Monday 24 December 2012

Galatic Solar Flare

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Galatic Solar Flare at Glasto 2013...

Almost through 2012, one more song to go and we'll embark on the 2013 sessions!

only 30 more songs to go...Galatic Solar Flare

Monday 17 December 2012

Santa De La Rocha

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Santa De La Rocha at Glasto 2013...

In the past few years my family has grown from having to buy for three people to now having to buy for twenty three people ...explosion!!

but in a great way

however, best not to forget that Christmas can be crap for some people, its not all mice pies and mulled wine.... Santa De La Rocha

Monday 10 December 2012

Close In Our Heart

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Close In Our Heart at Glasto 2013...

Death. There I've said it, a song about losing someone from this earth but finding them in ourselves making us stronger

Monday 3 December 2012

Got This One

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Got This One at Glasto 2013...

Do you live in a cave away from the world? No neither do I, but some do. . .Got This One

Tuesday 27 November 2012

Tiger Stripes

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Tiger Stripes at Glasto 2013...

My brain feels a little broken today and clarity as a mere dream away...Tiger Stripes

Tuesday 20 November 2012

[…] Keeps The World Spinning

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform […] Keeps The World Spinning at Glasto 2013...

Who keeps your world spinning?

[…] Keeps The World Spinning

Monday 12 November 2012

Dreams of a Grizzly Bear

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Dreams of a Grizzly Bear at Glasto 2013...

Don't let the days fly by, tune your day to the daily play

Dreams . of . a Grizzly . Bear.

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Universal Heartbeat

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Universal Heartbeat at Glasto 2013...

I'm sure the combined sound of everyone's heartbeat would be deafening, combined with the sound of the ocean, it.would.blow.your.ears.off...Universal Heartbeat

Sunday 28 October 2012

King of this Failing Town

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform King of this Failing Town at Glasto 2013...

Boarded up windows, derelict shops stuffed full of forgotten treasures you can fall with the town or pucker up, grab your broom, find a sound system and make something of your town...

We are all...King of this Failing Town

Sunday 21 October 2012

Horses

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Horses at Glasto 2013...

Feeling the pressure of a busy life at the moment, not been in the flat too much and this is a song primarily about putting socks on and going to the beach....horses

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Illliiinn

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Illliiinn at Glasto 2013...

Man flu alert, I've spent more time in bed than on dry land in the last few days and have disposed of enough tissues to build a small damn across a big river, be better next week maybe!...Illliiinn

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Who'dyafinkyaR

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Who'dyafinkyaR at Glasto 2013...

OK, so first attempt to purchase Glasto tickets failed at the weekend, resale in April, hopefully I'll be n the bill by that point so won't have to purchase a ticket....

that's how it works isn't it??....Who'dyafinkyaR

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Just Steppin Out

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Just Steppin Out at Glasto 2013...

Someone called me 'wrong' the other day, but I guess in our own way we are all wrong, or indeed all right, depends on which way you fancy looking at the world doesn't it!

Just Steppin Out

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Shitty Chicken Song

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Shitty Chicken Song at Glasto 2013...

Erm, this sounds like I recorded it in a toilet through the on board mic on the Mac with a really old acoustic guitar who's strings haven't been changed for over 15 years...oh that's what I did do

please dont judge me...Shitty Chicken Song

Monday 17 September 2012

Monopothelo

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Monopothelo at Glasto 2013...

Wouldn't know how to play this live but then that's what happens when you play around with sounds....still I'd work it out for Glasto!...Monopothelo

Monday 10 September 2012

DriveCampSurfSleep

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform DriveCampSurfSleep at Glasto 2013...

So I may, perhaps have my mind still in Devon, on a beach, in the sun, falling off my surf board over and over again...

time to roll out the CamperVan...DriveCampSurfSleep

Monday 3 September 2012

Soft Kiss Hard Wall

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Soft Kiss Hard Wall at Glasto 2013...

We all have good days and days when things can seem hard and the world is against us but if we keep hold of the good times and fight through the bad with a smile (and a chat with friends or strangers!) it aint as bad as it can sometimes seem... Soft Kiss Hard Wall

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Forever (and the rest)

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Forever (and the rest) at Glasto 2013...

Devon. surfing. hurting arms. that is all. Forever (and the rest)

Monday 20 August 2012

Noble Nomad

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Noble Nomad at Glasto 2013...

A year ago tomorrow (21st August 2011) I had one song, Italian Widow, I thought this song was pretty good and it had only taken me half a day or so to write and record.... I then hatched a plan...

A nice simple easy plan.... Play Glastonbury

Hmm I wonder, if I write and record a brand new, original song every week until Glastonbury 2013 perhaps someone will let me play!?

Foolish, naive, nobber, whichever way, I have now completed an entire year, 52 songs in 52 weeks and will keep doing this until someone lets me onto a stage at Glasto...2013? 2014? 2015? I’ll keep writing GOD DAMN IT!!!

Anyway, if you want to bask in the glorious(??) sounds of the past year then please click on the months, years and song titles on the right of the screen, 52 songs (2 with vids) await you (and counting)

This week however, is Noble Nomad...

Monday 13 August 2012

MisterMasterMan

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform MisterMasterMan at Glastonbury 2013...

Nice little play around with some synths this week, my guitar is so filthy and needs some new strings, so we have some electronic sounds. beep beep beeeeeeeeep... MisterMasterMan

Tuesday 7 August 2012

30th Olympiad (London 2012, I've been watching)

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform 30th Olympiad (London 2012, I've been watching) at Glasto 2013...<p> And deary me have I been watching, hours and hours spent glued to sports I know little about but within an afternoon become an expert! The magic of the Olympics...Go team GB... Week 50, the half century, half way through my marathon <p>

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Tuesday 31 July 2012

Another Adventure

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Another Adventure at Glasto 2013...

Back on the internet but alas, still a day late so will remedy this next week unless somehow on earth I manage to get an Olympic ticket...Another Adventure

Tuesday 24 July 2012

OneFingerOneThumb

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform OneFingerOneThumb at Glastonbury 2013...

Back on track, although still no internet in the flat. GAHHHHHH!

This almost had a horrendous rap in the middle but through puffy tired eyes I decided against it, all vocals done in one take very quietly as the whole of the block was asleep when I was recording and I have no soundproofing...OneFingerOneThumb

Thunder Mountain

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Thunder Mountain at Glastonbury 2013...

Although his post looks like it's a week late and I may not have been hiding away writing songs like I should have been it's actually because of the stupid internet. Please see example A below:

Clearly it was put onto my iTunes at home a week ago but due to failure of a certain broadband company I have failed to upload it. Challenge still on...Thunder Mountain

Monday 23 July 2012

Agghhh internet

Internet problems are still getting in the way of posting songs, although I did complete last weeks song I still have no internet at home. I have also constantly forgotten to bring my memory stick home from work to retrieve the song and now a full week has gone by...

note to self. fix internet.

Tuesday 10 July 2012

Ambulance (the sound of)

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Ambulance (the sound of) at Glastonbury 2013...

working day behind myself as no internet at home but thanks to the magic that is memory sticks I can transport music around wherever I may go, that has nothing to do with the song though which is about...Ambulance (the sound of)

Monday 2 July 2012

Tea Leaf

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Tea Leaf at Glastonbury 2013...

Offspring make me wanna mosh, listening to the Kerrang! Radio DJ's rubbish their new song made me laugh, having my bike stolen made me sad, Saturday was a funny day...Tea Leaf

Monday 25 June 2012

Do You Wanna (go to the movies)

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Do You Wanna (go to the movies) at Glastonbury 2013...

I've been asked to play at the Cine-East fringe festival this coming weekend so I though a movie tinted song was in order, I remember watching Evil Dead 2 at a friends house in school, we spent the whole film laughing and screaming as I hadn't ever seen anything like it before! Many horror B-movies later, I still love them...Do You Wanna (go to the movies)

Tuesday 19 June 2012

Fishing for Takeaway

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Fishing for Takeaway at Glastonbury 2013...

Been all carried away with the Euros and England and what not (go team 11!) so uploaded this to Facebook last night but forgot to do the actual bloody blog post...anyway a song about getting a takeaway whilst being stranded at sea...Fishing for takeaway

Tuesday 12 June 2012

Short Music

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Short Music at Glastonbury 2013...

This is inspired by Short Music for Short People which has 101 bands playing 30 second songs (The Mr.T Experience and Descendants being particularly brilliant) this was a great introduction to some amazing punk bands and opened a world away from the 3 minute single! It also always came in useful when trying to make a compilation tape hit exactly 45 minutes (C90) or 30 minutes (C60)...Short Music

Monday 4 June 2012

Your Phone is Their CCTV

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Your Phone is Their CCTV at Glastonbury 2013...

After spending some time in a cove, living off freshly caught fish in view of nobody but the sun, the birds and the saltwater inhabitants, I returned to find my dusty phone wanting to update lots of apps. I soon clocked that 100million people have updated their Facebook Android app signing the T's & C's that allow Facebook to read their text messages, access and record audio from their handset and take photo's at any timefrom their camera phone.

I've reconciled myself with the fact that we are watched by CCTV in public places and that Facebook and other apps sell our data to 3rd parties but for a company to have access to the camera on my phone and the audio that accompanies this is nothing more than the Owellian World detailed in 1984. You'll know which one is my phone, it'll be the one with the microphone picked out, gaffa tape over the lens and no Facebook application installed...Your Phone is Their CCTV

Monday 28 May 2012

Esquath Lane

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Esquath Lane at Glastonbury 2013...

I try not to link a 'bad area' in the eyes of the media with fear, when you know an area the dark wierd looking lanes come alive and are not so dark. I live in hackney and it gets a bad rep but all in all it's a pretty good place to live. Good pubs, good kebabs, cheap(ish) housing and we've got the new RouteMaster - yeah take that Greenwich! But however long you live somewhere there are still some lanes that look dodgy as F=*k ... Esquath Lane

Monday 21 May 2012

Like Farmer Like Sun

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Like Farmer Like Sun at Glastonbury 2013...

Now I'm no farmer, I have a balcony it gets some good action, carrots, herbs, strawberry's beetroot, usually enough for a few meals every year. However if I had a field (or an allotment) I could grow loads of stuff, purple sprouting broccoli would be amazing, not very rock'n'roll but amazing... Like Farmer Like Sun

Monday 14 May 2012

Zombie Island

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Zombie Island at Glastonbury 2013...

Oh how lovable zombies have become, just think of olde Nick Frost at the end of Sean of the Dead, just wanna hug him don't you...no biting, especially on Zombie Island

Monday 7 May 2012

Greatest (horror) show on Earth

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Greatest (horror) show on Earth at Glastonbury 2013...

The Circus fascinates me, I love the variety and skill of the performers but cannot help (probably due to movies) thinking that there is a murky underworld that the Circus revolves around, a path to the darker side of live, a path away from this normal realm of ours... Greatest (horror) show on Earth

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Oozing Swell of Sewers

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Oozing Swell of Sewers at Glastonbury 2013...

There's a lot of crap literally under our feet, we don't notice it on a daily basis but sometimes the sewers explode and reveal the swell of badness that's close at hand... Oozing Swell of Sewers

Monday 23 April 2012

Enslave the Human Race

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Enslave the Human Race at Glastonbury 2013...

Now I love robots, I really do, but I cannot fathom out the obsession with making them stronger, bigger and better than humans, they will turn on their masters, they will create an uprising and they will Enslave the Human Race...


Monday 16 April 2012

Body Rests at the Whisky Bar

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Body Rests at the Whisky Bar at Glasto 2013...

They say the wild west was pretty wild but is it as wild as the wild East London...BOOM! Nah not really, a song loosely based on a cowboy gunfight... Body Rests at the Whisky Bar (woops spelled whiskey wrong but done the artwork now so it will stay as whisky)

Tuesday 10 April 2012

Sheepish Pandas

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Sheepish Pandas at Glasto 2013...

Wow, that Bank holiday went quickly, so quick I'm a day late posting again. Must do better! Anyhow, sometimes you think you have no control and things just keep on plodding along and then slap bang, you know what, things do change! Sheepish Pandas

Monday 2 April 2012

Sparkle Gone

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Sparkle Gone at Glasto 2013...

Wages are stagnant, redundancies are peeping around every corner, everything seems to be going up in price and if you can afford a house it's tiny, I saw one without a bath the other day... Sparkle Gone

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Sunsunsusnun

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Sunsunsusnun at Glasto 2013...

A day late due to being oober busy and heading out the See Willy Mason last night (legend and amazing!) but wrote this on Saturday morning with a bright outlook on life on a sunny balcony... Sunsunsusnun

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Batteries Are Included (to activate escape)

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Batteries Are Included (to activate escape) at Glasto 2013...

OK, so I live in London and i know that people are Londoncentric and don't look beyond the M25 but I grew up in a small town and headed for the big city lights as soon as I know they existed! This works both ways, you can't stay in London forever, even if it just for a weekend to get some surfing in....Batteries Are Included (to activate escape)

Monday 12 March 2012

Bad Idea

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Bad Idea at Glasto 2013...

Ok, so it's got a namesake with the 'A' song...oh what you don't remember that? Oh well, they ruled and I spent many a night popped up crowd surfing and the like, anyway, Bad Idea wanted to as filthy as Sleigh Bells but won't ever make it with my recording skills. Still good tune though...Bad Idea

Monday 5 March 2012

Rhythmic Aviators

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Rhythmic Aviators at Glasto 2013...

Converse (other trainers are available) my canvas feet, wearable everyday until giant holes appear due to spilled drink and excessive dancing, I love my canvas trainers and always dance like...Rhythmic Aviators

Monday 27 February 2012

(Don't Be) Eating PVA Glue

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform (Don't Be) Eating PVA Glue at Glasto 2013...

Sometimes singing is hard, sometimes tough even the simplest task as talking to someone just won't happen...(Don't Be) Eating PVA Glue

Monday 20 February 2012

This lift will take you up but it can't buy class

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform This lift will take you up but it can't buy class at Glasto 2013...

We were swiftly moved from the bar the other day after a 'celeb' came in, I mean I had my only suit on and purple sparkly shoes, was that not enough effort....oh well...This lift will take you up but it can't buy class

Saturday 18 February 2012

The Pencil Sharks get talked to by The Vibe Detectvie

Taken from an interview with The Vibe Detective 2011

The Pencil Sharks [have] a "burning desire to play Glastonbury 2013". In pursuit of this aim he has developed a unique marketing strategy which involves appealing directly to Emily Eavis, and recording a song a week with the hope that he can "cobble 10 good ones for a Glastonbury set".

The Pencil Sharks' songs to date are imaginative both lyrically and instrumentally, and to my mind Ms. Eavis would be ill advised to ignore the opportunity to book them.

I had to swim like Jacques Cousteau on speed, but I managed to catch up with The Pencil Shark(s) and put some questions to him:


Are you able to reveal your true identity, the man behind The Pencil Sharks?

Hmm...he ponders (what am I The Game or something, referring to myself in the third person) I wasn’t aware that I had created even a hint of mystery...who is the man behind TPS but seems as fate has dealt that hand I’ll keep it that way for a bit...I am a man, I’m in my twenties and that’s all you’re getting but I’ll be sure to put a call into Corey Taylor to see who makes Slipknot’s masks so i can keep myself hidden for a bit longer

Have you been a part of other bands or musical projects?

Yes, but then answering this would reveal who I am...you’re sneaky Vibe Detective...SnEakY.... I will say though that I started as a guitarist in Honeymoon Super Stimulator (I’m pretty sure nothing on the internet exists of HSS but it’s still one of my fav band names of all time so worth a mention!) I then played drums but Im not telling you who for as one Google search will reveal my identity...oh the horror!

You aim to write and record one song a week as part of your campaign – I make that over 80 songs before Glastonbury 2013. Is the well of your creativity that deep?

Who knows? I hope so, I’ll look like a bit of a dick otherwise! I’m sure there will be some songs that I write that turn out to be utter crap but I initially set out to force myself into finishing songs, not just writing a chorus or a catchy riff and then being lazy and doing nothing about it. It’s a bit of a silly number of songs, at present I’m happily catching time here and there and sitting down with the guitar and computer and working towards my Sunday deadline but the time available changes dramatically week to week already I’ve had to cram a full song from inception to recording in about an hour or so frantically listening to drum tracks and messing about with lyrics...this is not advisable....

Do you plan to release some of the songs in album form?

Man, that would be awesome wouldn’t it! A 4 heavy weight vinyl box set....mmm tasty! If I did I’d like it to be tactile, not just a download or CD but a big extravaganza. Laura Marling did a wicked box set of her first album with a lyric book and posters and even a board game...that’s the future, songs easily get lost in the mass hysteria of my iTunes, how are you suppose to remember that once you liked that song from that band who split up and only released one single when you’ve got thousands of other tracks vying for your mp3 based attention. People need something to hold, something to look at and also more time away from the computer, I do almost everything through my Mac so a break from the screen to listen to vinyl/tape/CD is good...read the sleeve notes!
Having said that, without the rise of the mp3 I would be having to cut a vinyl every week and forcibly harrass strangers into taking them outside Camden Tube steadily becoming more famous than the Jesus guy or the woman with all the books in the shopping trolly

Do you have any non-Glastonbury live performances planned?


Not as yet, I need to spend some time working out the hell to play these live if iI was on my lonesome... I‘ve seen Scrappy from Milk Kan playing with some form of backing track - but not in an X-Factor kinda way - so perhaps I’ll look at that, although I did once get trapped at an open mic where this guy was playing to a backing track, he only did three songs - song one to a half full basement - song two, people slowly moving upstairs and by the time he was half way through his last song even the soundguy had left, it was crazy, just me and a couple of mates stayed the distance with our claps echoing around the basement. I felt a bit sorry for him but hey, GarageBand can give even the most reclusive of people a full sounding band

It’s early stages I know, but have you had any response from Ms. Eavis yet? Or from anyone else?

She’s tweeted but only to say that it’s a bit early to be thinking about Glasto 2013, which is fair enough it’s ages away! Whether she’s had a listen I can neither confirm nor deny!

Do you have any other tactics to enact regarding drawing her attention?

What apart from cycling around the West Country with TPS songs booming out of a Ghetto Blaster gaffa taped to my bike....not as yet
One man on his own might look a bit lost on the Glasto main stage. Will you outdo Beyonce solely with the force of your music?
By the power of Greyskull! I haven’t really thought about any live performances as yet although I have always wanted to play a gig in a mirrored box but Battles did that in one of their music vids so I guess that’s out the window now? In previous musical incarnations I have played Halloween gigs alongside zombies and ghosts, had a dancetroup take over half of Peter Parkers Rock n Roll Club and I always wanted to make my hi-hat look like the SMASH robots..hmm ...Something to rival The Flaming Lips would be epic, or pull out something akin to Rosie riding the RocknRoll train like AC/DC....doesn’t the guy who does the voices of Zippy and Bungle now do pyrotechnics? Maybe he’ll be my first call or maybe I’ll just go all Donovan and get me a purple velvet skin tight T-shirt and play the whole gig sat down!!?

Would you consider expanding your personnel if any apt and able musicians presented themselves to you?

For sure, already got some mates in mind to form a huge band, it could be Gasto you’ve got to try and make it epic!

Bedfordshire and Islington feature in your songs – which is your ‘manor’?


Clapton, East London, E5, love it!

I could be wrong but I seem to detect the influence of Captain Beefheart in your songs. Are you the bastard offspring of the late Don Van Vliet? Or perhaps you have the voice of Mark E. Smith whispering in your ear?

Alas, no, my father isn’t Beefheart! I’ve given Trout Mask Replica many listens but that’s the only album I have of his...maybe I should invest in some more... there are a lot of influences swirling especially Seth ov Dufus and the whole NY Anti-Folk scene. I remember seeing Dufus for the first time in Stoke-on-trent (they were billed as friends of The Strokes, yes about 10 years ago....) but on stage didn’t come some hipster New Yorkers but a 12 piece band of multi-coloured wandering musicians playing music that literally blew my mind!The man is a mad genius and should be part of the school curriculum. FACT! Alongside this Jeff lewis, The Moldy Peaches, the Purple Organ...they just were all making music for themselves, for each other and although it was/is still massively lo-fi the whole scene just was amazing and some of the best live shows I’ve ever seen (without lasers/pyros/inflatable train riding Rosie etc) oh and Mark.E.Smith, yes, I love the fact that he is such a love/hate kinda guy, he divides opinion hugely, there is nothing bland about The Fall and that’s kinda what music should be about, bland music and bland bands should not be aloud
 
Thanks for your time.

You rule! TPS x

original source:
http://thevibedetective.moonfruit.com/#/the-pencil-sharks/4555819962

Monday 13 February 2012

FIZZ

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform FIZZ at Glasto 2013...

Umami, that other taste and so very tasty, marmite like flavour, as your taste buds develop thiings get tastier and things you once loved don't seem to taste as good as they did - and are smaller, definitely smaller. Even though I know it'll make me feel bad after the event I cannot help but on occasion eat a big massive pile of sweets until the roof of my mouth hurts and I know the impending crash is upon me. It's the 'we give you five days you give us two...on those two hell will be raised...FIZZ

Monday 6 February 2012

Embroidery for Beginners

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Embroidery for Beginners at Glasto 2013...

Next week sees the 6 month mark since I started this blog and this is song number 25. Never have I written this consistently, usually there's a focus on sharpening up songs for a live show and then the writing stops in favour of rehearsing. I'm really quite proud of my big pot of songs and although some are a little worse for wear, I genuinely think some are stompers!

Just shows what you can achieve with a goal and the attitude of 'just do it' (other corporate strap lines are available) if it's drawing, knitting, songwriting, story telling or embroidery just 'turn off that TV set and do something more interesting instead' (other kids TV themes are available)...Embroidery for Beginners...

Tuesday 31 January 2012

Slow Loris

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Slow Loris at Glasto 2013...

The first instrumental of DearEmilyEavis the name comes from the Slow Loris documentary that was on the Beeb - don't keep them as pets, they belong in the wild. The final song ended up being all a little bit Penguin Cafe Orchestra (ish)

Monday 23 January 2012

Kids Have Flown

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Kids Have Flown at Glasto 2013...

You can never tell how someone has lived their life until you have a chat with them (or read their memoirs I guess) but generally I think that young folk think that old folk never had a life, I guess that's wrong, everyone has dreams and has stories to tell, some happy some sad. Perhaps you know someone who lives alone with a story to tell? Kids Have Flown...

Kids Have Flown by Thepencilsharks

Monday 16 January 2012

The Depths

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform The Depths at Glasto 2013...

Where does the week go, where does the day go...where did the last hour go, oh into The Depths

The Depths by Thepencilsharks

Tuesday 10 January 2012

Mr.Westwood

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Mr.Westwood at Glasto 2013...

There's a very well used phone box that I can see from my flat. Come on people this is 2012, phone boxes, even kids have mobiles...oh, it's for drugs, oh Mr.Westwood

Mr.Westwood 1 by Thepencilsharks

Force La Resolution

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Force La Resolution at Glasto 2013...

Arrggghhhh new year, new rules, resolutions and hangovers but only you can make it better. better...Force La Resolution (forgot to upload this last week...ooops)

Force La Resolution by Thepencilsharks