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Songwriting and surviving in an age of social media and industry collapse. Ben Walker’s vision of the future of songwriting and the future of music.

Archive for May, 2008

New song: Ten

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It’s not necessarily finished yet, but who needs to finish songs when they can be YouTubed around the world in seconds and then fly back like a boomerang laden with feedback and comments, ready to be rewritten and demoed a few more times. Unfinished is the new finished.
Of course sometimes things are actually finished. Like [...]

Songwritr.com - pitching 2.0 for the creative industries

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I’ve thinking about a web application for songwriters. Something that could ease the process of finding songwriters, pitching songs to record companies and collaborating.

If hippies can’t write songs, what can they do?

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Yesterday I heard the most insipid song ever written. That’s a bold statement, I know, but this song really made me cringe. It broke almost every rule of good songwriting, and was delivered in such an earnest and well-meaning way that it was hard to know whether to laugh or wretch.
It’s going to be difficult [...]

May Day fun and a Radio 2 session with Jont

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I took self publicity to a new level on May Day morning by playing Jungle Book songs at a champagne breakfast in Oriel College and getting booked to play their Guest Night dinner next week! And then on Sunday I played a great set with Jont on Radio 2…
h3. May Day shenanigans
May Morning in Oxford [...]

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