So finally got round to re-recording the song – there is an early recording elsewhere on this website. I knew I wanted to add more orchestration and am happy with the outcome! I had an idea of adding a string quartet,like in Yesterday, but pivoted from that and included synth and piano All of this …
(Click on the play arrow above to hear the song) So, this is a soppy love song. I wrote it for Cathy after she said “yes” and it is about our first meeting and first date. Okay. Enough of the soppy stuff! It’s a bit of a hybrid, as it has elements of funk, Everly …
So I have taken a break over the last 6 months and done very little musically. Over New Year I decided to try to orchestrate and record a song that I wrote some three years ago. It was one of those songs that comes very easily. An idea comes to you, a guitar riff, …
I have one of my daughters, Eleanor, to thank for this song. I had been playing the guitar riff for a while and we were sitting in the kitchen one day. There was a door that was rarely used in the kitchen. It looked out onto a wall and a house and the light would …