The tour was good. We got back late last night, and I'm truly knackered and aching (5 days of pretty much constant car travel). I'm meant to immediately start thinking about my last uni essay for the year, which is due on Friday. I'm finding that more difficult than I imagined (and I did imagine it would be difficult). Now I find that not only does my body hurt, but my mind has slowed down considerably. Maybe it's a testament to the sophistication of the chatter in the tour mobile, but words more than two syllables are leaving me dumbfounded.
Looking forward to uni being over and starting to write songs again. It's been a fair while since I've had the time and the drive to do it (usually these things don't coincide). But writing is something I don't really stop thinking about, even if I'm not doing it. If you're a writer of songs, you're always evaluating other people's songs as a writer, which makes listening to music both fun and educational (and no I'm not getting paid to say this). Over the last few months I've built up quite a mental collection of 'things to try' when I write the next batch of songs. Some of them are musical - types of chord changes or melodies, and others are lyrical, although I find the lyrical ideas are always a lot vaguer than the musical ones. I'm not the kind of writer who always carries around a notebook to scrawl any 'inspiration' down. Having tried this a little in the past, I find this method too piecemeal - it's rare that a song presents itself fully formed, and to try and construct a song with a dozen or more fragments of lyrical material isn't what I call fun. I like to keep things a bit more spontaneous and organic - I think you can always tell if a song's written in one consistent 'mood setting' or if it's been tampered with when another mood strikes, thus ruining the purity of the mood. I probably sound anal...But it is exciting to have a clean slate in front of me, and to design record # 2 from the ground up.
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