Category Archives: bjdsongs 2021

Song a Week 2022 – Week 33: The tale of a man who fell in love with a supermodel, only to find out that cover girls are not always what they seem. Some blues rock this week.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 32: A song about separation and reconcilliation. A lesson learnt in isolation and solitude.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 31: I worked on a creating a prog metal sound, constructing the drum, bass and guitar tracks using sample loops. I then overlaid the keyboard, which is mainly pads with the string section in the middle. The words come from a BBC news story about the shadow army of partisans resisting Russian occupation in Kherson, Ukraine but the song is more generally about the futility of military occupation in the face of local resistance.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 30: Two ideas: firstly, that we are all formed of the stuff of stars and secondly, the journey of life. Something of a spiritual journey.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 29: A kind of reflective love song about either getting back together or starting over with someone new.

Performance of my song Tell Me Everything, with Peter on guitar and Graeme on drums! At the Smile Bar and Venue Live Lounge July 6th 2022.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 28: An instrumental piece alluding to the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata, which straddled the western coast of present day Scotland and the east coast of northern Ireland, reaching its zenith in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 27: A story about achieving a lifelong dream at great personal expense. We meet our protaganist as a child, young astronaut and the first man on Mars.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 26: When times are hard, intolerance, injustice and selfishness manifest themselves. Extremists exploit suffering, politics becomes more extreme. This is a song about digging in and being resilient to those forces.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 25: Inspired by ‘the song of the week theme’ I created a wavy piano piece and then added a simple poem as the lyric. A rusting corrugated iron roof, with words painted white and facing the sky.