Category: 52 Fridays
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Week 9 – February 28th – Whisper to the Bees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENqyNMXF2sQ I wrote this song yesterday and haven’t really let it sit properly yet, but I was excited by it’s arrival and wanted to record it. My friend Godslove arrived and filmed me playing so it’s a little more interesting than a locked off shot – though my performance is still not dynamic. This is…
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Week 10 – March 7th 2014 – The Bypass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKYVaBwM58 This is indeed a little bit country, and only a little bit rock and roll. With the added thrill of seeing the white sofa in my office. Another song about loss, I’m sorry. Written yesterday. The fact about yesterday is that is would have been my husband’s birthday. That’s what set me off thinking…
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Week 11 – 14 March 2014 – Dare Not To Worry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_o56b–_I A challenge and an upbeat one at that. I saw the quite strange documentary about Marilyn Monroe called Love, Marilyn which uses extracts from her personal writings. Love,Marilyn This sentence jumped out at me. It’s not referred to in the film – just scanned over at the start. I thought it was a great…
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Week 12 – 21 March 2014 – Non-Petty Pilfering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJs4gIWYHSc I was commissioned by the Radio 3 programme The Verb – a cabaret of the word – to write a song for their residency at the Southbank. They asked me to celebrate 52 Fridays by going to the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre and write a song. I went and was struck by…
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Extra…. new version of Ordinary Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y44NeV7EZg The nice people at The Verb chose Ordinary Day to represent the 52 Fridays project. Here is me singing it at the recording. I messed up the mini-instrumental but that will be chopped out of the broadcast. You get to see it.
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Week 13 – 28 March 2014 – Two Mornings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVquZ74jnpE I set myself the challenge to write a “love gone wrong” song. It’s about the feeling just before ending a relationship and the idea of splitting the future back into two. This is obviously a huge power ballad and should be orchestral, with soaring backing vocals and an enormous voice to do it justice,…
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Week 14 – 4 April 2014 – Younger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-czesBUg4 This is about feeling younger than young people – or rather than I did when actually was young – because I feel happier and freer. It’s one of the happiest songs I’ve ever written Here in the city of the young, I feel younger than them, freer than them I pass a girl in…
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Friday 3rd January 2014 – 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCueBQG-RY So in a lighthearted, feel-good, New Year vibe, here is a song about how to outrun depression. I run a lot and it came to me the other day whilst running down a narrow lane, that as a child I was always irritated by cartoon characters who ran and ran across the screen being…
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Week 15 – 11 April 2014 – Sweeping the Ashes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciqgrVY4aDc A song about grief and trying to erase some of the tangible evidence. All true. Lyrics: Sweeping the Ashes The thing that leaves me nonplussed is not that it burns But after all that heat After all that change So much remains I burnt your picture Always loved that picture I still have it…