The Official Website For Auriol Hays
‘How do people do it my dude?’ I asked my sister. ‘How can they have conversations about socks and shopping and cooking all the time!..?’ My sister paused while looking at me with the required amount of suspicion. ‘Ah, you haven’t been with someone in a long time so you forgot…’ It just seems like […]
I love uncovering other people’s secrets, or understanding that one thing that makes them tick. People do share with me. I take the time to listen because I know how important it is to be seen and heard. My friend popped by for a visit and said jokingly, ‘You should be a Lockdown coach. You know how […]
Last year sometime I wrote a song called An Eye for an Eye, because I was so damn mad. No, I wrote it sometime in 2019. Also, it felt good to get that anger out of my body and on to a page so I could confront it. I wrote it in a few minutes. It […]
Brilliant and entertaining talk. I read the book American Gods and I am a huge fan of the tv series. The third season just aired….trust me, watch it already! Of course, I am listening to Stephen Frye ‘s audiobooks already. Anyhoo, I digress, this is a brilliant talk.
It’s okay to have moments of sheer and complete panic, I reminded myself a few hours ago. It’s okay to doubt and not know which way to turn or what to do. This is just part of being human. Some bits are harder than most, and that’s okay also. I ask myself a series of […]
It saddens me that it is still a relevant subject. Amidst all the double speak around freedom and compliance.
Tale a listen. Seven tracks in all. Just Tumi and I during Lockdown. We spent two weeks together before my family went to CT to scatter my father’s ashes. It’s what we could do given where we were and what we were dealing with. Tumi is a lovely human being.m and he made me laugh […]
These last two years were so emotionally taxing, part of me wants to shout ‘Do Over!’ And scrap all the music I wrote so far. I know it is an emotional decision. As some of the music is rather good. But, the aim isn’t good. It’s brilliant or better than what I have created so […]
2020 has not been good to musicians. A few days into the new year and I am not even sure when or if I can plan a performance. As if things were not hard enough in South Africa without a pandemic before. A friend joked last night and said, ‘You wont leave without your Mother’s […]
Here are some songs I wrote or sang that summed up this year. In fact 2019 and 2020 were the most troubling years so far. Sure, things were learnt and fun was had. But damn I am glad it’s almost over. Enjoy your new year, the new energy and go into everything with…as pure a […]