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.