OK. I’m stopping this for a bit. Maybe I’ll be back later.  There are some other things that I need to do.

This is my final track of the week.  I never managed to get it off the ground.  Thanks Jon you’ve helped stop me footering about and actually finish something for a change.

I’d never have imagined when I started writing this song that it would end up sounding like something Bill Bailey does a very funny version of.  Thanks to Kumru for the backing vocal.

This started off as a list of words concerned with current news which I then freely associated on…..I didn’t think it was going to go anywhere and I almost abandoned it but somehow mid evening it turned around and came out quite nicely. 

Almost the antithesis of yesterdays track.  It seems to me a peculiar thing that after I’ve spent time writing a song I then have to spend more time learning it.  As a result the arrangement of this was rather hastily done.

A day off so I had a bit more time to spend on this track.  I enjoyed doing it….apologies to Captain Beefheart though.  I think tomorrow will be a quieter day.

This is a grey summers day song.  The sun did come out later on but by that time I’d holed myself up in a dingy room to write and record this.  It was more enjoyable and less stressful than yesterday.

Disaster!  After spending hours on my magnificent Indie rock epic I had to abandon it because there just wasn’t time.  I had to come up with something else at the last minute and the best I could do was this very short and badly played tune.  Maybe I’ll get the hang of this by the end of the week….

OK, this isn’t a real Tune A Day in some ways, I admit. A friend of my daughter’s asked me ages ago to make a CD of her singing so I wrote a quick backing track and she improvised very impressively for about ten minutes in front of the microphone.

Unfortunately, because she’s nine it was a very urban sounding track and I loath anything that’s been infected by the hideous blight of Soul Music so I never got around to doing anything with it.

However, today it’s her Dad’s 40th birthday party so I decided to kill three birds with one stone: Get the blasted thing finished so it’s not hanging over me any more, make a CD as a birthday present for him and get a tune done at the same time. So here it is, and I have to say I like it more than I thought I would.

The very first show I did a soundtrack for was a youth theatre production of Dark of The Moon, when I was a teenager. I played the flute and Kate Meredith played the violin. We improvised, with virtually no rehearsal. I’ve been thinking about it because I’ve just been talking to the woman who played Barbara Allen, the tragic heroine of the play and my girlfriend at the time.