I’ve done quite a bit of lyric writing for the composer Emily Hall. Click on her name for a previous blog about our collaborations. Emily has now issued the three main song cycles we’ve done as very beautifully designed and printed scores. A recording of Life Cycle, made by Mara Carlyle, Oliver Coates and John […]
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It’s rather bizarre to end up writing someone’s break-up album for them, but that’s what I think I did for Chantal Acda. What was even more bizarre was that, when she (and her collaborator Craig Ward) put out this album – recorded under the name True Bypass – they called it Toby. Chantal (born 1978) is […]
On Thursday last week, Emily Hall – with whom I’ve been co-writing songs for quite a few years – won a Paul Hamlyn Award. Emily had been nominated on five previous occasions, so it was starting to look dangerously like what book-world-people would know as Beryl Bainbridge Booker Syndrome. Paul Hamlyn have put a few […]
