I have recently taken the difficult and, to some perhaps, not altogether satisfactory decision to remove all of my music from Spotify. This was not a simple choice given this platform's importance within the music industry and it was one to which I gave a considerable amount of thought. Ultimately, however, there were a number of factors behind this including Spotify's seemingly disdainful treatment of independent artists and, in my opinion, their devaluation both culturally and financially of songwriters' work. If you would be kind enough to consider following me on my Bandcamp page (above) to help support my music that would be much appreciated. I am releasing music there regularly and Bandcamp followers are always the first to hear my new music.

I had some great news recently that I look forward to sharing with you soon. I'm just waiting for the all-clear to tell you that, will let you know very soon!

You can check out my most recent single "So Easy" below. I recorded this track with Mark Wood at the Recovery College studios in Newcastle upon Tyne with my talented brother Paul Taylor providing his beautiful keyboard accompaniment. Lots going on on the recording and releasing front going forward so wll let you know as soon as things are getting finalised there. I'm having a short break from gigging to focus on that and also to learn some new material. I have wrtten. You can join my mailing list at the bottom of this page to sign up to hear my news first!

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. Many thanks to Help Musicians!

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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