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...]
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 →
Songwriters’ forum
By popular demand, our new forum is – our old forum! Please do give it a try and let us have any feedback – previous users should just be able to log in as before with the same details. We’ve still got a bit of work to do on the design, but for now, it should all work, enabling you to post and start new threads. If you haven’t done so already, please register for an account and then you’re ready to go. Link to SWF forum Read More →
Songwriting tutors
House band rehearsal 2008 In 2009 we were delighted to welcome back two of our 2008 tutors. Iain Archer and Boo Hewerdine (best-known for their songwriting for Snow Patrol & Eddi Reader respectively) will both be with us all week, running songwriting workshops with our core team in Bath. We were also really pleased to welcome outstanding Irish singer-songwriter Andy White, who flew all the way from Australia to join the SWF tutor team. The studio... [Read More...]
Studio tracks
The SWF Studio team, with house producer Davey Ray Moor have been hard at work in the main studio [Read More...] Read More →
Richard Thompson – Guest songwriting tutor 2008
Richard Thompson performs ‘Cold Kisses’ at the 2008 Festival. [Read More...] Read More →
Teaching songwriting with a Mac
I occasionally get asked, by Festival songwriters [Read More...] Read More →