Frederick James Arrives Under The Clocks Right On Time

There’s a beautiful thing that touched my chords with the song I want to introduce to you today. It’s about Frederick James and his single Under The Clocks, released on 17 April 2026. A song built around one of those places every town seems to have. A clock tower, a train station entrance, a harbour bench where people promise forever after three beers and a cigarette. Even if they probably borrowed from somebody else.

In the city where I grew up, couples met under a clock too. We used to call it “the bad clock” because it showed every possible hour except the right one. Funny enough, people still trusted it with first kisses, breakups, promises, and those dramatic “see you at seven” moments. Well… that usually turned into eight-thirty and an argument near a kebab shop.

Frederick James And Life In Motion

Frederick James comes from Perth, Australia. The man performed over 75 open mic sets during 2025 and wrote more than 300 songs overall, including over 230 songs within six months alone. That kind of output usually makes the clocks run faster and people roll their eyes like somebody just brought an acoustic guitar to a family barbecue. Or both.

I like the realness surrounding this entire project. We deal here with a songwriter documenting life while it happens, leaning into family, relationships, fatherhood, mistakes, memory, and all the little dents people collect along the way.

Under The Clocks, Somewhere Before Sunrise

Musically, Under The Clocks runs on acoustic guitars, melody, and the kind of chorus strangers suddenly start singing together. You can hear traces of Noel Gallagher in the songwriting DNA, especially through the chorus melodies and the direct way Frederick tells the story.

I loved this one: “I’ll meet you under the clock. City lights around the night away.” Very few words, and that’s exactly why it works. Then Frederick James follows it with: “Sun’s coming up. It’s the start of a beautiful day.” That moment says everything about the song for me. It’s about connection, about timing, and the strange comfort certain places keep for decades. Whether the clocks are showing the right time or completely drunk again.

If Under The Clocks pulled you back toward old meeting spots, go follow Frederick James around the internet. He’s on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Spotify. Meanwhile, somewhere in Perth, he probably already wrote another twenty songs before I finished this article. Good. Keep them coming.

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