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Songs of the year – 2019

Songs of the year – 2019

A year in which I've sadly recorded no music so have to focus on other people's. I'm using URIs this year to take you to the tracks themselves within Spotify - copy and paste them into your browser's address bar or Spotify's search tool. Get me. Be Forest - Bengala I...

What’s a songwriter? What’s a song?

What’s a songwriter? What’s a song?

I write and record music. I've been doing it - slowly and often torturously - for 15 years. Recent output has been almost prolific by my standards, and the process of writing and recording has accordingly taken over an unhealthy portion of my headspace. As Joe Pugg...

Songs of the year

Songs of the year

Without ever considering formalising it, I’ve had a favourite song of the year pretty clearly marked since about 2009. So, as I’ve now been furnished for a full year with Spotify’s ‘Discover Weekly’ playlist (what I’ve always wanted, really), I thought I’d make a bit...

Releasing and promoting music

Releasing and promoting music

I finished recording some music earlier this year, and self-released it as an EP. You've no doubt heard it, having seen the poster campaign, been flooded with emails and had your social media accounts wallpapered in adverts. No? Oh. Err... here it is anyway... Yeah......

Jokes that only work on 6Music

Shaun Keaveny this morning asked for listeners' 'jokes that only work on BBC Radio 6 Music'. I didn't offer this one up as it also requires some bi-lingual skill. I came up with it, somewhat unbelievably, when in the midst of a heavy hangover in Bordeaux: Qu'est-ce...

Mercury is poisonous, you know

Mercury is poisonous, you know

A title bristling with insinuation, isn’t it? Well I’m not going to damn it to hell, but I’ve always had a bit of an issue with the Mercury Music Prize. Or the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, as it now refers to itself. But rather than just blindly slagging it off like...

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