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volcano

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So… I took my little ol’ moleskine pad to Africa to get a bit of inspiration.  Then a volcano explodes and I am stranded! 

Anyway… I got a lot of ideas for song lyrics and I actually wrote an entire song – in my head.  I have jotted the bare bones down but I’ve now got to try and frantically get it recorded!  It is going to be special!

Oh, and very importantly… I have come up with a name for the album.  I’ll keep it a secret for the moment.

I have so much to report on.  This blog will likely go into overdrive over the next few days!

new song added

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I’ve added a new song to the album.  It is called The Legend, the Icon, the God.  It is a song with a couple of different themes.  The first is embracing new music – trying to fuse every kind of noise into a single entity.  The second theme is trying to set the feeling of being on top of the world to music.  Those moments when you feel like you can take on anyone.  When you know you’re right!

moleskine notepad

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Okay, I’m a bit of a weird one.  Was watching Columbo the other day and I thought “I must have a little notebook like his to jot ideas in”.  And now I have one.  A little Moleskine one with the elastic band and everything.  Lovely little thing.

Will keep it in my back pocket and jot lyrics down as they come to me.  Have already started and got a few crackers.  This will hopefully enable me to finish some of the countless songs floating about in my head.  I currently have about eight songs on the go at the same time in the studio.  I shall hopefully be finishing them and posting them up over the course of this year.  I will get this CONFESSION OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL album finished.

I am a perfectionist and only the best will do.  Even when a song is finished and posted it does not mean it necessarily makes the album.  Any feedback about which songs you do and don’t like will be most appreciated!!!

colour my grey sky

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Have been messing about with this song all day.  Just made some minor changes which no-one will ever notice… but I know they’re there!

It’s still not really what I would ever call a complete song.  But it has certainly got some worth.  And it kind of brings a tear to my eye – surely that’s all you can ever ask for.

time

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Finding the time.  The age-old dilemma.

Hoping to get a couple of things done tomorrow.  Gonna try to remix a couple of tunes and get a new one on the go.

I still have a real epic on the back-burner.  It is a monster tune but I haven’t yet finished the lyrics.  I do however finally have a title… PLAY.  You heard it here first.  It may take a while (read years) longer to complete but it is going to be huge.  Similar in style (at the moment) to the comedy is over, but with an even bigger hook, and with even less structure.  CONFESSION OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL is my outlet to inflict this kind of torment on you.  I’ve just gotta get on with it rather than watch Masterchef! 😉

doctor who

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So, that was the new doctor who tonight. Consensus on the interweb so far seems to be “whoopie, it’s great”.

Well, I wasn’t convinced. Hmmm, what have they done to the theme tune over the years? How did we get to this? The theme tune was one of the great electro tunes on tv. Seems those days have gone. And I hate to say it, but FAR TOO MUCH BLOODY BOMBAST OF MUSIC in EVERY, SINGLE scene! Sometimes silence is golden… and that comes from a die-hard wall of sound merchant!

Great assistant though!

Tinkering with some new songs. I should have them up and ready soon. The album is certainly taking shape.

colour my grey sky

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Just spent the evening playing around with an idea.  It is just a single line, repeated over and over like a mantra.  Just me and my guitar.  Played live.   I thought it would be another piece of a song for my ever expanding scrapbook – I have a selection of ideas that I then go back and work on.  But no… this one actually sounds like it could be something, on its own.  No verse, no chorus, no hook, no anything.  It’s not played or sung perfectly either.  Just a scrap.  But it sounds sweet… to me.  I reckon it might be a contender for album closer (after the ‘proper’ album closer the comedy is over).