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Category Archives: songwriting
March date
Actually I’ve got another gig in 2 day’s time which will precede this one so that’s a good warm up. On Tuesday it’s just me accompanied by Nacho on cojón, but the gig on the teenth will be with Everton … Continue reading
Posted in gigs, music, sea, songwriting
Tagged alfred jarry, alfred kubin, everton hartley, knut hamsun, mike dennis, nacho, rob nichols
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end of august
I had to buy myself a new nylon string guitar earlier this year because I was having problems with the pick-up on my old one and anyway thought it was time to get a more expensive instrument. I chose a … Continue reading
Posted in music, songwriting
Tagged achilles, arvo pärt, caspian gates, darial gorge, paris
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Absurd Rhymes
the final recording session for the new neureille album is a few days away. the last time i was working on an album i wrote a post about which animals featured in which songs. i’m not going to go quite … Continue reading
coathanger trail 3
The 3rd line of the song Coathanger is the paintings are northern too which is a reference to a song I wrote in 1977 or 1978 which was called Northern Painting. I gave the song that title as a reference … Continue reading
Posted in coathanger trail, music, songwriting
Tagged coathanger trail, dial 192, dry rib, mike mulholland, rod henderson, sheila henderson
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coathanger trail part 1
In a recent post I wrote and presented a couple of versions of a song called Coathanger and through that was born a new category which is called Coathanger Trail in which I work my way through the songs that … Continue reading
real
In 1991 I spent a few evenings doing a recording session with my friend Andy Smith who is now manager of the PMT music shop in Bristol. Whenever I call in at the shop and see Andy he always tells … Continue reading
Posted in birds, may, music, nonsense, songwriting
Tagged andy smith, john cooper clarke, vaseyesque
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The Moment of Creation
Usually these days when I write words for a song I do so using the Voice Recorder function on my mobile phone. I record in short bursts – 1 or 2 lines at a time. Writing it all down and … Continue reading