Author Archives: BJD

Song a Week 2022 – Week 30: Two ideas: firstly, that we are all formed of the stuff of stars and secondly, the journey of life. Something of a spiritual journey.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 29: A kind of reflective love song about either getting back together or starting over with someone new.

Performance of my song Tell Me Everything, with Peter on guitar and Graeme on drums! At the Smile Bar and Venue Live Lounge July 6th 2022.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 28: An instrumental piece alluding to the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata, which straddled the western coast of present day Scotland and the east coast of northern Ireland, reaching its zenith in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 27: A story about achieving a lifelong dream at great personal expense. We meet our protaganist as a child, young astronaut and the first man on Mars.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 26: When times are hard, intolerance, injustice and selfishness manifest themselves. Extremists exploit suffering, politics becomes more extreme. This is a song about digging in and being resilient to those forces.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 25: Inspired by ‘the song of the week theme’ I created a wavy piano piece and then added a simple poem as the lyric. A rusting corrugated iron roof, with words painted white and facing the sky.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 23: Some 1980s style pop rock. Time to dance, time to get back together. An attempt to create that elusive ‘earworm’.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 23: This is, in fact two songs that ‘segue’. In my twenties I was ill for 8 months with post viral chronic fatigue. Unable to stay awake for more than two hours at a time I spent my waking hours writing the lyrics for a musical based on Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The lyrics have sat in a folder for over 40 years! Now the first two songs have been recorded.