music
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 [...]
Inspiration: Joni Mitchell
This is one of my favourite Joni Mitchell songs, and I stumbled across this live version from 1970 on youtube today while searching out more performances from this BBC In Concert series. The entire concert is collected here, if you fancy losing yourself to some wonderful live solo performances from a talented songwriter on the [...]
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 [...]
Studio Days: week 6
The last little pieces of the recording plan fell into place this week, as I got a double bass player, and some of the additional vocalists into the studio. I’m spending a few days not listening to anything now, so I can go back with fresh ears and hear what I’ve done over the 11 [...]
Game Of Thrones theme tune
I got completely hooked on Game Of Thrones, and I really have to say that I love the theme music for it. There’s a slew of wonderful covers of it doing the rounds on youtube these days, but this one is perhaps my favourite: It’s such a beautiful melody.