Band on a budget - the recording process part 23

Ok, you might reasonably have thought that the last blog would be the end of the series, and it could have been, but this afternoon I made this:

New single out

Looking back over my posts it appears I have become so excited by International Hawaiian Shirt Day that I've forgotten to mention that I have a single out.
Doh!
It's called Road Song, and it even has a video:

As well as youtube you can also listen to it on:
Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zOcXAxVZZk
Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DNZVQVB/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1528918275&sr=8-2&keywords=drew+stephenson+road+song
Apple Music: I don't have itunes so I don't have a link yet, sorry.
And apparently on Deezer as well, but no-one uses that so it's not really important.

But the BEST place to listen to it (and cheapest place to buy it) is on Bandcamp, where you can get an uncompressed download if that's your thing:
https://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/track/road-song

I'll sort that apple link out in due course.
I would say, "Enjoy" but it's not really that kind of song...

Band on a budget - the recording process part 15

Needed to give my ears a rest for a bit so I pulled this little teaser video together just for a change.

Debris, or What's left behind

New song, Debris, up on you tube here: 

It fuses two of my usual themes, death and space hardware.
I'm pitching it well within my personal niche...


I think this is another song that really needs to be done on an electric guitar with a full arrangement behind it, I'm not convinced it works on its own. Whaddyareckon?


This afternoon I have learnt some things.
1) Making the time to write new songs is good, I should do more of it
2) When squeezing seventeen syllables into a line it's best to actually learn the line before trying to sing it.
3) I need a haircut
4) Chocolate tart is good. *


Here are the unmangled lyrics:

And I can see the headlights on the road as we pass by overhead

Some distant automaton calls numbers into the atmosphere

And they are lost, they are all just lost

And who's going to find us now? Who's going to help us now?

so we keep sending out a few hundred letters to the dead

all the while wondering if some of the signal's messing with our head

So when you find that we're falling this far

Who's going to help us now? Who's going to want to help us now?

I don’t want to rot, I don’t want to burn

Spare me from the sea

Send me up with the silent satellites, One more piece of space debris

So we settle into circles behind the wheels of dying cars.

There’s always time for one more drink before it gets dark

And we are lost. We are all so lost.

And who's going to find us now? Who's going to help us now?

And who's going to find us now? Who's going to help us now?

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

I don’t want to rot, I don’t want to burn

Spare me from the sea

Send me up with the silent satellites, One more piece of space debris

Last night I dreamt of blood.

I dreamt of a man with a gun and a time when that wasn't enough.

And he was lost, he was still so lost

And who's going to help him now? How’re you going to help him now?

I don’t want to rot, I don’t want to burn

Spare me from the sea

Send me up with the silent satellites, One more piece of space debris

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

Hold on steady, stay strong, see the light, here’s the dawn,

* To be fair, I knew this before and it's really not related to the rest of the blog.

New Song

just a quickie for you today, i have, as you will have deduced from the heading of this piece, written a new song. Written, played through once, then straight into the phone and published.
Here is the song what i wrote:

Just like busses...

you wait a month for a post and then you get two at once. The little buggers.
But this is just a tiny post, with a video.
Oh yes, i have just written a new song and in order to remember it i have made a little video. And, stealing shamelessly from the excellent Stickboy, i have decided to post it straight up. Here it is.

Apologies for the sound quality, it's just straight into my phone, and it's only the second time i've played the song. That's how new it is. It's called Satellite.
But anyway, let me know if this is a good thing for future new songs and blogs and i shall keep doing it