Adrian Dane: Enter the Universe
OF ONE MIND
THE DOORWAY
CLEETHORPES BORN · SHUMEN BASED · NEVER QUIET
DON’T READ
MY BIOGRAPHY.
ENTER IT.
I am Adrian Dane. Author, songwriter, learning designer, football writer and builder of useful, strange and stubbornly independent things.
01 / MUSIC
THE VILLAGE
REJECTS
The voice changes.
The truth does not.
A Shumen-based collective built around my lyrics and a rotating cast of guest guitarists and singers. Blues and rock for outsiders, drunks, lovers, workers and everyone who has ever felt unseen.
FEATURED FILM · 03:33
ANYWHERE
BUT HERE
“I really, really wish I could be anywhere but here.”
The quiet, dissociated heart of The Village Rejects. A song about being present but invisible, supported but unreachable, with no real destination beyond somewhere else.
LYRICS ARE PART OF THE PICTURE. TURN THE SOUND ON WHEN YOU ARE READY.
SINGLE · 13 MARCH 2026
I DON’T
WANNA WAIT
“Until I’m sixty-five at the cemetery gate.”
A hard-rock refusal to postpone living. Wage stagnation, cubicle monotony and the fear of discovering that retirement arrived before life ever began.
SINGLE · 11 AUGUST 2025
PAPER
GOD
“The chain that binds the people.”
Money becomes idol, puppet-master and funeral shroud. A blunt, chantable attack on the things we are told to worship, with one perfectly deliberate irony: buy the track.
SINGLE · 13 JULY 2025
BACK WHEN
IT WAS LOUD
“No GPS, just a mate and me.”
Bikes, streets, scraped knees and the glorious absence of tracking. A love letter to a pre-digital childhood when freedom was unsupervised and the whole estate belonged to the kids.
SINGLE · 30 MAY 2025
WHISKY
MOMENTS
“I still whisper your name.”
A love letter to a mother. Addiction, shame, regret and the complicated tenderness that survives them. The rebel voice drops its guard and chooses forgiveness.
DEBUT ALBUM · 14 TRACKS
TALES FROM
THE BABA BAR
The village bar is where every voice gets a turn.
Fourteen stories rooted in Shumen: protest, love, ghosts, village camaraderie and hard-won hope. Start with the swagger of Broken Crown Blues, then hear the haunting weight of Six Million Voices.
SECOND ALBUM · 16 TRACKS
TALES FROM THE
MISERABLE BAR
Everyone has a story after midnight.
Sixteen songs move between bruised ballads and harder rock about corruption, city struggle, outsider identity and resilience. The bar becomes confession booth, battleground and home.
02 / BOOKS
EVERY BOOK
OPENS A DOOR
History. Cosmic terror.
A village full of cats.
Different genres, one obsession: ordinary people caught inside something far larger than themselves.
HISTORICAL FICTION · AVAILABLE NOW
TWO FAMILIES. TWO WARS. ONE SKY.
THE
SAME SKY
November 1916. A German airship falls in flames towards the Essex marshes. The Englishman who shot it down lifts a brass compass out of the mud and reads the name engraved on the back.
The Hoffmanns keep an instrument-maker’s workshop on a German lake. The Hartleys keep a boatyard on a Kent shingle. A compass and a water-stained diary pass between them across sixty years.
OPEN THE FIRST PAGE
“The house had been waiting to be emptied for longer than anyone had been willing to admit, and now that the day had come it seemed to hold its breath.”
Kate lets herself in with the key that has always lived under the third flowerpot. She expects to clear a house. Instead, a rose-printed biscuit tin opens a door into everything her family chose not to say.
SCIENCE FICTION · AVAILABLE NOW
SOMETHING IS TRANSMITTING BETWEEN THE CHANNELS.
THE ECHO OF
THE STATIC
What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? What if it was the end of a war?
For Dr Aris Thorne, a reclusive astronomer, the universe is a place of comforting certainty. Until one night the static blinks. The question is no longer whether the signals are intelligent, but what they want and whether the answer should be shared.
LENNYKINS CHRONICLES · BOOK ONE · AVAILABLE NOW
FOXWOOD LOOKS QUIET. THE CATS KNOW BETTER.
THE FOXWOOD
MYSTERY
Retired headmistress Mabel Harper is found dead, and her will leaves everything to the cats. In a village of old grudges, polished manners and watchful windows, that is enough to make almost everyone a suspect.
“Cats moved through the rooms as if the house were a map only they could read.”
Warm, clever and just sinister enough. A cosy mystery for readers who want their village intrigue served with wit, heart and feline intelligence.
LENNYKINS CHRONICLES · BOOK TWO
COMING NEXT
LENNYKINS
ARRIVES
“The post arrived at ten past eight. David did not pick it up.”
Disgraced former detective David Corbel has come to Foxwood to disappear. Then a quiet white cat looks at him through the shelter glass with the patient certainty of a creature who has been waiting.
A completed new mystery of damaged people, old village wounds and the survivor who simply stays. Move through the finished artwork to enter the world before publication.
03 / PROJECTS
IDEAS THAT
BECAME REAL
Not mock-ups.
Not someday. Live.
Publishing platforms, sports journalism, community infrastructure, language learning and tools built to solve problems I understood first-hand.
LAUNCHED BOXING DAY 2019
WHATCHAN
One simple question: what channel is the football on?
A daily answer built into a living publishing platform. Whatchan combines fixtures, UK broadcast data, previews and search-led utility so supporters can get from question to kick-off without the clutter.
- Daily UK football TV listings
- Editorial previews and match context
- Built, maintained and evolved independently
INDEPENDENT SPORTS PUBLISHING
THE SPORTS
GURU
Years of ghostwritten expertise, finally under my own name.
Predictions, analysis and long-form sports journalism shaped by more than thirteen years in high-volume football content. Editorial judgement, data, deadlines and the confidence to make a call.
- Football, racing and major sporting events
- Research-led previews
- Thousands of articles behind the craft
BUILT FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE
SHUMEN.UK
A practical bridge between Britain and Bulgaria.
News, explainers and useful local knowledge for English-speaking people building a life in Bulgaria. It turns the questions migrants actually ask into clear, searchable answers.
- Local and national news in English
- Residency, services and everyday guidance
- A British perspective rooted in Shumen
A COMPLETE LEARNING PROGRAMME
BULGARIAN
IN 60 DAYS
Language learning designed by someone who had to use it.
A structured sixty-day route from survival phrases to useful everyday Bulgarian. The project brings twenty-plus years of learning design to the real friction of moving countries.
- Short daily learning journeys
- Practical spoken Bulgarian
- Designed for momentum, not perfection
DESIGN · CODE · PUBLISHING SYSTEMS
DANE
DESIGN
The workshop behind the worlds.
Websites, publishing systems and digital experiments that turn rough ideas into useful things. Strategy, content and implementation stay in the same room, so nothing gets lost between a brief and a build.
- WordPress and custom publishing
- Automation and data workflows
- Creative direction with practical delivery
REMOTE DIGITAL BUSINESS · FROM 2014
PICS
2VIDS
Before the current creator economy had a name.
Bespoke photo-to-video storytelling, built and operated remotely from Bulgaria. Personal memories became paced, musical films, proving that a small digital service could cross borders and still feel intimate.
- Story structure from personal archives
- Image restoration, motion and music
- A human service delivered digitally
AN EARLY CHAPTER, AND PART OF THE DNA
04 / THE LIFE BEHIND THE WORK
THE ROUTE WAS
NEVER STRAIGHT.
ROYAL NAVY
Weapons engineering, precision and accountability when the stakes were real.
THE STAGE
Main-stage bingo caller, learning how to hold a room before learning how to train one.
XL PROMOTIONS
A record shop, live events and the first serious collision between music and enterprise.
LEARNING DESIGN
More than 5,000 people trained, digital curricula built and complex change made understandable.
FOOTBALL CONTENT
Thousands of predictions, previews and immovable deadlines, mostly behind somebody else’s name.
SHUMEN
Books, songs, platforms and the next useful thing, all being built from Bulgaria.
THERE IS NO FINAL CHAPTER
STILL
BUILDING.
The books, songs and websites are not separate careers. They are evidence of the same habit: notice what is missing, imagine what might exist, then make it real.
ADRIAN DANE AUTHOR · SONGWRITER · BUILDER OF WORLDS
ARTIFACT FROM THE STATIC
TUNE THE SIGNAL
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