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Above the Fold

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I don’t often post twice in one day, but I’ve been having technical issues with Soundcloud, which have just been resolved, so before it all goes pear-shaped again, thought I would post this, that […]

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The Myth of the Isolated Artist

Audioblog – Please click here The isolated artist is a myth. Impossible. (If you have evidence to the contrary, do tell) It is only by talking to other artists that you develop. (Talking to non-artists is good too, but a […]

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Purring Among the Shards

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The plate spinning was a useful metaphor. What I’m finding interesting is the smashed plate and how I end up seeing it…. And how others see it… “Oh you must be terribly disappointed? No Jerwood […]

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Plate Spinning

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here No one told me that being a freelance self-employed artist would be a profession akin to circus plate-spinner! I have previously spoken of that in-limbo feeling… this is a little like that, but active rather […]

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Music is a torch…

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here A song can elicit a much more immediate emotional response than a piece of visual art. I’ve said before that as an artist performing a live song, that immediate response, even if a polite […]

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A Different Sort of Comfort Blanket

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I passed my sketchbook on to Dan for him to look at and respond to a little while back. What this means is there is no cohesive way for me to pin down the […]

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Launching the New Me?

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s been a very exciting year… And it’s not over yet! When I fill in the evaluation form for the Arts Council, does anyone know if there’s a section for Gobsmackery? I’ve done things […]

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Cause and Effect

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here People have said to me “I don’t know how you get time to blog when you are so busy!” Other bloggers have said to me that when they are busy they have no time […]

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Songs as Sculpture

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here   I’ve been listening to the songs a lot, obviously, as they are playing into the gallery. I’ve also been reflecting on live performance of the same songs. The differences in process fascinate me, and […]

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Trust

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I suppose I take the nature of the visual artists I know for granted. They are supportive and encouraging… thank you all. However, the visual art that I have made doesn’t require the trust of […]

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Sex and Karaoke

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Another studio session… doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? A bar has opened at the other end of Birdcage Walk. It is very busy, good for them! Although I am rather disturbed by the […]

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Circadian and Other Rhythms

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Exhausted. The body clock thing is completely confused. Circadian rhythms have become a cacophony to be likened to that outside Farmfoods on a Saturday afternoon. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle has its ups, but this […]

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Released into the wild…

  ok folks… not so many words just a song… and credit where credit is due: Lyrics: Elena Thomas Music: Simon Coverdale Vocal: Elena Thomas Acoustic Guitar: Simon Coverdale Electric guitar: Dan Whitehouse Bass: Dave Sutherland Production: Dan Whitehouse   […]

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Authenticity: True is Better Than Good

  AUDIOBLOG- Please click here I wrote my first song at the end of 2010, with a lot of help from Dan Whitehouse. Songwriting is still a fresh and new thing for me. If any of you have read my […]

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Challenging the Grid

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Having said all I need is a mic and a macbook, Dan arrived on the first recording day with what seemed like a truck-load of stuff crammed tetris-style into the back of a Nissan […]

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Recording the first songs

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s happening fast, now we’ve started, so it is hard to know where to start! Two days of recording then… I want to try to get down what I’ve learned as I go along. This […]

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Imperceptible Growth

  AUDIO BLOG – Please click here Forgive me if you already know this story, but a few people recently have asked how I met Dan Whitehouse…. and the story has grown recently. So it’s a story of serendipity and […]

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Two out of Nine

I have written a song about domestic violence. I worry about it though. I think it could be a good one. I think also that it could be an important inclusion in the final nine. So it had better be […]

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The Prophecy

  I wrote this a couple of days ago, and have been wondering and pondering whether to post it. It seems a bit prophetic, rather than my usual “reaction+thoughts” type posts. In the end, it is exactly for that reason […]

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Noise, white and otherwise

Right then. Yesterday I watched some of my Songwriting Circle buddies perform as part of the mac birmingham (their lower case trendy insistence, not mine) open day for the new term’s courses. I could have joined in, but chose not […]

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Play on…

One thing I used to do on a fairly regular basis on this blog was tell you what I was listening to. I notice I have been so busy showing off what I’ve been recording and writing that I haven’t […]

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Old Work/New Work

On a whim, I decided to listen to my “back catalogue” of about 10 recorded songs. Some have been recorded properly, with proper microphones, real instruments and a decent producer who knows what he’s doing with my weird and wonderful […]

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