Simon Taylor
January 1st 2026
It felt right to try and echo the comedown feel of New Year with the release of a demo of a song with a similarly subdued tone. I wrote "Too Many Memories" while convalescing in a mental health crisis flat at the end of the summer. Inspired to an extent by Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", (maybe that will be more apparent when I hopefully record the full band version one day), "Too Many Memories (Demo)" was recorded and produced by Mark Wood at the Recovery College Studios in Newcastle. Thank you to both Mark and the Recovery College for all their help over the years. You can get more information about this track (and indeed buy and download it) through the link below, thank you to all those who do.
Photo by Ellen Dixon
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November 3rd 2025
I'm excited to say that my new single "Bella Señora" is out now! My first Latin-sounding release in a little while was produced by Ziad Jabero at Chilli Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne and is the second single from my upcoming new e.p, "Stars". Hope you enjoy!
Photos by Jon Forster.
September 5th 2025
My new single "The Day You Swallowed The Sun" is out now! You can find out more about this track through Niamh Poppleton's review below in the ever-excellent NARC Magazine. You can buy and download this track, the first single from my upcoming new e.p "Stars", through the link above. Photo by Jason Toward.
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February 7th 2025
​Simon Taylor's new Help Musicians-funded rock/ pop e.p "Northern Star" is out now! You can buy it on Bandcamp through the link below or stream it on Apple Music, Amazon Music and many other streaming platforms.
​February 8th 2025​
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Thank you to everyone who came to watch myself and my good friend Lesley Roley perform at my "Northern Star" e.p launch night earlier this month. Also to Katie Lock for this photo from the night, it was a lovely one!
I had a most positive start to 2025 when the British Library Sound Archive kindly accepted my request to update my back catalogue in their collection. This was following the amazing news back in 2022 that they wanted me to send over all my recorded music thus far for storage in their vast, comprehensive collection of sound recordings from around the world. I have therefore sent over everything that I am honoured for them to have in their possession. The above photo represents pretty much the complete collection of all the c.ds I have released, recorded and been a part of so far. These include ultra-rare one-copy c.d's, which I dug out and in some cases re-discovered recently while working on recent projects. Many thanks to the British Library Sound Archive for this honour.
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