Belgian singer-songwriter Ian Clement takes us inside the music scene of his country’s third-biggest city. Free waffles are not provided....
Monthly Archives: October 2020
The Australian rock band’s keyboardist and songwriter reveals all about his solo EP and new chapter as a country artist...
The Glaswegian songwriter takes us through the creation of his album ‘Bread & Circuses’, complete with tips from Ray Davies...
New music from Nana Adjoa, Tim Burgess, Goldteeth, Kerri Martin, Nubiyan Twist, Halina Rice, Charlie Belle, Marina Massanova and more...
The Northern Irish band’s chief songwriter and guitarist talks us through one of the most iconic songs of its era...
We pick out some wise words from 10 of the fine songwriters who are all featured in our latest issue...
We’re catching the latest sounds of Justin Llamas, Stats, Savannah Pope, Sam Brookes, Winter, Lucy McWilliams, Psyrena, Margot and more...
Frontman Daniel Leopold takes us for a canoe ride through cypress trees as we learn about his most recent single...
Clapham soul man Andrew Roachford on his 30-plus years in the music business, from ‘Cuddly Toy’ to Mechanic and MBE
To celebrate the 80th birthday of an undeniable songwriting genius, we take our pick of a dozen of his finest…...
The Doors’ guitarist explains how the classic song emerged because he felt sorry for the obscure chords that rock’n’roll forgot...
The five-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter sprinkles some of his brilliance over the Great American Songbook. Here, he tells us all about it
Enter MusicGurus' songwriting competition with Guy Chambers
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How I wrote 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega
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How I wrote 'Enola Gay' by OMD's Andy McCluskey
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16 song starters
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How I wrote 'Chasing Rainbows' by Shed Seven's Rick Witter
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How I wrote ‘Beds Are Burning’ by Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst
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How I wrote 'I Alone' by Live's Ed Kowalczyk
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How I wrote 'The Life Of Riley' by The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie
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How I wrote 'I'm Too Sexy' by Right Said Fred
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How I wrote 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapors' David Fenton
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I have been writing songs now for over 40 years and I am not about to stop.
Notebook writing even day
I wrote 'Start a party' for Freedom day and the nightclub scene. It all started with Gary Barlow's course, I am now on the TSA
I have plenty of ideas and try to get one end product at one time! Focus, making, listen to it until I am satisfied with
Continue to build an incredible music catalogue
I have been writing songs privately for the last 5 years, but never recorded any. I almost gave up on recording, and was going to
It's my passion, to be honest.