For while now, I haven't written any music. Not a bean. Not even a one line ditty to be stored away under some suitably irrelevant name, and referenced at some point in the distant future. Nothing.
Sure, I've done music. PeopleAreThings are currently recording an album ( please, download 'Games'. For me) - we've been 'currently' recording an album for nearly 2 years now - and I've done bits and pieces for the Hot Donkey boys, including a couple of remixes. But I haven't sat down and actually concentrated on writing something, from scratch, and finishing it off to a state that I'm happy with. It just hasn't happened.
This disturbs me on a number of levels. I've always been able to sit down for a few minutes, record something I'm happy with, and use it as the basis for something bigger, even if I'm not able to progress the idea further at that moment in time.
It's not like I don't have the time. I have plenty of time. I get into work at about 0830hrs, and I'm usually done by 1730hrs on most days. This means I have a good 4 or 5 usable hours before I have to start the whole cycle all over again.
No, the thing that scares me the most is that for a while now, I just haven't been excited by anything I've written. I've sat down, tried things out, shrugged my shoulders and gone and done something else. I took a brief foray into piano-based songs, rather than guitars, and that worked well for a little bit. But now I need something new to keep me occupied.
I just have no idea what it's going to be.
Oh, and P.s. Shameless Plug
Looks like you need some hints and tips: http://rorytufano.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/being-in-band.html
ReplyDeletePlus mate, you light up when you tackle projects posed by other people - I remember way back when we did 'Hot Crosses' you would literally be beaming and getting really involved.
Whilst I love PAT, you certainly have 'a sound' and maybe that is getting a little monotonous. And before you say "yeah, but even my own stuff is boring me and that's nothing like..." - actually it probably is like PAT stuff, once you play with a band that long it is hard to get out of the style which permeates even recreational playing. On a side note I am in Gloucester on Friday night and Saturday morning if you're about.