Author Archives: BJD

Written as we approached 100 days of Coronavirus/Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. I tried to capture a series of images as lines in the song and wrap them in a chorus about the absence of touch in the virtual world and the cost of getting back to normal.

Written as we approached 100 days of Coronavirus/Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. I tried to capture a series of images as lines in the song and wrap them in a chorus about the absence of touch in the virtual world and the cost of getting back to normal.

Written as we approached 100 days of Coronavirus/Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. I tried to capture a series of images as lines in the song and wrap them in a chorus about the absence of touch in the virtual world and the cost of getting back to normal.

I asked Joe, a friend who is also a semi-pro musician, how you could make money out of songwriting. He said, “Write a Christmas hit.” It was August but I had a crack at it. It is about the office party.

Written as we approached 100 days of Coronavirus/Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. I tried to capture a series of images as lines in the song and wrap them in a chorus about the absence of touch in the virtual world and the cost of getting back to normal.

Written as we approached 100 days of Coronavirus/Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. I tried to capture a series of images as lines in the song and wrap them in a chorus about the absence of touch in the virtual world and the cost of getting back to normal.

A story about a woman who slides into unfulfilling and unsuccessful relationships by tumbling ‘head over heels’. I tried to get a bit of a latin feel to the song to mirror the trip to Spain described therein. One day I might redo the vocals, which I never got quite right.

This song is about hope and despair. I have tried to record a version with more power and grandeur. So, as much a learning exercise in performance and recording as it was in songwriting.

It really does happen – I woke up with this song in my head. I got my iPad out and developed the lyric sitting in bed. The theme is the collision of grief and love. In this case a woman’s grief providing a window of access for an admirer.

I was reading ‘ Climate Change and the Course of Human History’ by John L Brooke and realised that geological time makes you look at things with a different perspective. This song is about people reacting differently to the same stimulus because their world view is shaped by the here and now.