https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:23:11 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333818 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:53:04 +0000 Its good to see your still the eternal optimist ..
England actually winning a test ...Big call ...LOL
I think the closest England will come to winning will be a draw , and thats due to the weather ..
Not being a smart Rs but I can't see where the English strengths are to actually win ...
Sorry
And sorry Chris for contaiminating your thread with cricket LOL..

Trev]]> Sunday Songwriters Group BarnaBus RoX https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333818 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333805 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:24:35 +0000
"Listen, and understand. Those Australians are out there. They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are beaten!" (To paraphrase a couple of lines from a famous film!)

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - if Lillee don't get you, Thommo must!"

Seems like we got lucky four years ago - then again, all we did was make you angry! I'm still trying to forget the result of the last series in Australia.....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333805 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333772 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:17:40 +0000
I have not laughed so much in ages , this is fair dinkum brilliant ...
I love the true Aussie this guy is , looking down a shirt ...I was thinking to myself strewth 26 years ago I could have been that guy , but I didn't have a green haired girl ..The one I had did rattle tho LMAO ...
Well done mate , have been a fan of yours for a while now and the more you record the more I enjoy it ...
Maybe Vic could add some lead guitar that sounds like a the bike revving up ..
Come Vic stop watching the cricket LOL
Cheers
Trev..]]> Sunday Songwriters Group BarnaBus RoX https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333772 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333768 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:37:30 +0000
I'm glad that you enjoyed the humorous side of it. Funnily enough that description of the four stroke cycle (suck, squeeze, etc.) has been around at least half a century, and was already old when I was at engineering college forty years back. At the time it was just an easy way to remember the sequence of intake, compression, power and exhaust strokes because of the alliteration effect of the two s words and two b words. I don't recall it being thought of as particularly naughty or having all the alternative meanings they might have now. I certainly didn't set out with the pre-planned intention to write a song with all those double-entendres, so it's a sometimes a mystery where in the ancient brain these thing pop up from. But when you get on a roll it's hard to stop, and it did seem to fit together pretty well....

I also managed to track somebody down last week who gives singing lessons, so I'm hoping to take a few and see if I can get better control, accuracy, range etc. It's been hard to find anybody at all, and when I finally found one I had visions that he'd be some tweedy old opera buff. But it turns out that he's not long out of the local Academy of Performing Arts, teaches singing to lots of kids, and is also the singer and manager of a busy working band. So I'm looking forward to that, and hoping he can help me improve.

Friends staying for the weekend, so I'd better nip back downstairs (I'm supposed to be up here printing out a list of riders in the Tour De France for us all to refer to) but I just wanted to say thanks for posting, before the week expires again. Thanks also for giving the song the time test. Very encouraging to know that you still laughed. :)

Cheers,

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333768 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333742 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:40:31 +0000 It is.

The MP3's well put together too - the music's just right, nicely paced and the vocals are - well, very Jake Thackray! You've nicked his style a little, but hell, we've all been guilty of that over the years!

All I can say mate, BRAVO! and well done. Great stuff.

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333742 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333613 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:15:38 +0000
I'll try and do a better recording in the next day or two. In the meantime I've edited out the bit where I stuffed up a line twice in a row and then had an impromptu rehearsal in the middle of the take.... not good....


Cheers,

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333613 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333611 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:09:59 +0000
The last section consider showing some more commitment between them instead of just describing them as "together"....he gets a new tattoo with her name or picture she gets a new piercing or tattoo and adds a toe ring or traditional ring....maybe a middle finger ring to show off her pride and joy :lol: ....you seem to have the market on unique this week so I'll let you fill in the change in their attire.....
Thanks for the comments James. :) Good ideas, so I'll mull them over and see how I could work them in. At the moment I'm still welded to the rapid fire punch-line about the tuning up, followed by the gentler reprise, but it will have cooled off a bit by tomorrow, so I'll see if I can perhaps adapt the reprise to provide some more detail.

Hey Chris

you always reminded me of Jake Thackray and those times when me and my Dad used to sit and laugh at the radio.... I have you to thank in part for for the Jake Thackray style, as it was you who drew the parallel a while back. I hadn't spotted it before, but I always enjoyed him, and I could do a lot worse for a role model. So it makes me feel better about the fact that my songs steadfastly refuse to be rocky or truly bluesy, knowing that there is at least something of a tradition of comic style songs to try and follow.

You might also be amused to hear that I was about to press the record button when I noticed that her first words were:

“Ow duz it work then, yer ugly machine”

Shock! Horror! A clear inversion for the sake of a rhyme... Dylan will nail me back for that one... So I gave her a couple of sentences instead... phew...

I also initially had these lines:

Her eyes grew wide, her breathing quick, her nipple bells were tinkling
“What happens next?” she whispered “I haven't got an inkling”

But after rhyming voyeuristic with ballistic last week I thought that I might be stretching my luck just a bit too far with that one... :wink:

I'd like to be a fly on the wall at the wedding where that was the first dance though... 
I'll make sure you get an invite.

Cheers,

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333611 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333608 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:49:08 +0000
I read this earlier, and have been meaning to get on post comment. It's officially in my "wish I'd written it" pile, I love this song. It gets stronger and stronger as the song progresses too, which is always a good thing, imho. There's really nothing I can be critical of, and nothing I think needing improvement. Really glad you managed to find time to write this one; lyrically, it's a keeper (I've DL'd the track and will give listen to it also).

It may not fit the "generic wedding first dance song" category, but I'd def play this at my wedding! Otoh, in discussing potential wedding songs this week, I did also say I'd like to hear The Vandals' My Girlfriend's Dead, and a drum and bass remix with the laugh of Nelson from the Simpsons played over the top as the main vox. If I ever do get hitched, it's gonna be an interesting one. :roll: :lol:]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Scrybe https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333608 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333603 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:24 +0000
props, Chris -- now that's the way to represent!]]> Sunday Songwriters Group gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333603 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333601 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:37:08 +0000 Yep, it put a grin on my face too.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr-7-week-36-back-to-banbury/#post-333601