Songwriting Festival 2012 now booking – 12-17 August 2012
We’re delighted to announce that the UK Songwriting Festival 2012 will run from August 12th (evening) to August 17th 2012. This year the Festival is presented in partnership with our Scottish friends at Burnsong.org and is part-funded by Creative Scotland. The venue will be Shennanton House in Dumfrieshire. Our choice of venue is deliberately rural – so for a whole week you’ll have nothing do do except write, rehearse, record and... [Read More...]
SWF 2011 – and Masters Degree in Songwriting
Bath Spa University Songwriters' Centre We’ll be resting the Songwriting Festival in 2011 due to major building work on the University campus, but will return in 2012. If you’re interested in studying Songwriting at Bath Spa University, our Masters Degree in Songwriting is now taking bookings. It includes a Distance Learning option, with two intensive weeks (in September and February) at our Songwriters’ Centre at Corsham,... [Read More...]
Boo Hewerdine on songwriting
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Eddi Reader – special guest 2010
We were delighted to welcome Eddi as our 2010 special guest tutor. [Read More...] Read More →
Quick pics – SWF2010 day 3
A few quick pics from a very eventful day 2. More to follow after tonight’s gig. House tech team, ready for the evening's gig in the café Tutor Jez Ashurst helps out one of the songwriters with a lyric idea Tutor Iain Archer discusses a new song with one of our students Read More →
SWF 2010 – now booking!
SWF 2009 - Final Performance Night! We’re now taking bookings for SWF10. The secure e-store is now live, so you can guarantee your place on the course. We’re taking up to 50 songwriters this year, but bookings will be on a first-come-first-served basis. Note – the SWF Studio option has only 12 places. If you want to discuss your booking give us a call on Booking info link Secure e-store Read More →
Booking opening soon
Booking for the 2010 festival (Aug 16-20 2010) will open in the next few days. We’ll post an announcement here as soon as e-booking is online. Read More →
SWF in the Sunday Times
Sunday Times journalist David joined us for the week We had a lovely write-up in the Sunday Times this week from journalist (and songwriter) David Sinclair, who attended the 2009 Festival. Here’s the link; the text is also pasted below (c) Sunday Times 2009 Sunday Times article —————– UK Songwriting Festival at Bath Spa University 40 students at songwriting boot camp with talks from Chris Difford of Squeeze... [Read More...]
Protected: SWF09 – studio tracks (SWF songwriters only)
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Chris Difford – special guest SWF2009
Chris and Boo answered questions from the audience about the craft of lyric-writing (UK Songwriting Festival 2009). On the Thursday of this year’s Festival we got Chris Difford and Boo Hewerdine together for a Q&A about the craft of songwriting, particularly relating to lyrics. [Read More...] Read More →
