Austen Releases First EP

Churcher's pupil, Austen has released his first single! Here he explains how the song came about:

Hi, I’m Austen and I’m 15. Recently I released a song called 'Demons (This isn’t me)' on all music platforms and wanted to share how I got to this stage of music.

It all began when I was in Year 4 and decided that I wanted to learn guitar. I then began taking singing lessons in year 5. At the time, I didn’t think that I would want to go further with music in my life as football was what I wanted to do; but when I got into Churcher’s College Senior School my perspective changed (mainly due to the legend himself - Mr James) and I began concentrating more on music.

I began spending time writing songs on the weekends and as I started to get better at guitar I wrote better riffs, and therefore better lyrics. When we came out of lockdown I started seeing the impact that the covid pandemic had had on people, the rise in mental health concerns, especially around my age group. I started writing thoughts down and this became verses and that’s how I wrote Demons. 

The message (I hope) is that when someone is suffering with mental health issues, this isn’t the real person, they are in a constant battle with their inner thoughts and emotions but with the right help and support they can be rid of those demons. My wish with this song is to highlight to people that they are never alone and that there’s always someone there for you, you just have to reach out and never give up on hope.

Thanks for reading, please check the song out it would be much appreciated! There is hopefully more to come…

Apple Music Link

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Listen to Demons (This isn't me):