Author Archives: BJD

Song Week 2025 – Week 9 This is the second ‘storyboard’ for a musical/concept album based on Tess of the ‘dUrbervilles. Not sure where its going to end up! This is the scene where Tess is dancing on the green with the other young women of Marlott and where she first meets Angel Clare. I have used the Priest as both the forger of Tess’s destiny and narrator. This consists of two simple folk tunes, largely instrumental. Act 1 Scene 2.

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.