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My life has been pretty bland, I'm not a romantic nor full of angst, I'm no poet and I am not a good people watcher.
So I end up writing the most contrite, cliche riddled dross imaginable.
Much prefer to write with a lyricist
Wrote 17 songs, co-wrote 2 others for the band I formed at university. Then formed a duo, discovered cassette 4-track machines and rattled off 15 songs throughout the 90s, with about 4-5 songs not quite finished. The same duo reformed as an electronic synth-pop duo and we’ve written and recorded about 8 songs, although my partner-in-crime came up with the original ideas for those (I had plenty of input though). Between these two episodes I wrote and recorded 5-6 instrumental post-rock pieces. I’ve never written lyrics though, I need a sidekick to put words to my musical ideas.
Between all this there is a cassette mini-album, a 4-track 7” vinyl ep, a 7” single with the same track on both sides (no, really), a handful of contributions to vinyl eps, cassette-only compilations, two CD compilations, and a single on orange vinyl. In the spring there will be a bandcamp/small cd run release of the 90s indie jangly stuff.
I’m quite pleased with that though, as they are absolutely brilliant.
I'm closer to Nick Lowe in productivity and approach. I wrote three decent songs last year and haven't even recorded demos of them.
I write very little these days but I take the same creative satisfaction from finding and arranging traditional songs.
I'm really unprolific I love music and writing, but I don't write songs or fiction which I think is because I just don't seem to have any stories in me.
When I've written songs it's typically been in collaboration with others who have the spark of things that we can work on, but since I was last in an originals band about 15 years ago now I've barely written anything. I don't think I find guitar an inspiring instrument to write with.
I've recently bought a Circuit Tracks which has led to me creating a bunch of stuff, but it's mostly just ideas and beats rather than full songs.
But then I have written a novel of 70,000 words. That's out in the summer hopefully.
How did you approach going from first draft to finished product?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/verse-chorus-verse/id1071781597?i=1000380718168
By about the eighth full edit, I brought in beta readers to view the opening three chapters. I picked one guy for whom English is a second language. Just to see if he got it.
Then last autumn I did my legal compliances. My principle villain is from Barnsley and boasts of having once been in a brawl with Biff Byford from Saxon. All while singing along to Wheels of Steel in a car. So that took some time getting permission from Biff through his managers. But he's a good sport. I had to show him the context of him being mentioned. But he liked it.
At the moment it's with a freelance editor. I just want fresh eyes on it before it's locked and goes to print layout.