Song Week 2024 – Week 29: With hindsight I think I have been exploring an idea for a TV theme here. As I have been reading espionage thrillers recently, the idea of spider webs and trapped spies crept into my subconscious. The result is an instrumental, partly rooted in appreciation of nature and partly the world of espionage.
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When
Song Week 2024 – Week 29 These words just came into my head after the UK General Election 2024. Can’t think why.
Summer Was My Lover
Song Week 2024 – Week 28 1. A song about a romance with a woman called Summer (fictional it did not happen), or 2. A song about our current lost summer (its raining all the time), or 3. A song about the loss of the best days of our life.
Why?
Song Week 2024 – Week 27 A short and simple song this week. Interpret it as you will.
The Cobweb Songstress & The Old Wild Men (Live)
Song Week 2024 – Week 26 This is an older song performed at the Smile Bar, Live Lounge in Huddersfield – June 26th 2024
Where?
Song Week 2024 – Week 25: An instrumental.
You Never Listened to My Advice
Song Week 2024 – Week 23: An alternative rock/pop song based upon the prompt ‘Warning Shot’. Very simply a warning to those who do not respect either themselves or others.
Gravity (Isaac’s Last Words) – Live
Song Week 2024 – Week 22: SIn 2021 I was challenged through the Song a Week group to write a song based on the prompt ‘famous last words’. I chose Issac Newton’s and wrote a lyric which is a mash up of phrases in those last words. By definition it is a song about dying but more importantly about acknowledging that our lives are too short to discover all there is to know. Performed with Peter May 2024.
A Lyrical Decline
Song Week 2024 – Week 17: Song lyrics really are becoming simpler and more repetitive, according to a study published on 28/03/24. Lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the last 40 years.
Exactly Nowhere
Song Week 2024 – Week 14: A grungy bit of pop rock about separation and inertia.
