Scrapheap

Scrapheap

Well guys,  this is the final song of the project! Today’s song is called “Scrapheap” and was written in response to the Morning Star’s headline “Thrown On The Scrapheap”. The story concerns employees of the firm Remploy being forced to take cumpulsory redundancy – despite many of them being disabled. I can sympathise with these people as my town, Kilmarnock, lost one of its last great employers this year when the drinks giant Diageo closed the Johnnie Walker whisky plant. 

I know it seems like I’m ending the project on a bit of a downer, but I’ve tried to make the song as upbeat as possible despite the lyrics. I hope you like it and I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to all my efforts over the past week.

Listen to Scrapheap here: https://soundcloud.com/not-the-news/scrapheap

Andy K

Change Everything

Change Everything

Hey people, how you doing? I hope you’re better than me, I’ve caught a nasty cold so my singing voice isn’t quite what I’d like it to be right now. Still, onwards and upwards! Today’s song is called “Change Everything” and was written in response to the Daily Telegraph’s headline “£2bn of UK aid to help Third World go green”. I chose this headline in light of a slow news day and most papers still fawning over Britain’s royal family’s good news (fair play to them, but it doesn’t half make for some same-y headlines!). In this song I examine how money affects people and if it really can change things for the better for people in unfortunate circumstances and situations.

Have a listen to the song here: https://soundcloud.com/not-the-news/change-everything

I’ll be back tomorrow with another news-related song. In the meantime, enjoy the song and keep well!

Andy K

Walk Out To Nothing

Walk Out To Nothing

Hey guys, hope you’re well. Today’s song is based on the Glasgow Herald’s headline “Creative Scotland chief quits after artists’ revolt”. I chose this newspaper today because in Britain most newspapers are running with the front page story that the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first child and I didn’t think I could write a song based on that without sounding cheesy and a bit clichéd. The issue I wrote about concerns the head of Creative Scotland stepping down from his post and the lyrics imagine what it would be like if artists from across the creative spectrum stopped creating art and also imagines the what if of art stopping to exist.

You can listen to the track HERE: http://soundcloud.com/not-the-news/walk-out-to-nothing

I hope you like it guys – I’ll be back tomorrow with another effort from a different newspaper.

Andy K

The Buck Stops Here – first track ready!

Hi guys – it’s been a busy day indeed. Anyway, today’s song is now ready for you guys to hear and it’s called “The Buck Stops Here”. Today’s headline comes from The Metro and it reads “Tax: Now the Bucks stops with Amazon”. The story concerns the large companies Amazon, Google and Starbucks all having ways of avoiding paying corporation tax in Britain – in the view of many people, cheating the system. From this I equated one form of cheating to another within a relationship and getting found out – loosely connected.

I’m pleased to the the project off the ground after planning it for a while. I’d love to hear what you think of it – good or bad – so have a listen and share it with everyone you know from your best pal to your Gran to that dog that lives five doors down!

Andy K

Listen to The Buck Stops Here

Feature in MiddleMusic

Feature in MiddleMusic

Very happy to see that my friends at middlemusic.net have given the project a boost by publishing this article on their site. Their site is a very good guide to what’s going on right now in the Scottish music scene (and in the general music scene too), so check ’em out!

I’m still planning today’s effort out at the present moment, so come back in a few hours and I’ll have the first tune for you!

 

Andy K