Song Week 2025 – Week 8 Worried that I may end up spending a whole year writing songs bemoaning the current state of our planet and its politics, I have decided to return to a project which I began back in the 1980s. Whilst quite poorly and unable to work for many months I wrote the lyrics for a musical based on Tess of the d’Urbervilles. I am going to focus on this for a while.
Author Archives: BJD
A Fishy Business
Song Week 2025 – Week 7 I wanted to write a song in the style of Pete Atkin’s ‘Master of the Revels’ (1973). The fish are allegorical. It is naturally political and a statement about being helplessly trapped between the world’s most powerful men.
Nothing You Can Say
Song Week 2025 – Week 6 Both sonic and video experimentation this week. Firstly, I have produced a song in a more folksy/acoustic genre. Its about breaking free from claustrophobic relationships or situations. Secondly, I have tried making a video using AI animation.
Exposure
Song Week 2025 – Week 5 The prompt was ‘Roll Tape’. My brain connected with video tape in a TV studio and from there to a fictional sex scandal involving a politician. It has echoes of the Profumo Affair in the 1960s but is really about history repeating itself. They never learn.
The Rural Idyll
Song Week 2025- Week 4 A song about an idealised view of country life, echoes of family holidays and a reflection on freedom from urban drudgery
Off The Rails
Song a Week 2025 Week 2/3: The song did not start of as being political and it may not be. The video is. A bit of funky, progressive pop
Don’t Start this Now
Song a Week 2025 Week1: A song about our world at the start of 2025. Experimenting with a blend of synth and guitar sounds. An 80s sound I think but I didn’t manage a chorus.
The Future Is Yours
Song a Week 2024 Week 53: an inter-generational dialogue
Empty Space (2024 Remix)
Song Week 2024 – Week 49 A song about never being in the limelight or at the forefront. The lost aspiration of youth. Quite frankly depressing but an experiment in electronica.
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