Eight local songwriters, including Roger Cook and Beki Bondage, tell the stories behind some of our home city’s classic songs...
Autumn 2018
Articles
Songwriting Magazine Autumn’s album of the issue is the fifth solo long-player from the former Verve frontman, released on RPA/BMG...
This rising Irish alt-country singer and songwriter draws on Johnny Cash and Beck to explore the fleeting nature of life...
A choice selection of our recent interviewees reveal the seminal albums that have inspired them the most over the years...
The Dorset singer-songwriter journals a week of writing, mixing and taking a trip to a farm in search of inspiration...
The acclaimed songwriter explains how the song ended up soundtracking a famous Coca-Cola TV ad and became a million-selling hit...
Inspired by his dad’s love of cars, The Darkness frontman hit the overdrive button to launch his rock band’s career...
Drawing on his experience of writing and directing a full staged musical, Steve Kopandy shares his advice on crafting songs...
One-third of Motown hitmaking trio Holland-Dozier-Holland explains how to create the perfect collaborative environment and write songs as a team...
Our regular contributor, performing songwriter and singing coach, Lisa Redford, shares her favourite vocal warm-up techniques to get you going...
The singer from British indie rock group Maxïmo Park talks us through the items that he can’t possibly live without...
The ‘father of Italian blues’ waxes lyrical about his great friend and frequent collaborator; the lead singer of U2, Bono...
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