The wonderful Anna Lee was around Galway yesterday, so she came and joined the family dinner I was having with two of my siblings. After a post-lunch walk on the prom, we came back to my house and listened to some music and caught up a bit. But she offered to work the desk for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'songwriting'
a little recording session
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · lgbt, life, music
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Download: Galway Rain – demo.
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · music
I’ve had the house to myself again today, so after spending a while in town being sociable I came home and spent the evening playing with the cat, cooking dinner, and demoing a song. This song is one that popped up in the video clips from a gig I did in January, so I’ve been [...]
Free Download: Rebel (demo)
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · music
I’m never sure about titles. In fact, I often hate titling songs, and sometimes have short nicknames for songs which is how I refer to them in set lists or whatever. That’s definitely the case with this one. It was nearly called “Running For Miles”, but I’m not too sure about that either. I guess [...]
Free Download: The Bliss Returns (demo)
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · music
The lyrics for this song were actually written back in 2000 or so – a good decade old at least. I never even thought about putting them to music until maybe the last year or so. I was going through old notebooks and sheets of paper, searching for something I wanted to add into another [...]
Free Download: Water Phoenix (demo)
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · music
I knew what I wanted from this song as I wrote it. I knew what I was writing about, and how the song would be structured, more or less. But I was still surprised by the melody that came from the lyrics. Sometimes I can sit and just hear the melody that is meant to [...]
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