Author Archives: BJD

Song a Week 2021: Week 45 Escaping from the shadowland, fleeing with the wind, emerging from the darkness where the pathway home begins. A song about flight from oppression, conflict and poverty.

Song a Week 2021: Week 44 A short song about love, leaving and loss.

Song a Week 2021: Week 43 This started out as a song about dreams and disappointment but turned into a climate change protest song. Tried to keep it dream like.

Song a Week 2021: Week 42 Close to his death Sir Isaac Newton was humble. He said, “I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Song a Week 2021: Week 41 – October 16th 2021 – A song about the damage that sharp words can do.

Song a Week 2021: Week 40 – October 9th 2021 – Life is better if we manage to keep expectations of our highs and the despair of our lows in control.

Song a Week 2021: Week 39 – September 28th 2021 – Leeds Direct Arena. Almost certainly the last time I see Banks, Collins & Rutherford perform as Genesis. This is a tribute using photographs I took at the gig. My favourite band at the Last Domino?

Song a Week 2021: Week 38 – September 26th. I started with a Kinks ‘lazy Sunday afternoon feel’ but as usual got diverted to the darker side of human nature and the song ended up contrasting the pleasure of drinking with addiction to alcohol.

Song a Week 2021: Week 37 – September 19th 2021. Short and sweet this one. It is our garden and Alison is the gardener, so this song is for her. Me, I’m just a lawn mower, you can tell me by the way I walk.

A song about being uplifted and engaged with others. Chilled resilience.