Songwriting on the move
Well I suppose songwriting isn't really a 9 to 5 kind of job... I find songs and the urge to write floating in and out of me all the time. Sometimes I wake up having dream't a melody. Musical ideas always find me, whatever the time or location. It's also those pure first moments that are the most precious, so you have to catch them when they come, wherever you are and whatever you're doing...
Recently I was on holiday in the lovely historic town of Rye and I felt the beginnings of something.... inspired in part by the drive and the town. So I had to get writing, that meant me walking around town humming and singing into my little recorder and writing lyrics on the lunch table! So I thought I'd share the scene with you - it's an idea for a song I'm writing called Teapot Island... melody written while walking around Rye, and words written on the lunch table at Webbes Fish Café!
Don't worry, I didn't eat the lobsters, although I'm sure someone else did...
Writing:
Words:
Crucial Ingredients for writing while on holiday (beer and lobsters)
I'm not really worried about trying to be perfect all the time anymore. i'm leaving that behind. i'm looking for meaning and can hardly find it. i seem to be wallowing in a lot of hip hop and rap because it seems the most honest music out there at the moment. I'm so bored by 'guitar' bands and the pop music that is around right now. I never thought guitar music would bore me, but it does at the moment. it's all so unoriginal. it's a great 3 minute rush and then you almost feel dirty when you realise how shallow it is. but a great message, SOUL, feeling is something you can't knock. that's why bands like Biffy Clyro and Kings Of Leon can do 'guitar' music and still sound amazing live. because it is about feeling, giving and feeling, not about the pedal you use.
