Creativity
Songwriting Mentorship with Greig Watts: Persistence and Rejection
“My grandfather used to say, aim for the moon and you might catch a star on the way down. And at his funeral, I gave a sort of eulogy and told everyone this story and said, ‘I assume everyone’s heard this one from him because he was a storyteller.’ There were about a hundred people […]
Songwriting for Eurovision and Global Music Markets with Greig Watts
“I’ve been, so one of my writer friends who I published, a guy called Ian Curnow, he was one of the producers behind “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley and “Stay Another Day” by East 17 and Kylie. He was a big producer, and I took him to Eurovision. He was the first […]
AI and the Future of Music: A Conversation with Drew Thurlow
AI and the Future of Music: Innovation, Creativity, and Consistency with Drew Thurlow “I have a friend who’s a library film composer and produces podcasts, and I was talking to him, I was giving him the kind of same thesis I talked about today. And he’s like, ‘yeah, I get it. But like, I’m […]
From Walkman to AI: A Conversation with Drew Thurlow
From Walkman to AI: How Technology is Transforming Music – A Conversation with Drew Thurlow “And we got a new Beatles song. I can’t believe we’re talking about the Beatles…. But John Lennon recorded a really corrupted vocal before he tragically died, and it was just kind of there because of some stem separation tech […]
The Universal Language of Music: A Conversation with Stephen Ridley – Part 2
The Universal Language of Music: A Conversation with Stephen Ridley – Part 2 “And then his youngest daughter, who’s six years old, comes up, and she’s into gymnastics and she’s kind of cartwheeling around the room while everyone else is playing. And then, ‘All right, she’s going to play you a song.’ And she comes […]
The Power of Music: A Conversation with Stephen Ridley – Part 1
The Power of Music: A Conversation with Stephen Ridley – Part 1 “Chick invited me to go to this jazz club in Soho called Ronnie Scott’s in London. And it was, like, two o’clock in the morning – I was like, ‘I don’t think it’s gonna be open.’ I did not know who I was […]