Tag Archives: #songaweek2021

Happy Christmas everyone! Special Christmas post featuring this year’s offering: I’m Going to Lapland plus my Christmas Songs from previous years.

Song a Week 2022: Week 48 Happy Christmas everyone! Special Christmas post featuring Christmas Song (Just Another Day) plus those from the previous years.

Song a Week 2021: Disrupted travel, coming back from where I’ve been.

Song a Week 2021: Week 52 I am intrigued by the space between history and myth. This piece consists of four songs (and a reprise) that explore the Great North Road in the UK. The road has meandered its way north between London and Edinburgh since before Roman times. Like a river it has taken different routes and has more recently been tamed by modern road building.

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 I have been reading The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre and this song has been inspired by that book.

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 Happy Christmas!

‘The Fairy on Top of the Tree’ is here. On the one hand this is a pantomime song and meant to be comedic. It was written about a grumpy, Christmas fairy who suffers with vertigo. However, the humour is deliberately dark and the lyrics comment on people fulfilling roles that they are not comfortable with and those at the top of the tree who know they might fall. ………. Feel free to share!

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 Out Monday December 13th

Happy Christmas everyone! ‘The Fairy on Top of the Tree’ will go live on You Tube on Monday December 13th at 9am. Meanwhile let me entertain you with 2019 and 2020’s songs ………. Feel free to share!

Song a Week 2021: Week 49 A plea for help in love and life. (Next week its Christmas song time!)

Song a Week 2021: Week 48 I am a child of the 1960s. Just finished watching Peter Jackson’s edit of The Beatles ‘Get Back’ in its entirety. Thought I’d try to write a song ‘in the style of’. Turned out sort of 1963 era pop rock.

Song a Week 2021: Week 47 This song is a hybrid created by weaving together different stimuli. I started with the chord sequence which leads with Am on the verse and F# on the chorus. Hence, the intended pun in the title. Having set up the title I then added a dollop of Jane Austen and a memory of the joy of reading books in bed, late Sunday morning, when I was a boy.