The Dorset-based family festival extravaganza is back for 2024, with another packed line-up and activities uniting music, creativity and fun...
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Enjoy a weekend at Rugby’s Draycote Hotel for “a micro-music-festival celebrating really good songs and the folks who write ’em.”...
Paul Hartnoll shares a playlist of songs that inspired him and Phil to form the electronic duo and leave home...
The feelgood pop rocksters’ frontman and songwriter fills us in on their new album and his foray into musical theatre...
The pop starlet reflects on her sibling-inspired rise, reveals a “filthy” lyric-writing tactic, and explains how motherhood changed her songwriting...
The artist formerly known as Terence Trent D’Arby recalls how his 1987 hit single was inspired by a dream…about Sade...
Get to know the winner of our latest songwriting competition: a New Jersey-based, Maryland-born songwriter with an alternative soul-rock sound...
The duo reveal the evolution of their 90s chart-topper from a Stonesy guitar riff to euphoric piano and brass-driven dance-pop...
James Di Salvio and Steve “Liquid” Hawley of the Montreal collective recall the genesis of their genre-defying 90s hit single...
From Berklee to Nashville and beyond, Michael Conrad reflects on the journey and creative process behind his new musical project...
The Clapham soul man reveals how his breakthrough pop hit was inspired by the seductive charms of a Garfield plushy...
The Canadian trio’s main man on their creative process and 13-year journey from debut single to brand new album ‘Salt’...
How we wrote 'Kryptonite' by 3 Doors Down's Brad Arnold
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Song Deconstructed: 'Wild Geese' by Tessa Rose Jackson
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How I wrote 'Mad World' by Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabal
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How we wrote ‘Big In Japan’ by Alphaville
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How I wrote Art Garfunkel's 'Bright Eyes' by Mike Batt
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How I wrote 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapors' David Fenton
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How I wrote ''74-'75' by The Connells
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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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How I wrote 'Zombie' by The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan
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