chris mortimer

Hello again and welcome to the chrismortimer.com website 2025.

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I hope that you enjoy the website and its content and to me, it is an outward statement of my first love in music – songwriting.

Currently, I am still involved in music education and whilst it is rewarding, I will always be a musician.

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Music has been both a livelihood and a love, and creatively, I have been a bit on ice for a while. However, the thawing has now occurred, and I have been right back into songwriting recently, following the delivery of a “new”,1975 piano. More on that in a moment.

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I mention the work I do because it is quite outside the mindset needed to be creative in a musical sense. The term benchmark exists in my world, and over time, some of my own expectations prevented me from being confident, relaxing and writing about things with simplicity. So, about a year ago, whilst watching a BBC crime series, I heard Theres a Storm a’ Comin, which just clicked with me. I could connect with the vibe and tapestry of the song, and it led me to Richard Hawley, from Sheffield, United Kingdom, it’s writer.

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​​The piano…about a year ago, I bought a Yamaha G3 grand piano from a dealer in Sydney, sold to me “as traded”. After I bought it, my tuner Rob Eastwood tuned it and commented on the tone and tension of strings being an issue resulting in irregularity and arranged for a Yamaha trained technician to come and rebuild it. After this and a retune, it plays beautifully and like new. It inspires me like no other instrument I have owned or played, and currently, I am writing with it every night. 

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A new album will be released soon and will feature many of my most recent songs as well as some that were part written and never developed.

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The website updates include some side B songs or album fillers which I thought might be fun to include. The demo page will be updated too with old rough stuff that I love. These include Heal The Pain, Revolution, Beautiful and Follow You. 

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I recently met up with my old school music teacher Darryl Chute who was my great inspiration as a kid, who along with some others, inspired my love of songwriting and music production. This update is dedicated to him and his beautiful wife Patti.

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Love and best wishes, Chris