26 November 2021

Ma's Cherry Mist

I've got a new Christmas EP coming out in a week. It's called Ring the Fuller Minstrel In. Here's a lyric video of the first track, my take on the Tennyson poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells":

I also did a couple of covers for the bonus round of SpinTunes 18 and submitted a hastily-recorded song to the "It Wasn't My Good Fortune" Song Fight.

02 November 2021

My Foes Shake

I was eliminated after round two, but I submitted a shadow entry for round three of SpinTunes. The round three challange was: "Tell Me What You Want: Write the "I want" song for a musical that otherwise doesn’t exist. Your imagined musical may be based on a true story or an existing non-musical work (novel, film, etc), or it may be wholly original. A musical's "I want" song is the number early in the show in which the main character lays out their basic desire and motivation - to find themselves, to prove themselves, to fit in, to get out, etc."

My imagined musical is an adaptation of the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth, but focused on the character of the Doctor's granddaughter Susan. I'm thinking it would be structured a bit like Into the Woods, with the first act basically following the story that was on television but the second act carrying on with Susan after The Doctor, Barbara, and Ian depart in the TARDIS.