Wouldn't It Be Good

This week's song of the week is a cover of the Nik Kershaw song 'Wouldn't It Be Good' which I recorded sometime around 1995 with the group Substance. It's not massively representative of my current style and I was around 17 when it was recorded so vocally I sound quite different now. We recorded four songs together, the other three being original songs. Maybe they'll see the light of day at some point!

Apologies for two dance songs in a row - not that there's anything particularly wrong with either, but I'm really trying to aim for variety! I was intending to upload an alternative version of a song from the Still Life sessions but it seems I've mislaid both the masters and my minidisc backups of all those songs... I'm sure they're about somewhere but it looks as though they'll now have to make an appearance later on in the year.

My plan for the free download podcast is to have several songs ready to go, ideally around 5 to 10. We're on week three and without the Still Life disks I'm starting to run a bit short so I can see I'm going to be doing a lot of searching and recording for the next couple of weeks! I've been working on a few demo style recordings of songs which didn't make it into the studio sessions for one reason or another, as well as some new songs. If there's anything you'd like to hear, leave a comment on the blog or email mailinglist@dayve.co.uk and I'll see what I can do :-)

We had another band rehearsal last night with everybody there. It's the first time this year we've all played together (although to be fair, it's still only the first fortnight...) so we went over all the (non Christmas) songs we've been working on as well as doing some more work on Dan's song, Just Let Go. Hopefully we'll be able to post up some live dates very soon.

We also had Simon Newbury with us to take some photos and video of the rehearsal and the band all together. I'll be putting these online as soon as they're edited.