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Galway Songwriters Club

About Me

The Galway Songwriter's Club was established in autumn 2007 with the following aims.

    To provide a focal point to encourage co-writing to produce better crafted songs. Forget stardom, forget EGO, IT IS ALL ABOUT THE SONGS!

    To provide an outlet to have these songs performed privately in the club and constructively critiqued.

    To provide an outlet to have these songs performed at public events/'Listening Rooms'

    To encourage a community of SONGwriters

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/09/2007
Band Members: Songwriters, doodlers, scribblers, lyricists, musicians, non-musicians and the rest.
Sounds Like: All styles are welcome. No music snobbery here.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

some songwriting tips

A friend and co-writing partner of mine (David Llewellyn) recently shared a useful tool with me. When he is writing a song, at the top of each page, he writes the following two phrases.1. What happene...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:49:00 GMT

Songwriting Workshop Sunday April 20th 11:30am

Hello there!After a short hiatus, The Galway Songwriters club is back with another co-writing session.This co-writing event will take place in Galway City on Sunday April 20th 11:30am, in Terryland (n...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:12:00 GMT

Co-writing event Sunday 18th November, Limited places

Hello All, I will be hosting the first Galway Songwriters Club co-writing event on Sunday 18th November 2007. Places are limited as this particular event will be with a small group (Max 10 writers) an...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:56:00 GMT

First Presentation Of the Songwriters Club

Last saturday night was the first presentation to the public of the Galway Songwriters Club. It was in the Crane Bar and co-presented with Brett Perkins' International Listening Room Series.It drew a ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:06:00 GMT

Who, Where & Why bother?

I am setting up this group to encourage songwriting, co-writing and better crafted songs. I am doing it for two reasons a) altruistic; it is a good thing to do for the music community. b) selfish...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:29:00 GMT