Jan 30th. Will play for sleep

Currently going about my daily activities deprived of shut eye as sleep has become a long forgotten dream to me. For the sixth time this week (today being saturday) I'm awake since 2am and feel like a zombie. I'm using my sleepless nights to learn elvis songs and am building up quite a repertoire. Not sleeping, playing elvis tunes and I've got elvis presley ingraved on the neck of my guitar. I may be going mad music fans; just a heads up there. Carry on.
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Jan 20th Murphy's Law

So my day was one of those great ones. I may even look back on this day and think "Crikey! Thank goodness for that!!"
I was very lucky to be at a song writing seminar hosted by Ralph Murphy, a great great songwriter with an unbelievable list of writing and production credits to his name. It was a real eye opener and a chance to learn some lessons in song crafting, and by an accomplished master as well. I learnt so much and I'm mega keen to put things into practice; I really don't want to share the things I've learnt with you but, however, as Ralph himself said...I want you to know everything I know so that we're on an even playing field because then, and only then can I really kick your ass!! Haha!! Too cool :) (still not gonna tell you though!!)

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Jan 18th Blue Monday

Apparently today, the last Monday of January is meant to be the saddest day of the year. The miserable blues are at the height of their strengths today. or so they say anway. I dont mind cold january too much; its that feeling of everything and anything is just around the corner. Well that's me anyway.
Today for me wasnt so much blue monday as pain in the ass monday as i spent most of the day recording vocal and guitar parts for two songs for the record only to be find out that i hadnt set the tracks up right and so had to do the whole lot again. How very very dull. Anyway, its done now and i'm back on track.
I know there hasnt been a cover for you to download for a few days; sorry music fans, there's more of the way soon. In the meantime catch up on the "A Song A Day" link on the site.
Alright, be good.
Franc
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Jan 15th 'buca blues

I'd like to express my gratitude to the gentleman at my show last night who kept on putting shots of sambuca on the stage for me between songs. If this was a measure of how much you enjoyed my playing then thank you kindly. I am at present in a world of pain; we call this the 'buca blues.
I dont think there'll be a free cover for you to download today music fans (see above).
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Jan12th choon!

Alrighty. super excited about thursday; not played one of my gigs in a while and it's going to be splendid. I say one of "my" gigs as i've been playing a bunch of gigs around pubs , doing mostly covers to pay the rent and stay out of trouble before the new record is finished. I was meant to play at two different places on sunday (not at the same time of course, that would be silly and quite unlikely) but I managed to blow my PA and on top of that my guitar pick up has just decided it doesnt want to work anymore so i had the dubious pleasure of going to the PA centre on denmark street and now not having a penny..again...yawn!! anyway, no bother, not fussed, come down on thursday, it'll be special. oh and keep up with my covers will you! Our journey into song storytelling and folklore continues with one of the best of the best; strawberry fields. it's perfect. everything about it wants me to be so much better than i can be. enjoy my take on it. see you thursday.
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Jan 10th Burning Love



Greetings from COLD london. My fingers are missing their gloves very much. I've got a good one for you today; from the King's very own songbook; "Burning Love", one of the all time greats which i couldnt ignore for my series of song exploration! I've tried to make this a little my own; hope you enjoy; as ever you're feedback is welcomed (as long as you say i'm amazing, if not, straight to the gallows you go! tar & feathered along the way.) Have a day of playing today, a few local pubs round where live, it's fun and it pays the rent. happy days. Alright, need to try and get some sort of set together for today's marathon run, check in with you soon. Download today's tune at the usual link along with any of others you may have missed:

http://goodtimesgoodtimes.co.uk/A_Song_A_Day/

be good.
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Jan 8 Slide Away

Alright. Hope you saw the invite for the london show next thursday; it's the first show of the year; a little acoustic hootenanny to break in the new year so if you're in town would be lovely to see you there; it's at fiddlers elbow in kentish town on the 14th and i'm on at 10.
Ok so i got a song done for you lovely people today; it's by one of my favourite song writers who also made me want to pick up a guitar in the first place; i've added a bit of Gram Parsons country flavour to this Noel Gallagher penned gem of a song. Go to the "A Song A Day" link on the site and download from there.
Be good
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Jan 7. 2-4-6-8 Motorway

Stuck on the motorway trying to get to where i need to be this evening so no song for you to download today music fans, sorry. But do catch up on any you might have missed from link on my site
Got the go ahead to start recording next week which i'm super happy about but it'll probably mean "A Song A Day" might not be EVERY day as i have a mountain ahead of me to climb. Stay well. X

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Jan 6th let it snow!


Ah london snow! pretty as a picture. alas my adidas sambas are not designed for this particular weather so i'm somewhat wet & bruised right now. Anyway, it's good to be back and i'm raring to go, will keep you posted on proceedings for the new record and hope to have some tracks to play yo very soon indeed! I'm playing an acoustic show on the 14th so come down, details on the site. Did you get yesterday's "A Song A Day" ? Ooh La La was written by (THE GREAT!) Mr Ronnie Lane when he was in The Faces, a super group of sorts that make a couple of cracking little records back in the day. I highly recommend a cheeky google search to kill the time at work tomorrow if you've not heard of them..(why on earth not?!) you know, when they'd tour, instead of paying to have a support band on the road with them they'd spend the money on buying a bunch of booze and handing it out free to the crowd before they went on stage so everyone (including the band of course) would be suitably plastered by the time the curtain dropped and so ready for a good time. What good sports they were; no myspace numbers or blog posts for them; get hammered, play rock 'n roll & have a good old knees up. happy days! I could go on taking about Ronnie Lane and the Faces for a while but i'm sure you've all got better things to do then listen to me harp on about rock 'n roll's golden age.
So in keeping with this moody winter weather, i thought a slice of something dark would do the trick for today's "A Song A Day" , now those at you that know me know i'm somewhat of an "avid" Bruce Springsteen fan so you should expect a few more of the Boss's tunes on this series of song exploration! I started it off, on the 26th of December with my own little rendition of "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (still available for you to download if you haven't already by the way!) and today's tune is also a title track from one his records "Nebraska". He recorded the whole album on a 4-track tape machine in his home and it still stands tall as one of the (greatest) most important "story teller" records according to this budding music journo! It' on the "A Song A Day" page and if you're reading this on facebook visit the site when you get a chance...
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Jan 4th Labi the Great


Welcome back music fans. Hope you've been enjoying our little song exhibition so far. Many thanks to all of you who have let me know they're enjoying the tunes and for your suggestions of new songs to do. Leave it to me and I'm sure there'll be a few more surprises in store before you know it. I'm enjoying posting a different song each day but i think i'll be sticking to interpreting other songwriters (that's a nice way of saying i'm laying down some covers!) rather than stick up demos of my own songs. I'd rather you listened to mine in all their finished "glory". ha! speaking of which , I'm heading back to london tomorrow , my Italian soggiorno is over and i'm looking forward to heading back to the Blighty and get cracking on finishing the new record. We're spending all of this month recording in various rooms / studios / fields / motorways and the month after tidying it all up and applying some studio trickery when and where necessary. I'll keep you posted as ever, i'll get some visuals to you as well.
So, back to "A Song A Day", today's tune is called "It Must Be Love"; written by Labi Siffre, an English singer-songwriter in the early 70s, i dont know how much success he had it with it but most of us know the Madness version of it. It's a great song; as far as songwriting goes, i think its very Beatlesy; short & sweet with really tight little section changes and brilliant jazzy chords throughout to keep it really interesting. I think it's beautiful..hope you dig! Download here or catch up on all the other songs here.
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Jan 2nd fortune teller's song


Moonriver. Tune! That'll have to be added to my "A Song A Day" series very soon. Hey, if you think of any songs you'd like to hear on "A Song A Day" just let me know and as long as it's not grime, or terrible, i'll see what i can do. Listened to a bit of Django Reinhardt today; it's the kind of music that just floors you on first listen. He only had two fingers and was a better guitarist then i'll ever dream to be. practice, sunbeam..practice! Anyway, today's tune is up on the page, you can listen here or click from the site . It's called Fortune Teller's Song , hope you enjoy it; let me know what you think.
be good
franc
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01/01/10

Ok, well to start this year off.... I think you'll like this. Don't miss out on today's "A Song A Day" free download. What A Wonderful World, indeed.
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