In March 2022, I published Journey of Song, a memoir about my songwriting between 1985-2018. This blog is about my songwriting activity since then, including news of gigs, recordings and releases. Most recent post appears at the top. For social media updates, follow Journey of Song on Facebook.
‘Combined Honours’ – Thom and Stanley in 4D at the Ashmolean Museum
It was great fun to see the Donwood/Yorke takeover of several galleries at the venerable Ashmolean Museum in Oxford last weekend. ‘This Is What You Get’, an exhibition of Radiohead-related artwork and memorobilia, spanned 30-plus years of creative collaboration between the songwriter and the visual artist associated with Radiohead, one of the most interesting and…
Bloke on the Water..
Earlier this week, I visited the Cariad IV narrowboat to record a few Goldfinches songs for The Narrowboat Sessions. For those of you unfamiliar with these sessions, they are an initiative run by Mark Holdsworth and his crew, offering “the biggest platform for unsigned, original acoustic music videos in the UK”. Every year, the Cariad…
‘Shanti Time’ album review
(The following is part of a longer article by Elfyn Griffith in the July 2025 online edition of Louder Than War magazine. To read the full article, which includes reviews of albums by three other cool Bristol artists, go here.) “Goldfinches‘ singer/songwriter and guitarist Shaun McCrindle, a former member of The Blue Aeroplanes, has been…
The Buddha of Crediton
As the singer-songwriter of Bristol Indie-folk group Goldfinches, I visited Tony Plato at Trobridge House (on the outskirts of Crediton) last summer to discuss the possibility of recording an album with him there, in the home he shares with Gina Williams. Tony is well-known locally, as a regular performer at the Moon Jazz Club in…
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My name is Shaun McCrindle. I’m a singer-songwriter from Bristol, UK. In March 2022, I published my ebook ‘Journey of Song: A Memoir of Songwriting from the Margins of Rock ‘n’ Roll’. This blog focuses on my songwriting activity since then. You’ll also find me on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
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