Shine A Little Brighter / July 20 2009
I thought dentists were supposed to be clever?
My usual one is away on holiday at the moment and I saw a chatty young locum this morning.
‘So what does our Davy Lawrence do when he’s not having his teeth checked then?’
I decided not to mention the studio. ‘I a ‘ong ‘iter.’
‘Really? A song writer. How wonderful.’
‘Hur.’
‘Tell [...]
Galaxy Casts Off In Podcast Blast-Off / September 12 2008
While Nelson was here, we finished work on his mini-album Half Nelson which Big Arena Records will be releasing shortly.
To say the songs on the album were recorded with just two acoustic guitars, they sound unexpectedly big and powerful, intense and full of passion; but at the same time the whole thing is sad and [...]
Buy Big Music / August 1 2008
Excuse me while I plug Electric Baby Grand again , the first Enormous album on Big Arena Records.
Sales are going very well, but you don’t have a copy, do you Johnny? And neither do you, do you Emma?
So, if you are bored with Britney Spears and have had it up to here with bloody Coldplay, [...]
Even Higher Praise / July 10 2008
I can’t resist replicating part of a review of My Type, the Enormous single that was originally released on Beatific Records, as it appeared in Melody Maker.
When you consider my fondness of the two women mentioned you will perhaps appreciate why.
‘Like being locked in a lingerie store with Anna Friel and Catherine Deneuve.’
Wayhey!
Big Gig / May 26 2008
ENORMOUS are playing at the Old Library Theatre in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK on Saturday 21st June. It is billed as a ‘chilled acoustic evening’ – well, we’ll see about that!
The show will be a little odd for us as we’ll be doing it without a bass-player and without any trousers. But worry ye not because [...]
Classic Lines / June 22 2007
I was thinking last night, as I was working on some new songs, about my passion for popular songwriting in general, and about my appreciation of good lyrics specifically.
Whilst one can often find infamous and markedly badly-written lines and couplets from modern compositions being quoted in magazines, television and radio programmes and across a thousand beer-soaked, [...]
Big Pop Rocks! / May 7 2007
I just thought I would remind you that the Something For The Weekend EP by ENORMOUS is still available as a free download from the enormousreloaded.com website.
The featured tracks, taken from all three ENORMOUS albums for sale on Big Arena Records are:
1/Being Very Fair (taken from the album Electric Baby Grand);
2/Stand Up (taken from the [...]
Lollipop Lollipop / May 2 2007
Nelson Galaxy and I were in San Diego yesterday.
Nelson is launching a new range of lollipops aimed at the musical sweet-toothed transvestite market and he had a meeting with some Californian venture capitalists who are interested in investing in his fruity idea. He took me along for moral support. He was showing off a little, [...]
. . . And All That Jazz / March 24 2007
Aren’t guitars great? I’ve just bought a new one: a gold seventies Fender Jazz Bass. It’s gorgeous.
I don’t play bass much but I needed one for various recording duties and this beauty winked at me in the dusty shop and whispered: ‘We should be together.’
I have several guitars: an 80s black and white Fender Telecaster [...]
Nurse - The Screens! / March 18 2007
It’s easy to criticise the Eurovision Song Contest and the songs that the entrants sing; but spare a thought for all the poor songwriters on Tin Pan Alley, banging away in dusty closets, damp backrooms and frosty booths.
I think we would all agree that, as a whole, the work they produce for the contest isn’t always of [...]
