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Scream Street Bites

13/6/2016

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Scream Street Bites

I really enjoyed writing the music to these 1-minute Scream Street 'bites' about Dig & Lulu. Based on the storyboards of student competition winners. Enjoy!
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Band of One: The River EP

10/6/2016

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Band of One: The River EP

Release date: 11/06/2016

Available at: all good download stores

Project homepage: Bandcamp

It's that time of year when I release something from Band of One. As the name suggests, this side project is just something I do that's all me, no brief or anything, keeping the song writing muscles exercised and basically trying stuff out for the sake of it.  

Band of One isn't something I actively promote, I'm not signed to a label and I don't have a marketing budget. All I ask is that if you like what you hear then leave a review where you downloaded it from. That helps with the rankings in those stores. Oh, and maybe like the Facebook page / Twitter thingy and share some posts!

So, what's unique about this release? After last year's 'Being Ghosts' album release - a full band 'rock' production - I wanted to do something different. As I've never done an acoustic EP, I thought that could be an interesting thing to try and produce. I did end up adding some other instruments, so I suppose I can claim it to be a mostly-acoustic EP, but I suppose rules are there to be broken eh?
Finally, I sometimes get asked what my songs are about and I almost always fail to explain them properly. So here are some explanations to go with this year's release, along with the instruments I recorded for each song:
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The River


(Acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano, drums, tambourine, hammond, vocals)

Back in the summer of 2013 there was a series of Wednesday evenings where a group of friends gathered on a boat and floated around on the Thames near home. Everyone was going through something and the river was a tonic that soothed. That point in the evening where the sun was nearly down and the water was like a sheet of glass remains one of my favourite things. Add the fact that it was still warm and Pink Floyd was playing on the boat stereo, well, you get the idea.


Learn To Fly

(Guitar thump, hand claps, acoustic guitar, electric bass, 'cello, piano, vocals)

In 2011 I made the enormous leap from teaching to composing music for a living without really considering how to go about it. I was lucky to have a pal who gave me some work initially (thanks Mike), but I didn't really know where I was heading or how to get there. If ever there was a leap of faith this was it for me. So, of course, in the meantime I had doubts and paranoia and inner arguments about whether this career was going work, but (as with most things) the best way to learn how do something is to get on and do it. You can read more about the production of this song here.


Miracles and Accidents

(Acoustic guitar, piano, vocals)

I've learned in the last few years that you can never predict what's around the corner. Sometimes the most rewarding things come from the most unexpected places. So I say celebrate the unexpected.


Cold

(Piano, double bass, vocals, stair case, acoustic guitar)

I recently watched a documentary on Bruce Springsteen who explained that he changed his song writing style early on from writing about himself to making up stories, which gave him endless possibilities. I've always written in a semi-observational way, with my own experiences mixed in with friends, news etc. This song is an attempt to write from imagination rather than experience. Also, it started as the result of a production experiment you can read about here. 


Electric Circus

(Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, drums, tambourine, vocals, piano)

This song was written on a bus (and in a school class room later that same day) while I was doing some supply teaching to supplement the income. It was summer, and Electric Circus is an actual place (and more specifically a bus stop near Surbiton). It's a straight up, breezy pop love song about leaning on someone when life gets too much.

My friend and long time music collaborator Pauly came over one evening to help with the backing vocals.

So that's all for now, hope you enjoy it!

​G
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Everybody Loves A Moose!

8/6/2016

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Everybody Loves A Moose!

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Well, that's what they say anyway...so you know way back in 2013 when I worked on this series and couldn't show anyone anything because it wasn't being broadcast in this country? Well it's now on YouTube!

The show was incredibly fun and ridiculous to make. There'll be more announcements about the travels of our favourite Moose around the world soon, but for now, enjoy!

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