Author Archives: BJD

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 I have been reading The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre and this song has been inspired by that book.

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 Happy Christmas!

‘The Fairy on Top of the Tree’ is here. On the one hand this is a pantomime song and meant to be comedic. It was written about a grumpy, Christmas fairy who suffers with vertigo. However, the humour is deliberately dark and the lyrics comment on people fulfilling roles that they are not comfortable with and those at the top of the tree who know they might fall. ………. Feel free to share!

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 Out Monday December 13th

Happy Christmas everyone! ‘The Fairy on Top of the Tree’ will go live on You Tube on Monday December 13th at 9am. Meanwhile let me entertain you with 2019 and 2020’s songs ………. Feel free to share!

Song a Week 2021: Week 49 A plea for help in love and life. (Next week its Christmas song time!)

Song a Week 2021: Week 48 I am a child of the 1960s. Just finished watching Peter Jackson’s edit of The Beatles ‘Get Back’ in its entirety. Thought I’d try to write a song ‘in the style of’. Turned out sort of 1963 era pop rock.

Song a Week 2021: Week 47 This song is a hybrid created by weaving together different stimuli. I started with the chord sequence which leads with Am on the verse and F# on the chorus. Hence, the intended pun in the title. Having set up the title I then added a dollop of Jane Austen and a memory of the joy of reading books in bed, late Sunday morning, when I was a boy.

Song a Week 2021: Week 46 Antidisestablishmentarianism is the resistance to disestablishmentarianism, the 19th century movement to remove the Church of England as the official State religion. The relationship between the Church and State in England has a long history. It persists to this day through the establishment: the monarch; parliament and the church.

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.