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Author Archives: mattblick
Diane Warren Video
It’s no exaggeration to say Diane Warren is probably the most prolific and successful songwriter working today. She’s also something of an old school ‘non-performing’ writer and very forthright and candid. Check out this interview with bonus questions from my … Continue reading
The Bond Progression
Musos – help me out for a future blog post. I’m Looking for examples of tunes by any band that has a chord progression that rises from the fifth chromatically – e.g Em – C/E – Em6 (the rising … Continue reading
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Set List: Red Sea Lounge @ Guitar Bar 04/04/13
Had a great time supporting Red Sea with special guest Tabla player, Biant Singh. Here’s my set Fingernails – free download Let’s Build An Airport – free download (from Noisetrade) Everything Is Broken – download from Bandcamp Sweet Baby Hand … Continue reading
Set List: Golden Fleece Open Mic 01/04/13
Played my first gig since the EP was released – an open mic at Nottingham’s Golden Fleece hosted by Adam Peter Smith and Marc Reeves who has his own album out I played Fingernails – free download Let’s Build An Airport … Continue reading
Collaboration, Interview And My Latest Songcrush
Christian songwriter Joel Payne wrote an interesting article on collaboration on theCrossing Songs website and he quoted something I wrote on Beatles Songwriting Academy. I guess that makes me an ‘authority’. Go me! Read Joel’s post here, and mine here. … Continue reading
Posted in Songwriting
Tagged David Bazan, Joel Payne, Lets Build An Airport, Pedro The Lion, The Beatles, Tom Slatter
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We Will Rock Your East Midland Airport (Again)
Been doing another production of We Will Rock You all week. 7 guys and a large gong stuck in a small cupboard is not the wild rock and roll lifestyle I imagined for myself, but there you go. Snow permitting, … Continue reading
Posted in Nottingham Sounds
Tagged Dean Jackson, Dog Is Dead, Jake Bugg, Radio, We Will Rock You
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Let’s Build An Airport EP – On Sale Now!
” Every now and again a song comes in and you think ‘it’s just so well crafted, it’s been written with such love and care and the attention to detail is extraordinary’ … it’s just brilliant isn’t it? Great track” … Continue reading
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Single Prop Planes And Grown Up Kids
Trying to blog regularly. In an idea world I’d have everything neatly compartmentalised, but guess what? – it’s not an ideal world! Everything Is Broken as the song goes. Single Props Was really nice to get featured on the … Continue reading
Posted in FAWM, Let's Build An Airport EP
Tagged A Conversation With Death, BBC Introducing, Blast Off To Crazy Planet, Brother Bull, Frankie Rudolph, Frazer Lowrie, Goldsmiths, Hammer Down The Raised Up Nail, Lawson, New Communication, Nusic, Set In Stone, Sweet Baby Hand Grenade, The Gorgeous Chans, Them Balloons
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Let’s Build An Animated Airport Video
Here’s a video for Let’s Build An Airport made from clips of the animated short ‘Paperman’ you can downloaded the single for free from Noisetrade
You Got (Fan) Mail
FAWM is finished, I got ill over the holidays, my EP is approaching like a bullet train on buttered rails, the New Communication single is mixed and off to be pressed and it’s past midnight and I haven’t blogged … Continue reading
Posted in A Blog's Life, Songwriting
Tagged Encouragement, Lets Build An Airport, Paul Williams, So Bad It's Good
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