Song a Week 2023 – Week 13: Challenged to write a song about ‘unmasked dancing’ I wrote a dance song about unmasking the dancer, a seductress who is not who she appears to be.
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The Liger That Stood There
Song a Week 2023 – Week 12: A liger is the off-spring of a male lion and female tiger. They grow to be the largest of the big cats. This is a song about self-esteem and achieving personal success.
Fall Out in a Japanese Garden
Song a Week 2023 – Week 11: A long song in five parts (including the reprise of part 1). The story of a relationship break up which rips our narrator away from a Japanese garden and into the darkness and despair of the city streets. WARNING: This is NOT a love song.
A Country with No Name
Song a Week 2023 – Week 3: Something simple and bluesy this week. Performed live to camera. A perspective on attitudes to refugees. Song 95 of my 100 songs in 100 weeks challenge.
Talk
Song a Week 2023 – Week 2: Gone a bit Gary Numan this week. The song is about reckless political talk but the video sees this through the eyes of robots.
Begin Again
Song a Week 2023 – Week 1: This week experimenting with a new genre, a new midi keyboard and new music software.
The Last Song of the Year
Song a Week 2022 – Week 52: At the back of my mind was an image of an Ukrainian soldier leaving his loved one to return to the war but the song is more generally about seasonal renewal.
Hey Judas! (aka The Urban Alligator Song)
Song a Week 2022 – Week 51: A bit of nonsense or a commentary on the UK government in 2022? Oh! That was a bit of nonsense (and not funny). With Peter O’Hare on guitar.
Darkness and Dreams
Song a Week 2022 – Week 50: Woven from memory of bad childhood dreams and an impending sense of losing a loved one.
Déjà vu
Song a Week 2022 – Week 49: Ever had that feeling that you have been here before?
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