Stuart Newman

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Radio Airplay - 15th July 2008 - BFBS Radio:

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'51st State' played:

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I can’t say I’m a huge Johnny Cash fan, or that I know anything like the main songs he’s written. But having seen the film about the man again, I decided to finish off the song I wrote from his perspective. It was the song I was writing when my soundcard broke recently, and I can only record one take...

Well today, the day I get on the front page of Trig, my soundcard has given up. I now cannot listen to music, or create music. I was currently working on a Johnny Cash-ilk song, and the card stopped working. It's added to a string of unfortunate events in recent months, that has indeed left me in thi...

Well... the future's coming.... and I'm not hopeful. So today, the creative output that surfaced to sum it all up came in the way of 'High and Mighty'....of the 'All by Myself - Green Day - Dookie' type hidden track ilk.... perhaps a hidden track to feature on my album, in that pipedream-pipeline...<...

I was wondering what people thought their top 3 songs of mine, in order of preference were, and top four. (I think companies prefer 3 songs when submiting a demo) When I submit demos to various companies it'd be good to know what the majority of the triggers think. Thanks.

SN

Texture Words.

The irrelevant banter of a salesman’s pitch,

To the scornful hope of scratching an itch,

Above all that is stone to the mimic man’s twitch,

These are the words of a great.

The development of self in order to ride,

A progress from health up to the inside,

A regress that lea...

Right now, my view of the world seems to be from the point of view of me wearing my ‘scepticals’. 90%+ of all the music I’m hearing is either so cliché it hurts, or so experimental and unpalatable I want to scream. The only thing to do is to revisit the 60s and become more obscure with the ba...

The lyrics for my 'Cry Wolf' song were taken from this poem I had written called  "Optimisn't "

Banality of thought,
Clichés all around,
I’ve read it before,
Ideas used to the ground…

I could follow it through,
You could shout at me more,
I could make it all up,
Like I’ve done times before.

I co...

He’s a Card

Sometimes it just feels like,
I'm right, and the rest are left.
How can I please these jokers?
Soulless, left needing; bereft.

Sometimes it just feels like,
I’m sound, but the rest are deaf,
How can I leave these jokers?
Homeless, left seething; a mess.

Sometimes it just fe...

Make Light of the Darkness

I’ve found out that,
It’s easier,
To play the game of theirs,
For I was born,
Alone as me,
Caught up in their affairs.

I’ve read the rules,
It’s simpler,
But the game has little meaning,
For I was torn,
Between a path,
Between Earth’s floor, it...