Deaf Fret is in the process of updating the website.Rob Skarin at Crystal Spotlight has designed – and is implementing – a fully furnished, cross-referencing layout that demonstrates the full extent of Deaf Fret activities. Watch as it grows.

Margaux Valarche will be bringing her charming and disarming poems to Deaf Fret, with the filming of some short films beginning on Friday the 14th of March.Watch for them to be posted on the Deaf Fret socials and YouTube channel in due course.

Miles Skarin from Crystal Spotlight will be consulting with Ross Merrin this week to conclude his brilliant work on the Hide and Seek video.A filming date has been set to capture Margaux Valarche and her unique poems for release.

The Deaf Fret YouTube channel hosts a selection of shorts where Ross Merrin talks about his writing:https://m.youtube.com/@Deaf-Fret/shorts

Dive Magazine have now posted the interview with Ross Merrin online. In it, Ross spoke to Crowley about diving, marine mammal rescue and writing his book ‘How Beats the Original Heart’.On the day, they did struggle to get past their mutual love of Ozzy, Sabbath and all things guitar. But, being pros… https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/ross-merrin-on-training-bdmlr-marine-mammal-medic

With ‘Normalising the Extreme’ now re-released, Ross Merrin is creating a series of videos isolating individual guitar and bass parts from many of the songs. These are now being posted on Deaf Fret socials and Deaf Fret’s YouTube channel.

Deaf Fret is working with the brilliant singer-songwriter Sam Macdonald (formerly of Mellow Mayhems) on an EP for release in the near future.

Director of Deaf Fret, Ross Merrin, has been interviewed by Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell at Dive Magazine about his training as a volunteer for the charity British Divers Marine Life Rescue and how his diving experience fits into his book ‘How Beats the Original Heart’. Once they stopped talking about their mutual love of guitars that is…

Author of ‘How Beats the Original Heart’, Ross Merrin, was interviewed on January 8th by Hannah Murray for Talk Radio Europe’s excellent ‘The Book Program’.The informative interview – in which Hannah questions aspects of the book and Ross’s writing process – will be broadcast some time in the next two weeks.Watch this space for news of the broadcast date.

Ross Merrin’s debut album ‘Normalising the Extreme’ has been re-released and is available on all digital platforms. Originally released in 2011, it is over an hour of songs that run from one to another in an eclectic yet coherent sequence with a tale to tell.