Archive for December, 2006

New Year’s Eve gigs

This is a plug, OK? I just got news of two New Year gigs on opposite sides of the Atlantic with people using my lyrics. In New York, my pal Marka (photo) will be doing a special show at the Petite Abeille (401 East 20th St & 1st Avenue) to ring in the new [...]

Favourite lyrics too complicated?

very lyricist has heard the dreaded words too often: can’t you make it a little easier? But now the comment is coming from British literacy experts that have come to the same conclusion. As part of the Get On literacy campaign, they sat down and analysed the top 10 karaoke hits, including Robbie Williams’ “Angels”, [...]

Moby & Mylene Farmer: Slipping Away

Oh dear. I just saw a brilliant video on MCM: “Slipping Away/Crier la vie” by Moby and Mylène Farmer. One of the things that grabbed my attention was the fact that the lyrics are incorporated into the visuals - rather cleverly too. So I couldn’t resist checking out the lyrics on Parloes.net.
Well, what can I [...]

Lyrics top search engine results

I sometimes get the feeling I’m repeating myself. According to the British site Wordtracker, song lyrics topped the “surge report” for the last 48 hours. Wordtracker tracks topics used on a variety of engines. The reason I feel I’m repeating myself is that I have posted similar comments several times already. Yup, people seem interested [...]