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	<title>UK Songwriting Festival &#124; Annual summer songwriting courses in Bath, UK</title>
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	<description>Songwriting festival for songwriters of all genres held every summer in Bath, UK</description>
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		<title>Eddi Reader &#8211; special guest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re delighted to welcome Eddi as our 2010 special guest tutor.



Eddi will be joining our songwriters&#8217; panel, listening to new work written during the week, and performing a special one-off show for us here in Bath. Here&#8217;s her recent single &#8216;Dragonflies&#8217;.
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		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/05/14/eddi-reader-dragonflies/</link>
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		<title>Master&#8217;s degree in Songwriting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
We&#8217;re very excited to announce that the University&#8217;s Master&#8217;s degree in Songwriting has a new home, in the form of a purpose-built songwriters&#8217; studio at our Corsham Court campus. The next enrolment is for September 2010 and we&#8217;re taking applications (subject to interview and songwriting portfolio) from now.
To find out more about the course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/01/26/masters-degree-in-songwriting-2/</link>
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		<title>SWF 2010 &#8211; now booking!</title>
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We&#8217;re now taking bookings for SWF10. The secure e-store is now live, so you can guarantee your place on the course. We&#8217;re taking up to 50 songwriters this year, but bookings will be on a first-come-first-served basis. Note &#8211; the SWF Studio option has only 12 places. If you want to discuss your booking give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/01/26/swf-2010-launch/</link>
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		<title>Booking opening soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Booking for the 2010 festival (Aug 16-20 2010) will open in the next few days. We&#8217;ll post an announcement here as soon as e-booking is online.
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		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/01/12/booking-opening-soon/</link>
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		<title>SWF in the Sunday Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a lovely write-up in the Sunday Times this week from journalist (and songwriter) David Sinclair, who attended the 2009 Festival.
Here&#8217;s the link; the text is also pasted below (c) Sunday Times 2009
Sunday Times article
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UK Songwriting Festival at Bath Spa University
40 students at songwriting boot camp with talks from Chris Difford of Squeeze and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/09/06/swf-in-the-sunday-times/</link>
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		<title>Protected: SWF09 &#8211; studio tracks (SWF songwriters only)</title>
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		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/09/02/swf09-studio-tracks/</link>
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		<title>Final performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of the the 2009 Festival, we all got together in the cafÈ to play back the last of the week&#8217;s songs. Many people had delayed their live performance until this final session, due either to completing a particular song toward the end of the week, or the time taken in developing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/08/25/final-performance/</link>
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		<title>Chris Difford &#8211; special guest SWF2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Thursday of this year&#8217;s Festival we got Chris Difford and Boo Hewerdine together for a Q&#38;A about the craft of songwriting, particularly relating to lyrics. Here&#8217;s an audio file of their answers to the audience&#8217;s questions. If anyone wants to volunteer to transcribe this and send us a text file, we&#8217;d be delighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/08/24/chris-difford-and-boo-hewerdine-in-conversation/</link>
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		<title>Fi&#8217;s blog &#8211; Andy West ñ Live Songwriting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy is introduced by Joe as the bravest man at SWF as he is about to write a song live with no preparation at all in front of a crowd of songwriters.
He hands round pieces of paper and asks everyone to write down prospective song titles.
 The purpose of this demonstration is to share one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/08/22/fis-blog-andy-west-%e2%80%93-live-songwriting/</link>
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		<title>Demo panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 4 &#8211; and the first demo panel.
Our songwriters were invited to submit songs for group discussion for public critique (and many thanks to those who were brave enough to do this!). A recording of each song was played, with lyrics projected in the University Theatre. Our panel this year is Boo Hewerdine, Joe Bennett, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/08/20/demo-panel/</link>
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