03 October 2011
We’re up to track four in my series of “song-by-song” posts. This one started in the shower, where there are many good melodies to be found. I think the first couple of lines came first, and that basically set up the structure to the whole song: “…
30 September 2011
This was one of the last songs I wrote for the album, and it was probably one of the quickest to write. I should really have been doing something else, but I grabbed my guitar. The house was quiet, and I started strumming this little riff. Pretty …
29 September 2011
This is the second post in a series of song by song posts about the new album. On the way two and from gigs, I quite often have Radio 4 on – I tend to listen to more speech than music these days in the car – and this gig was no exception. I was on…
24 September 2011
This is first in a series of “song by song” posts about songs on my new album “While we sleep tonight” Why not have a listen as you read: Coming up by Paul Bell I can’t have been the only one to find the drama of the miners in Chile to be a really…
21 September 2011
The August bank holiday seems like a long time ago now, as I sit here on a cool September afternoon. It seemed like a good moment to reflect on a summer of festival gigs. This year was my first proper appearance at Greenbelt festival (having appea…
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