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Can a follow up album that’s been 17 years in the waiting ever live up to the weight of expectation?...
We speak with the renowned American Football frontman about his latest album as Owen and his confessional approach to writing...
Yet another glorious example of the thriving lo-fi scene can be heard on punk duo Actual Crimes’ excellent new EP...
On debut album ‘A Dream Outside’, London quartet Gengahr set themselves up to be alt-rock’s next darlings. Or do they?...
Bristol’s Alimony Hustle may be newcomers but they’re all ready to make a name for themselves on their debut single...
Yellow Streak sees the aptly named quartet Simmer nodding towards emo’s early 90s legends and succeeding as they do so...
On ‘Sweet Jubilee’, the frostily named Bristol group Nanook Of The North meld together ambling indie-rock melodies and post-rock atmospherics ristol-based...
The Hush Now provide a very worthy addition to the canon of creatively curious emo with the rather fine ‘Memos’...
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 'The Life Of Riley' by The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie
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How I wrote ‘Save Tonight’ by Eagle-Eye Cherry
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How I wrote 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapors' David Fenton
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How I wrote 'I Alone' by Live's Ed Kowalczyk
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How I wrote ‘Beds Are Burning’ by Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst
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How I wrote 'Food For Thought' by UB40's Robin Campbell
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How I wrote 'Missing You' by John Waite
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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.