scottish island with 20,000 people, I built a spare-room home studio in an actual house. This is progress.

Leavedate is the 7th track from The Boy In The Diving Bell. Out last August. Simple indie-folk with an Elliott Smith vibe, double-tracked acoustic and vocals, recorded live in the studio. song.link/TheBoyInTheD... #IndieFolk #SingerSongwriter #AcousticMusic

To beat our robot overlords, let's make music that is deliberately irregular & defiantly human. Wonky, pitchy, mistake-ridden, glorious meat-made music.

Emailing record labels is increasingly feeling like a depressing browse on Tinder.

The last two tracks for my next #album are done, out now for #Bandcamp subscribers flakebelly.bandcamp.com Of What's Been Lost & Sensory Overload. Out in April. No nice vocals this time, I shouted, rapped, pitch-shifted, used computerised voices. Production is #lo-fi, crunchy, distorted. I like.

Spinning turny tapey delay

Smile Report is the 6th track from The Boy In The Diving Bell. Out last August. A first-take, do not edit too much, demo-leaning approach. End of the world harmonicas, three bass guitars. Unhinged, grimy, nasty. Involuntary commitment paperwork energy. #music #bandcamp #independentmusic

My album's finished. Took 8 months. Written, played and produced by me at home. And none of it makes me wince. This is progress.

Beepy, boopy, flashy music lights

All night mix session tonight. 2 songs left and the album's done. Let's chuck some tracks through this dusty old, mostly broken gear and see how hairy we can get it. See you on the other side.

Soul backing vocals that sound like they were sampled from a cassette you found at the dump? Don't mind if I do.

The last place I expected this song to go was all Bowie impersonation on the vocals. But the song decides!

Newspaper Stairs is the 5th track from The Boy In The Diving Bell. One of my favourites. Weird, analogue-leaning experimental funk with an outsider pop edge. Sounds like running down a flat 80s Amiga corridor with tape wobble and cheap synth bass. #experimentalmusic #independentmusic #outsiderpop

Finishing off the last 2 songs for my next album. Out spring/summer. Scheming the next one. Compiling study material. I'm thinking long, long songs that flow into each other, no gaps, one continuous piece. The 3rd arc of a cycle, The Boy In The Diving Bell being the first. Stay tuned for part 2!

If you go on @kickstarter.com you'll quickly see that there is a choice between funding our latest LP/book, and funding a new Thundercats role-playing game. I know where my money's going, Lion-O. In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...

Attachment Catastrophe, 8th track from the new album, out now for Bandcamp subscribers: flakebelly.bandcamp.com Modal drones, backwards vocals, three bass guitars, dual lyrics, and a crunchy analogue mix. The sound of the end of your world. #NewMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AmbientRock

The 4th track from my album The Boy In The Diving Bell is All About Her. An acoustic folk song with guitar and vocals double tracked live. It’s really hard to keep both performances in time. This is the closest I’ve got. The intro drifts into bluegrass somehow. #folkmusic #singersongwriter

The third track from The Boy In The Diving Bell is A Spy In The Ointment. It began as an #acoustic guitar sketch, then spread across a #keyboard #orchestra and finished by a #jazz drummer. The #drum solo still makes my toe curl up in my boot. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo... #music #indie

Hear the teaser single from our forthcoming soundtrack by Near Minerals: We are an astonishing 85% funded, so please consider backing to get us over the line: it's an incredible release! difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/animal...

I think I might start documenting my incredible weight gain journey.

It’s almost Christmas. Had enough already? Me too. Come listen to my alt-rock / punk anti-Christmas single. Let’s Bah that Humbug together. song.link/flakebelly-M... #newmusic #alternativerock #punkrock

The 2nd song from my album The Boy In The Diving Bell is At The Prow of The Lifeboat. Acoustic guitar, strings, words, music, stuff. A lifetime of social missteps and unseen struggles. I suppose you could call it alt-folk. Or something. #newmusic #singersongwriter #folk #independentmusic

Has anyone seen my hat?

Name your price!

Can I interest anyone in a large box of meat?

It's WAAYY too early to be alive. This is all.

Big thanks to @untidyradio.com @untidymusic.com for giving this a spin this morning and for spotlighting the lyrics of this and other songs on a great list.

Today's mission: sing my vocals, flip them backwards, learn and sing the backwards vocals, flip those forwards again. Delete original vocals. Why? Why not. Gotta do something with your life. #music #vocals #singer #musicproduction

Rotten, from my recent album The Boy In The Diving Bell. Backwards guitar, doom laden piano as a bass and double tracked acoustics. My ancient Akai tape machine added warbles, blurples, wownesss and indeed, flutterering. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo... #psychfolk #acoustic #altfolk #music

I don't practice much these days, I spend all my time mixing and recording. Forgot I actually have to sing on some of these songs, it's been months. Time to clean those pipes out!

Four months ago I released The Boy In The Diving Bell, a mostly acoustic look into memory and perception. Recorded as live as possible, first takes, minimal editing. Raw and unpolished by design. Let me know what you think. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo... #music #folk #independentmusic

Bandcamp Friday is live! Full discography for £14.60 at 80% off, or a pay-what-you-want download of my novelty #punk / #altrock single 'Merry Christmas'. Old flakebelly might just get his festive orange this year after all. flakebelly.bandcamp.com #music #indie #christmasmusic #newmusic

The new @neverthebridle.bsky.social album, Feebling, produced by me @flamingjangle.bsky.social is out today on #bandcamp neverthebridle.bandcamp.com/album/feebling Thoughtful, raw and full of quirky instruments with wonderful layered vocals. You'll like it. #IndieMusic #DIYMusic #music

It's bloomin' #bandcampfriday so it is. Today only: my entire discography for £14.60 at an 80% discount, or a pay-what-you-want (even free) download of my novelty #Christmas single. Maybe old flakebelly can afford his festive orange after all. #music #indie #newmusic #christmasmusic