I had been enjoying my time away from home, as it had been our first opportunity to get off the Peninsula post-lockdown, but for the whole time we were down there, I couldn’t stop thinking about my then-’love interest’, whom I missed dearly.
At the time I was still writing songs for Resignation From The Human Race, so when I wrote Here In This Place it was actually intended to be on the album.
However, not long after I returned from Metung I came up with the ‘legendary’ Would You Be Mine?, also about the same person, which I found myself writing much faster. As a result of this, Here In This Place was shelved and the album released without it ever having even been recorded.
It wouldn’t be until around June 2022 that I would revisit the song, while I was struggling to come up with new songs for a potential second album.
Although the song now had a different personal meaning, I decided to work on finally finishing it - which retrospectively wasn’t that hard given that it was only intended to be a short, simple song anyway.
Having now completed Here In This Place, I recorded it the following month, however a combination of several school, family and personal events, and subsequenly limited production time meant I could only release it at the beginning of December.
I hope you enjoy it nonetheless; it’s an old favourite and I was glad at the time that it had finally come out. Not to mention it’s been known to impress the ladies (and for once I’m actually not joking :D)