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The next CD - starting in January 2006
The next CD will be started in January 2006. I have a shortlist of 15 songs written over the past 30 years which I particularly want to record.
One song which may appear on the next CD is an adaption of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, reduced to 12 verses with a tune I invented while walking the dog in the park when I was 17! The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written after Oscar Wilde (opposite) served a two-year sentence there for "gross indecency" (homosexuality). The poem is a poetic meditation on suffering and a pungent social criticism of capital punishment.
I have started to sing this song again, and this has provided an astonishing 'bridge' back into my past, allowing all kinds of other memories and images to walk over into my present, including many other forgotten songs.
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Newsflash (September 2006)
8 songs now recorded for the new CD 2006 CD and sample lyrics and sound clips are available to Registered Members in the Media Library. Working 23/24 September on Searching for the Unicorns, an old song about searching for dreams, never performed - suddenly found on an old cassette and still speaking to me 15 years later. Ce's is recording her vocals on Song for Dee and Queenie on Monday 26th. Sarah's has recorded two Cello parts with more coming up. The Silly Advice CD is now available to buy in the Shop. Clips can be heard in Songbytes
September 2006
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