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Demo: Is This What They Call Romance?

This song was previously demo’d about a year ago, and even shoddier than this demo I’m posting today, but nonetheless, the song has come together more in my head, and I’ve a clearer idea of it now than I did 12 months ago. It’s a cute little pop song that kept popping into my head in different bits and pieces, that all came together on the piano at one point. It has a jauntiness that makes me smile, and although I think I really intended on making it quite a musically simple song, it hops back and forth between two keys instead. Oh well, that’s what I get for intentionally trying to write something simple and straight forward. It seems that when I try to write something more complex, I end up using two or three chords!

Nevertheless, I like this little tune. I fuck up the piano, as I’m wont to do, and I probably go off key too, which is my other little issue when I’m recording myself. I really hate recording myself. Just thought I’d put that out there.

But yeah, this song is about liking someone you should really like in that way at all, but you know, you can’t really help who you fall for sometimes can you? I kinda like the gender-fuck in the lyrics, and it was intentional.

Is This What They Call Romance? [demo] by misterebby

(lyrics after the jump)

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Demo: Rebel

I re-demo’d this song before Xmas, while taking a break from working on a different demo. It’s just a simple little song. The lyrics were written way back when I was a teenager, and are about a friend I had back then. I didn’t write the music until about two years ago or so, when I came across some of my old school stuff again, and discovered those lyrics amongst a batch of other, wonderfully embarrassing, songs and lyrics.

But I have a fondness for the song, though it’s fleshed out a lot more in my mind than what I ever record of it, and it’s one of the few songs I’ve written that are about or for a specific person. I’ve written about this song before, when I posted an older demo

Rebel [demo] by misterebby

(lyrics re-posted after the jump)
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NYE in Cork with Meadhbh

I’m reposting this here from my facebook, because I can’t face doing my “review of the year: 2010” just yet. I have a feeling I didn’t do one last year either. They’re rather sporadic, and usually happen on LJ.

  • Someone wearing lettuce as a hat.
  • a straight boy deciding to prove he wasn’t homophobic by kissing me. Thrice.
  • 5am impromptu music session
  • dumplings
  • “some like it hot”
  • jake gyllenhaal’s arse
  • That feeling when you go to a gay bar where you know nobody, and no-one knows you.
  • random friendly cork gays, and lovely twitter folk.
  • People wanting a go on Damien’s cigar. Not a double entendre.
  • the middle-aged woman in the fabulous outfit who bonded with me over some other random guy complimenting both of us, “he liked my dress! he did! and your trousers! he did! And he liked my dress!”
  • “do ye do chips?”. They did. And doughnuts.
  • Meadhbh’s straight guy admirer on Barrack St at 4am in the great coat
  • “I work at apple, you know? Do you know apple?” but her swiss boyfriend was handsome, so we’ll let it slide.
  • Discovering that Meadhbh’s idea of food shopping is buying toilet roll, bed sheets and olive oil. She’s a prostitute.

I should also add, that most of the conversation between us on NYE was done in the vein of Katie’s Corner. It was that kind of day.

Nollaig shona daoibh

I really love Thea Gilmore’s “Strange Communion” – it’s not only one of my favourite “holiday” albums, but it’s a really wonderful collection of songs, regardless of the winter/christmas themes.

I wanted to do some kind of little “seasons greetings” message of sorts, and the best way I know how is through music. This song has been in my head a lot this week, what with the solstice, full moon and lunar eclipse, and the snow and wintry weather here in Ireland for once. So, I decided to do a rough little cover of it on piano. This is Thea Gilmore’s “Midwinter Toast”:

Nollaig shona, agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir freisín.

(you can hear it on soundcloud too, and download it from there if you like too.)

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