life
Jazz Festival, more mixing, and a Swede
I’ll be playing a set in the Festival Club at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this October 30th. The time isn’t confirmed as yet, but I’ll update some more about that when I know later on. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually played a gig in Cork before, now that I think about it. I’m [...]
I’m a sucker for songs with choirs.
Seriously, it’s like crack to me. I think I can probably blame my parents for this one quite successfully: my dad has always sung in the local church choir, and my mother introduced us all to the wonderful songwriter Melanie, and this song in particular: It can seem cliché to throw in a choir for [...]
Death of a hard drive
Never the most enjoyable experience, but that is indeed what happened, and my backups weren’t as often as they should have been, so I’ve lost a bucket load of stuff, and I’m currently filling my lovely empty new hard disc up again. I had a lovely moment when the first album I added to my [...]
Unabashedly a fan of musical theatre.
The opening chorus of “Bobby” in this clip gets stuck in my head so much. I’m not majorly well versed in Sondheim’s work, to be perfectly honest, but every time I catch something like this I feel like I should try and catch more performances of his musicals. However, my love of musicals really began [...]
Arrangement attempts.
I’ve begun to notice that I have a few little habits that I fall back on when arranging music for strings, and it irked me today. I don’t think I’m very good at writing string parts and I run the risk of being very one-note when I write fuller arrangements for my songs. The piano [...]