Hi Justin, thanks for the reply. I’m an electrical engineer working on the Astute class Nuclear Subs up in Cumbria for my sins. I mentioned about my being a bit of an inventor. I have a simple website that explains what I do better than I can here. The site is down at the moment while I tidy it up a bit. I’ll post a link as soon as it is up and running again.
Bit of a strange tale to tell with the song. Many years ago, I wrote a Christmas poem for a competition. However, I never did enter it and there it stayed, filed away under “seemed like a good idea at the time”. Some years later I dreamt I was on stage playing guitar and performing a song. There were no lyrics that I could remember but the melody was clear enough for me to write it down the next day. I played around with the idea for a while before it got filed in the same “good ideas” cabinet as the poem. There they both lay, in the dark and all but forgotten.
That brings us up to this Christmas. Someone at a party made a chance remark that there are no decent Christmas songs around any more. We just get normal X Factor type fare that could be released any time of the year and none of it is really festive. That night I had an epiphany (not my guitar) and actually got up during the night to look at the poem and the tune I had tucked away many years ago. They were a match made in heaven, which was actually quite freaky. Since then, I have been working on a song based around these ideas and have the melody and lyrics complete (I can't write music so it is all tabbed). However, I now need to refine things a bit but it is pretty much there. It is a bit of a rocker, perhaps a hint of a Status Quo influence but certainly not a Quo song.
I must admit that telling people I am writing a 70’s style Christmas song does make me cringe a bit. It almost seems naff. However, once I am confident it looks ok, I will post something on here for you all to have a look at.
Cheers.
