Song and a Chat
277 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago -Be entertained with a song and an extended chat, ranging from off the cuff banter/ humour to life observations and song analysis.
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Revolving Door
July 14, 2024 00:50 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBEpisode #213: Revolving Door (Song starts at 5:42) I’d completely forgotten about song #453, from 1999, Revolving Door. Well, it isn’t 1999 now! The years have certainly whizzed by. The great thing about being a songwriter (or doing any creative activity) is, it gets you ‘in the moment’ - the moment where your sense of self is put a side somehow. You are so focussed on your art, you’ve let go completely. In that moment you’re inspired. A song becomes a document of a series of moments like th...
New World Dawning
June 23, 2024 04:04 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBEpisode #212: New World Dawning (Song starts at 6:22) I really enjoyed writing song #207, New World Dawning, back in 1992. The lines ‘I never thought I’d cry tears You can buy at the chemist’ Were never going to shake the foundations of anyone’s world, but that was my opening gambit (I was talking about the saline solution I used with my contact lenses). Undeterred, I carried on. The words came and they lead on to an expansive sort of a world view. A world that felt like it was yet to exist:...
Got Away On Me Again
June 17, 2024 12:44 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBEpisode #211: Got Away On Me Again (song starts at 4:02). Welcome to another episode. Picture me sitting at my piano, with the microphone on. Before me I have my songbooks. I’ve picked out a song Got Away On Me Again (Song # 663, written in 2017). Yes, I have a song to sing, which is nice to be able to present and talk about. I’ve written quite a few over the years. It’s nice to have them up my sleeve. The real pleasure has been the time spent creating them. There’s a line in the this song....
Forever
June 09, 2024 00:43 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBEpisode #210: Forever (Song starts at 4:20) I went outside tonight, just before I recorded this episode. The stars are incredible aren’t they? Infinite. Makes you realise how insignificant we are, really. I like to think we all count. We all made up part of the universe. Those sorts of big thoughts are the sorts of things I was thinking when I wrote Forever, song#85. It was 1988. I had a gig at the ski fields in New Zealand. I was playing the piano and singing in the evenings. Apart from thi...
A Certain Kind Of
June 02, 2024 05:02 - 30 minutes - 21 MBEpisode #209: A Certain Kind Of (Song starts at 4:41 ) This song, #213, is in a different style to the piano vocal ones that have made up the bulk of the songs featured on this podcast. It was written in 1992 by myself and with Paul Dredge on guitar. So it’s a guitar + voices song. Writing with Paul, when we are in the same room, is great fun. Having had a brief chat about the lyrics, what sort of mood style might suit, Paul will start playing a riff or some chords on his acoustic guitar. I...
Country Gentleman Jack
May 25, 2024 04:59 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBEpisode #208: Country Gentleman Jack (song starts at 4:30) Back in 1993, I was the piano man at Wairakei resort, in New Zealand’s north island, near Taupo - beautiful place. Outside of my regular entertainment in the restaurant hours, I wrote songs like this one: Country Gentleman Jack, song #319. As part of the contract, I was also hired to play piano vocal music for conventions. One particular calm winters evening, I found myself in the scene, playing away, equal parts lost in the music and...
Better Late Than Never
May 11, 2024 23:25 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBEpisode #207: Better Late Than Never (Song starts at 4:30) This song (#659), came about back in 2017. I was on my way to work and there was a bit of difficulty getting there, due to the public transport not exactly running smoothly. I was off to teach piano for the day ( I’ve been a piano teacher now for probably about 15 years. I teach as a contractor in a primary school. I teach 24 private lessons in 2 fairly intense days (I’m working steadily on video courses. More on this later). Anyw...
Whirlpool
April 29, 2024 10:37 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBEpisode #206: Whirlpool (Song starts at 5:20) I enjoyed recording a demo for this episode. It’s such good fun when I do this. It occurs to me as I write these show notes, it’s been a great way to archive some old songs (and of course putting them together with a show that gives them a context. A context? Con : more than one. Text: story. That’s one of the things that makes a song interesting and engaging. That over used word the ‘back story’… I guess that’s actually a step on from the song i...
Piece This Star Together
April 21, 2024 00:49 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBEpisode #205: Piece This Star Together (Song starts at 4.45) I find it endlessly fascinating, thinking about where a song might come from. 'Piece This Star Together' came from something my grandfather, Harry, said. My mum passed it on to me, when I was a youngster (bit of wisdom, I think): ‘We’ve all got a little piece of the star within us all and we’ve just got to piece this star together’. It resonated in me and it remained in me. Years later, in Melbourne, Australia in 1998, the phrase/ ...
Setting Sun
April 10, 2024 07:18 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBEpisode #204: The Setting Sun. (Song starts at 4:12) In the studio, I opened the songbook book and thought ‘Hey, why haven’t I featured Setting Sun on on an episode yet? It’s been sitting there since 2013’. So here we go. I thought I’d have a sing and play through the song, but I did a quick search of my hard drive and found an old piano vocal demo. It’s got lots of energy. A snapshot of a moment in time. That’s what makes demos great. So where does a song come from? Looking at my song book,...
Count On Love
April 02, 2024 23:35 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBEpisode #203: Count On Love (Song starts at 3:42) Welcome to a very relaxed episode. Thanks for tuning in, by the way…it’s great that this podcast is being listened by people all around the world. Music is the international language isn’t, it - or perhaps it’s love? Song #617, Count On Love, started out life as a piano solo piece. You can hear the original piece on my album 'Peace' (1 hour of peaceful piano solo pieces). Somewhat bizarrely (and rather unromantically), it was one of 3 piec...
Sideways From A Paper Bag
March 26, 2024 00:35 - 32 minutes - 22 MBEpisode #202: Sideways From A Paper Bag (Song starts at 3:55) On this episode I’m going to take you back in time, with a demo recorded in the year 2000. Quite a bizarre title, isn’t it. Something I’ve noticed on this podcast is that as lyricist, if I’m not really too sure what to write about, I’ll look around and see what’s happening around me. My eyes will generally focus on a object and I’ll just go ahead a describe it. This seems to have the effect of grounding the song in something rea...
Sleeping On A Wish
March 20, 2024 11:34 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBEpisode #201: Sleeping On A Wish (Song starts at 4:08) I’m in a fairly relaxed state of mind. I’ve been holidaying, camping beside a stream In Bright, Vic, Australia. The sound of the stream is what I’ve brought back with me, it just sort of permeates the whole being, the sounds of the stream and birds. So when I came into my studio, I thought to myself I’m not going to do a rock n roll song…I’m in a cruisey mood. 'Sleeping On A Wish' came from a phrase my daughter said to me when she was ve...
One Thing We know
March 06, 2024 23:43 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBEpisode #200 : One Thing We Know. (Song starts at 4:26) Welcome to episode #200! It’s such a great feeling, because I honestly wasn’t sure I’d get past episode #1. It’s become like a ‘Songwriter Speaks’ sort of an online gig for me - something I really look forward to each week. Whether you’ve been here from the start with me, or a new arrival, or perhaps you pop in from time to time, regardless, thanks so much for tuning in. I hope you’re enjoying this podcast as much as I am. I wrote this ...
Song for August
February 27, 2024 22:35 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBEpisode #199: Song For August (Song starts at 3:08) Welcome to another song - and another 30 mins of observations, humour, with a particular focus on songwriting. For this episode, as it happens, I found a couple of different of versions of Song #396, Song For August, using the same lyrics. Both done in 1994. One was written on the piano by myself. The version we went with ( and quite rightly) is the one Paul Dredge and myself wrote on guitar (Paul) and voice (me). This was one of 12 songs ...
Only Love Is Real
February 18, 2024 20:50 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBEpisode #198: Only Love Is Real (Song starts at 4:29) This one, Song #660, popped up in amongst a dozen or so songs I had a sing and play through, earlier today. I thought ‘Aha!’ this would be a good one to have a look at for the podcast. It’s a seemingly simple song. A ‘big day’ was the topic of my blog this week. And it was a big day, the day I took the hand of the person who turned out to be my wife… 'When you took my hand, helped me to understand Worked out how I felt, The turning of t...
Let Her Know
February 08, 2024 09:56 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBEpisode #197: Let Her Know (Song starts at 5:19) Song #156, Let Her Know, was composed in 1990. Back then, I was starting to think that’s a reasonable amount of songs. The demo on this episode was recorded a decade later. And here we are in 2024. Wow. 34 years later, I find myself with 800 songs. It was fun, as always, listening to the demo, playing parts of 'Let Her Know', talking about where it came from, how it came together, what inspired the song. What inspired the song were a serie...
Home Straight
January 30, 2024 06:13 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBEpisode #196: Home Straight (Song starts at 2:40) This episode’s song would be a ‘protest song’ about the way we are not looking after the world & how out of touch with nature we have become. Every now and then a song like this sneaks up on me. When it happens, I just go with the flow. It’s a great way to let off some steam. It’s also a very creative & effective way of dealing with some big feelings. The trick is, it doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s a great place to put anger, the arts - because w...
White Angels
January 09, 2024 01:13 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBEpisode #195: White Angels (Song starts at 5:51) On this episode we are looking at the 2nd song I wrote after I arrived in Melbourne in 1997. I'd already written 385 songs in New Zealand before this one. I came to Melbourne as it was a rite of passage, of sorts, for kiwi songwriters to jump the ditch. I was here to set up camp, to be here for some time, to continue on - or perhaps more accurately start again - on my creative path. I needed to find some more band players, and I really wanted...
Parachutes
January 03, 2024 09:25 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBEpisode #194: Parachutes (Song starts at 4:40) Back in 1993, I had a residency as a pianist at a resort in Wairakei, near Taupo, in New Zealand. To rejuvenate myself - and lift my spirits - while I know I was very lucky to have this sort of gig, being a pianoman has it’s ups and downs. During the daytime, I’d often get out into nature. I’d play golf or go trout fishing. I wrote the words for song #303, Parachutes, as I sat in my old van Hercules one late morning. I’d taken a drive to a van...
Soul Yo Yo
December 20, 2023 11:11 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBEpisode #193: Soul Yo-Yo (Song starts at 5:08) Ever wondered about all the personal ups and downs we have and how - in some of the more extreme moments - we seem to bring to light aspects of ourselves we perhaps don’t regularly access? I wonder why we wait for those times of crises to express and act on more of our potential? That was the inspiration for the words of song #43 Soul Yo-Yo, Written in 1998. ‘We’re barely in touch with our souls, closest to them in our pain’ When I arrived in...
When I Was Young
December 05, 2023 12:14 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBEpisode #192: When I Was Young (Song starts at 4:52 ) When I Was Young is song #554, composed in 2010. I remember it was a fun piece to write. Lyrically, as the title suggests, it’s an older me, looking back at my youth. It’s a reflective lyric. It’s about hanging on to the childhood optimism, the magic that can be found in life. I strive to hang on to those sorts of feelings. I think because I’m so involved in the arts, it’s kept me awake, alive, optimistic and passionate about life. The m...
Goodnight
November 27, 2023 22:39 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode #191: Goodnight (Song starts at 4:20) Here’s another half an hour of music and gentle chat. This isn’t a left brained sort of dry presentation eg: “ and here we have the verse, you'll note… blah blah”. No, it’s more relaxed. I’m on stage - in my mind. Well, I’m sitting at my piano, in my a studio in Melbourne, Australia, and you are my audience and I’m here to entertain and inform you. So I’m an entertainer. I enjoy relating events from my past that help paint the picture of where t...
Driving Home Blues
November 22, 2023 11:12 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode #190: Driving Home Blues (Song starts at 3:00) I’m really enjoying producing these episodes - it’s a live online gig, really. That’s what it feels like. Thanks so much to those of you who are tuning in regularly. If you’re new here: I’m looking to shine a light on some aspects of how I compose a song. I’m certainly not to looking take away the mystery - as if I could do that. The mystery is half of what makes song writing intriguing. In 1991, when I wrote song #190, 'Driving Home ...
Finding This City
November 15, 2023 02:06 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBEpisode #189: Finding This City. (Song starts at 3:42 ) Hi there, this episode was a fun one to put together. To start with, Finding This City came into my mind as I went into my studio. I went over to a large box of old cassettes and selected one completely randomly. Amazingly, the tape that said Peter ’94, was teed up and ready to play the uptempo rocker that is: 'Finding This City'. That sort of thing really appeals to me. It feels very close to the sort of magic feeling that can happen ...
Weather Girl
November 08, 2023 01:47 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBEpisode #188: Weather Girl (Song starts at 3:48) Back in the day, when I wrote this one, there used to be a weather girl on TV after the news. She used to have a stick and point out the highs and the lows on a weather map. Also back in the day I was getting to know a young lady. It was a little bit of an up and down time. I wasn’t sure quite how a lunch date was going to go, from day to day. I guess looking back, we just weren’t cut out to be together too easily. I found all the ups and do...
Not Here At All
October 31, 2023 00:18 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBEpisode #187: Not Here At All (Song starts at 4:42 ) People ask me: “why do you do a podcast, Peter?” and I just say well I really, really enjoy it. Life is to be enjoyed. Plus, I’m really enjoying rediscovering songs which I’ve written a while ago - like this episode’s song, 'Not Here At All'. It was written in the year 2000. It’s fun to sit behind my piano and entertain as I speak. I did it for a living for years. This has more of a songwriter speaks sort of angle. It’s fun and inform...
Song For You
October 24, 2023 00:24 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBEpisode #186: Song For You. (Song starts at 3:38) This is a love song. Just words and a simple tune. It can be a powerful combination. Written in 2000, song #475 sums up the grateful feeling I’d found by deciding to commit to my girlfriend who became my wife. Lucky me. It’s been an incredibly enjoyable process - our relationship - and rediscovering songs over these last 180 odd weeks. I let the song lead the way for each episode and endeavour to try and keep out of the way of the emerging st...
Lonely Tune
October 19, 2023 07:15 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBEpisode #185: Lonely Tune (Chase Those Blues Away). (Song starts at 3:20) It’s been a nice few days. Yesterday was a cracking ‘blue sky day’. I was sitting outside and I decided to go inside and sit at the piano and sing a song. I picked up the old purple book, flicked it open and there it was: Lonely Tune. I thought ‘why not…’ I enjoyed singing it so much I thought I’d choose it for this week’s episode. It was also relaxing and fun to record it as I recorded the episode. Where did Lonely Tu...
Strangetown
October 13, 2023 11:38 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBEpisode #184: Strange Town (Song starts at 4:41 & 26:00 ) If it’s your first time here, thanks for dropping by. You’ve picked an interesting one - this is a bit of a wild and whacky episode. I’ve picked on an old song from 1987. I was a ‘piano man’ back then, Paul Dredge ( co-writer / long time buddy ) and I were performing as a duo in the evenings, presenting dining music. But we were ready to rock out… in some sort of inner David Byrne (from Talking Heads), style - a zany sort of rock (...
Brilliant Sunshine
October 10, 2023 08:53 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBEpisode #183: Brilliant Sunshine (Song starts at 4:43) I started this song as I was travelling to piano teaching one morning. I was sitting at the bus stop on the busy road. The sun was so hot and bright I could barely read the words on my page. That is literally what the first few sentences of the lyrics say. So pretty much, no matter where you are, or what you’re up to, it can be done. We all have the choice to focus on something creative to lift out mood. I could’ve been sitting at that ...
Hit The Sun
September 28, 2023 22:10 - 30 minutes - 21 MBEpisode #182: Hit The Sun (Song starts at 6:00) Where did 'Hit The Sun' come from? Well, as soon as I read through the lyrics, like a poem, it took me right back to the day I composed it. It was a beautiful Spring day. I went outside to hang out some washing ( my cat followed me, waiting for his customary ride in the washing basket, back inside). Then I sat on the front porch and started writing about what was around me. Lines like: ‘Ice blue sky, pastel neon sphere, riding high ….Black bir...
Gone Too Soon
September 20, 2023 04:29 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBEpisode #181: Gone Too Soon (Song starts at 4:12) Here’s one from 2014: song # 620, 'Gone Too Soon' It was inspired by a neighbour who lived across the street from us. She always had just the right amount of time to chat. She wasn’t one of those you’d have to duck and run from, (through the fear of losing 15mins). Nope. She was positive & interested in what you were up to, bright in the eye and in voice and spirits. Consequently, I chose to write this song for her in an up sort of manner, wh...
Crossroads
September 16, 2023 23:12 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode #180: Crossroads (Song starts at 4:04) I wrote crossroads, Song #119, in 1989. When I saw the title of the song in my old green songbook, I remembered it was based on an old memory. Reading through the first verse, a vivid scene sort of played out in my mind, like recalling a dream: I was I about 3 or 4. My mother and I had gone to visit an old lady. We sat in her lounge, and cups of tea were served (not for me). My eyes wandered along the old mantelpiece, past the old ticking clock ...
Can’t Sing You A Song
September 05, 2023 00:48 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode #179: Can’t Sing You A Song (Song starts at 3:38) I had a bit of fun with the demo on this episode. Earlier today, I was supposed to be recording some piano for a song. The session got cancelled at the last minute. Turns out I was really in the mood to record, so what started out as a piano/vocal take ended up having the kitchen sink thrown in ( strings, guitars, bass, Rhodes - all done on the keyboards. Good fun. Can’t Sing You A Song is a different style for me. Every now and th...
Inside
August 30, 2023 05:12 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBEpisode #178: Inside (Song starts at 4:21) This episode’s song is #630, written in August, 2015. It was one of those ‘words first, music second’ sort of songs. It’s interesting this song should float to the surface for this episode…this week I had a bit of a wobbly moment, we all have them: I was wondering how much would it really have changed things, had I stayed in NZ (at 30 I moved to Melbourne and started again). Self doubt was the feeling that caused me to pick up a pen in 2015. A co...
Evening Hours
August 22, 2023 03:44 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBEpisode #177: Evening Hours (Song starts at 3:34 &16:22) 'Evening hours' starts out with a slightly unsettling discordant bell (sounds like the end something) set against a quiet piano riff. This particular introduction has always brought to mind a potential rough story and an opening scene in a play or possibly a movie or stage show, for me. The bell represents ‘the end’ (also the start) and the arpeggio is like a child music box dancer - ‘the beginning’. A music box is also something th...
Just Can’t Keep It Inside
August 15, 2023 01:54 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBEpisode #176: Just Can't Keep It Inside (Song at 4.06) Just can’t keep it inside sounds like it was written by another song writer. It didn’t surprise me when it came through though. Every now and then a song in this sort of ‘soft ballad with a swung rhythm style’ comes through for me. I haven’t thought of this song for a long time. It’s from my first book, song number 62, written in 1987, in New Zealand. After writing it, I played the song from time to time over the next decade, but I just...
All Comes back
August 08, 2023 07:18 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBEpisode #175: All Comes Back (Song starts at 4:09) Isn’t it great to receive an unexpected present. You know that feeling. That’s what it feels like to write a song. So for that to happen, it does feel like it comes from somewhere else. It’s a gift then, to pass on, a gift that you had a hand in bringing into being. It sure feels like a joint effort. This episode features yet another song I’d forgotten I’d written. For me, that’s one of the nice things about recording these episodes. Rec...
Falter
July 31, 2023 22:28 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBEpisode #174: Falter (Song starts at 3.35) I had a conversation yesterday with Paul Dredge, my co songwriter, long time buddy and sounding board (always good to have one or a few of these that you can trust just to listen or offer sound measured advice). We had a laugh together about how a lot of my first 50 or 100 songs were pretty much ‘ baby I love you’. Baby I’ll miss you, or howling at the moon …yep. Love songs. Nothing wrong with that. (Song# 637, Falter, featured on this episode. It’...
Can’t Wait That Long
July 25, 2023 23:41 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBEpisode #173: Can’t Wait That Long (Song starts at 3:55) Now and then a peaceful sort of feeling will - I was going to say descend on me - but that’s not quite right. A peaceful feeling will arrive quietly and I’ll find my mood has gently been lifted. When this happens, I’ll see if there’s some lyrics waiting on the piano, or perhaps in my folder of new words… I’ll look through a few and generally there’ll be a feeling of ‘ Aha yes, these words fit the bill, that’s what I’m feeling’… From...
Cry Your Eyes Out
July 18, 2023 03:05 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBEpisode #172: Cry Your Eyes Out (Song starts at Song #88 was written in New Zealand in 1988. I was up a mountain. I had a ski gig.. playing and singing in the evenings. In the daytime I was skiing. When it rained I either went trout fishing or wrote songs. I also drew 50 cartoon strips about my dog. Pretty much a blissful time. However… I was lonely, for sure. This song is about missing someone. How crying your eyes out can somehow perhaps be good for you. 'Cry Your Eyes Out' is a snapshot...
Rainy Night
July 12, 2023 07:44 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBEpisode #171: Rainy Night (Song starts at 2:48) This song was written by myself & Paul Dredge (It appears on our recent folkrock album, 'The Untrodden Track' - streaming now). Rainy Night was inspired by a night spent in a house bus, at a beach, as a youngster. A storm was hitting the bus all night. It was really being rocked around. It felt like the full force of nature was doing its thing. It was an emotional time for me, at 5 years old and I found myself questioning pretty much everythi...
You’re Mine
July 04, 2023 12:34 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBEpisode #170: You’re Mine (Song starts at 2:25) Song #112, You’re Mine, was written 1988. That sounds like a long time ago. I remember a time when 1988 was the future. When I was an exchange student in the USA in 1984, Michael J Fox was starring in Back To The Future, the first of those brilliant movies. Now it seems I’ve had a quick trip in a DeLorean to find myself in 2023 - the years have whizzed by. I’ve just found an old cassette tape of a live gig by my songwriting buddy and great ...
Just About Enough
June 26, 2023 11:22 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBEpisode #169: Just About Enough (Song starts at 3:47) Today was a wintery day. I went outside and there wasn’t even a ‘hint of a breeze’. That phrase appears in verse one of this episodes featured song. Then I heard a ‘muted bird call’. Those words are also in lyrics , so I thought hey, that’ll do for this week’s episode. I wrote ‘Just ‘About Enough’ for my wife, as an anniversary present. This is song #585, which was written in 2012. The scene that sets the mood for the song - and our relati...
Life In One Day
June 20, 2023 01:26 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBEpisode #168: Life In One Day (Song starts at: 3:20) I did a gig this week. On the spur of the moment, for my last song, I decided to play 'Life In One Day'. The gig was part of the Mornington Winter Music Festival, here on the Mornington Peninsula. I was playing on the street (It went really well. Met some nice people, enjoyed seeing the way music brings people together). My gig was rescheduled at the last moment. I did let my email list know, but sure enough a lady and her daughter happene...
The Same Game
June 13, 2023 12:27 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBEpisode #167: The Same Game (Song starts at: 3:50) After focusing on the lyrics for the majority of last week’s episode, as it turns out, here, we are mostly looking at the music composition of song # 672, 'The Same Game'. The lyrics are about that moment when you finally arrive home after a long day out and about. Maybe a candle is lit, some relaxing music is put on, then you sit back and think about everything that happened in the day. We go through a lot each day, us humans - with our in...
Between You and Me
June 04, 2023 01:36 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBEpisode #166: Between You and Me (Song starts at 6:25) I’m going to take you back to 1994 on this episode, literally. This week my wife said to me ‘maybe we should have gone on to England ( we’d moved here - Melbourne - in 1997, originally we are from New Zealand. I think we just might get to the UK sometime…). This made think of the song 'Between You and Me'. So I thought aha! That’ll do for this week's podcast episode. Then I remembered and old cassette tape of me talking in my van a...
Bigger
May 30, 2023 01:23 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode #165: Bigger (Song starts at 4:52) The lyrics for 'Bigger' (song #689) were written in 2015. I remember having them squirrelled away, waiting for the mood to hit me to sit down and write the music - which I did in 2016. This song has a strong rhythmical element, but it’s absolutely folkrock. The lyrics all stemmed from the brain wave. ‘It’s bigger than you . . . .and it’s bigger than me’. The pause was always there whenever I thought of the line, before I wrote the music. While it’s ...
Destiny
May 15, 2023 12:53 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBEpisode #164: Destiny (Song starts at 4:31) Today has been a beautiful, pristine autumn day. The sort of day where you breathe the air in and think ‘Yes, it’s good to be alive’. On that note, that’s what I was thinking back in 1991, when I wrote song #198. But I was also considering the big picture…some things were coming through on the news about conflicts between people and between countries. I’m pretty much a pacifist, I think. The thought of violence is abhorrent to me. So I wrote this s...