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...]

Midge Ure on songwriting – and a Scottish songwriting competition

Here’s a video of Midge Ure (SWF special guest 2006) on songwriting, with some useful comments on clichÈ in his own first attempts at songwriting – hopefully this should give heart to some of our new writers! [Read More...]  Read More →