In a world where music seems to have wandered down some strange pathways, where new genres seem to pop up daily, seemingly as the result of musical gene-splicing in late night laboratories, where music is fused into odd new shapes and bent to fit musical fashion or created by the marketing departments of record labels, it is great to have someone such as Mod Martin to remind us exactly what songwriting should be about. That Mod Martin has a long and varied career behind him is clear in his songwriting, whether it is the classic acoustic sound of Remember June, the plaintive piano driven Never Surrender or any number of the dance floor collaborations with the cream of the European Dj’s and producers. But Mod Martin is nothing if not varied and you are as likely to find him contributing to a raging EDM track as you are to a Brit-pop era power-pop gem, adding guitar to a rock-dance crossover or revelling in spacious and heart-tuggingly emotive ballads. Mod Martin understands that a career in music is a long and intriguing journey and for all the distance he has so far travelled it is obvious that there is so much still to explore.