50 new things in my 50th year
On the 13th of May 2025, Majk reached the milestone (possibly?) age of 49. In a bid to make sure he doesn’t get staid and boring, he has decided to do 50 new things in his 50th year, and he’s been asking people for their suggestions. Highlights so far include a Comic Relief Silly Song Marathon, carving a spoon, axe-throwing and walking the St Cuthbert’s Way, but additional ideas are very welcome. Majk’s planning to keep people posted if they’re interested by regular newsletters (also a new thing- sign up if you’d like to be added to the mailing list) and possibly even a blog, which would also be new and exciting!
Rewild Things!
In June 2022, Majk released a new single, “Rewild Things”, as a fundraiser in support the Langholm Initiative‘s community woodland buyout project to buy 10,500 acres of woodland in Dumfries and Galloway (South West Scotland) to turn into a nature reserve. It was announced later that year that £2.2 million had been successfully raised and the sale had gone through, creating one of the largest community-owned nature reserves in Scotland. Majk has since been down to visit and helped with the planting of 500 of the first new trees.
Other Events/Projects
Recycled: I was on full or flexible furlough from my day job for rather more than a year, so rather than sitting around and going quietly spare I was writing a lot of new songs and poems, and coming back to a bunch of old ones and brushing the dust off them… and I came up with a reasonable collection of material on the subject of recycling, repurposing, rebooting and re-creating, which to my mind is what the human race needs to start doing rather seriously if it’s going to get through the twenty-first century… anyway, I’ve compiled these new poems into a little booklet, printed on recycled paper (obviously!) and available now.
Majk’s first CD, Scratch One, was a short-run fundraiser album for the Akany Avoko orphanage in Madagascar, as part of a year-long national appeal that raised over £20,000.
Majk has also written several songs for comedy cult project “The Enlightened Brethren of the Sacred Truth”