If you’re ready…?

SWF 2010 begins tomorrow! We’re all getting very excited – we’ll have 50+ songwriters, a 4-piece house band, 10-strong studio team, a big support team and (if my calculations are correct) over 250 songs yet to be written.

This year we’re using two sites – our main Newton Park campus (right) and our exciting new nightclub venue Burdall’s Yard, where we’ll be having our launch event on Sunday 15th August and our gig and Q&A on the 19th with this week’s guest Eddi Reader, who will also be contributing to our songwriters’ demo panel on the Thursday morning.

After the launch event evening, it all kicks off proper at 10am on the 16th, with an introductory lecture, some song analysis, a playback session, then the first creative task. No hangovers, please!

You can follow us on Twitter and, if you’re a participant, you can join in using the #swf10 hashtag.