Author Archives: BJD

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.

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.

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.

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.