Author Archives: BJD

Song Week 2025 – Week 27: Recorded at Airtight Studios, Manchester, on July 8th 2025. This version of Train Song is performed by Bernard Dady & Peter O’Hare. Produced by Danny Kehlenbeck & Cam Davey

Song Week 2025 – Week 24: The Northlands was the very first song that I ever submitted to the Song a Week songwriter’s circle, back in April 2021. It was written at the beginning of that month. The video is still on my channel. I have re-recorded it using my improved performance and production skills but you might still prefer the original.

Song Week 2025 – Week 24: The technology we use today was once the stuff of science fiction movies. Its coming to get you…….

Song Week 2025 – Week 21: Are we following preordained paths through our lives or is everything that happens a matter of chance? As long as there have been humans we have wrestled with this question.

Song Week 2025 – Week 20: Sometimes songs just work better stripped back (and a little faster). Version 2 of This Time.

Song Week 2025 – Week 19: Inspired by watching TV and movies about missing people I think. The lyrics just grew out of nothing as I played.

Song Week 2025 – Week 18: I reached the top and had to stop or something akin to that

Song Week 2025 – Week 16: Figures of three female deities stretch back in history for at least 6000 years and they are present in all the lands that gave birth to the Celtic, Germanic and Norse cultures. They were still present hundreds of years later in Anglo-Saxon England, where they were called the Wyrd Sisters (or Nornir in Norse culture). Even the gods were subject to the power of the sisters. Wyrd would roughly translate as destiny or fate. The sisters were believed to sit below the tree of life, which linked the underworld, middle earth (where people lived) and the upperworld. There, they wove the threads of destiny, creating for each of us a life pattern.

Song Week 2025 – Week 14: This quirky little song is about that stage in a young romance when people are still dealing with differences and doubts shortly after falling in love.

Song Week 2025 – Week 12/13: Lord of the Rings is not only rooted in Tolkien’s understanding of early Medieval culture and mythology but also his experience of war and geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Mash that up with history repeating itself and you have ‘The Cold Winds’.