My mission: to write, arrange and demo two new songs and finish my application for the Woodford folk Festival which needs to be in by 22 May.
For someone like myself who has never written and arranged a song in less than three months, this is a pretty scary scenario. It’s not so much that I’m a prima donna, it’s just that after so many years of songwriting, I’ve got a really narrow band of what I feel works for me as a live act and as an artist.
For instance, day two of the challenge and am already thinking I’d be happy to finish one song let alone two.
I’ve got the new song up and running but it is really tricky to arrange it in such a way that I can still play it live. It needs more than I can give it. Now I’m thinking of pulling out the electric guitar and billing myself as an electric female solo act rather than an acoustic solo act.
See? I told you wouldn’t would get tricky. It’s not panic stations yet, but I do know where the button is….
Laying down a little vocal percussion...
