The One Session Songwriter Challenge

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Wednesday evening (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 27th November: from Friday afternoon you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch511

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. 

We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud Go tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks (and remixes of tracks) that have been previously submitted, and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 511

Bar Pandora "Recreate This" EP out 1st November 23

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Artwork:
Photography by Sinead Patching
Edited by Charlie Tophill

Recreate This

Music by Benji James, Becca Longbottom, Lauren Taylor & Tayla Coetzee
Lyrics by Benji James

Platinum Blonde

Waking Up

OUT 01/12/23 on Pity Party Record Collective. Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Sam Paul Robinson. Mastered by John Elleson-Hartley.

Brand New Baby Boy

Recorded at Offbeat Studios

Kirsty McKinna (Electric Violin & Vocals)
Iain McKinna (Guitars, Bass & Synths)
dave Haswell (Drums & Percussion)

Stick It

That Home (Songwriters 1 session challenge)

How Home can be a place to yearn for, or a place to fear.

cpm + 1957 Fender Champ + Telecaster

Home fries

A celebration of the long suffering lower league footy fan. The song was written as part of a challenge a few of us decided to do on the forum songwriterforum.co.uk. We had to write a song and record it all in a day. The instrumentation had to be one instrument only, plus one vocal line. Simple!

My inspiration was Chesterfield FC, where my Grandad was a turnstile gatekeeper, and he used to take me there as a child. They became Champions of Division Four in 1985, shorty after his death. They have since been relegated out of the football league :(

At Home

All me life been coming down
To this same spot in this old ground
Behind the goals so I could see
This shower of shite in front of me

Cheered me team through thick and thin
But mostly thin, took it on the chin
I’ve stood here moaning, getting tense
We’ve no attack and no defence 

Today the match is haltedp
Pitch invasion by a cat
Our goalie tries to catch it
But our goalie is too fat

The away fans sing
Can we play you every week?
You’re supposed to be at home
Their team score three 
Then they scores four
And we’re not singing anymore
Til some daft prick of ours tries starting
You’ll Never Walk Alone
We naturally groan 
We’re supposed to be at home

Four nil down, here comes the rain 
The stand roof’s leaking once again
Oh blow for half time referee
I need a pie and a mug of tea

And with our pies, my mates and me
Recall our glorious history
It might be thirty years and more
But we were champs of Division Four

And on this spot on this terraced slope
Stood with me Dad and clung to hope
Though he passed on, I’m not alone
I bring my lad here to Home

At Home

(Demo 04 - 08 - 2020a)
V1
Ambition of the worker
Burning more candle ends
Doing more deals, billing more hours
Disappointing more friends
Always a few more mails to send

Bonuses, ladders and acclaim 
Deep down just wanting to feel safe
And I feel the same

CH
Take me home, take me home
All I want is for someone to come along
All I want is someone to take me home

V2
Cephalopod legs on the drunk
She doesn’t know where her coat is
Another lost purse, ripped tights again
No idea where her phone is
Maybe she’ll just sleep where this stone is

Pressure, banter, waste and shame
Deep down just wanting to feel safe 
And I feel the same

CH

V3
Loneliness of the patient 
Trying not to look at your chart
They're here for you, but inside you’re alone
That bleeping sound is your heart
If it stops now will they try to restart?

Near to conceding the game
Deep down just wanting to feel safe
And I feel the same

FINAL CH

(c) 2020, Adam Farr, all rights reserved
Image credit: Johnny Silvercloud https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnysilvercloud/14818809155
CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ (cropped)

Take Me Home

GOING HOME
1+1 One day challenge

I didn't have a clue
you mesmerized my mind
And so I followed you
but you left me behind
I felt so all alone
and every day I cried
But finally, I moved on
and I hid my tears inside

Going home, how could I have foreseen
Going home, at last, I'm finally free
Going home, my friends are calling me
Going home, going home

I've traveled all around
I've been away so long
And nowhere have I found
a place where I feel strong
I need a brand new start
I'm wiser than I was
I know deep in my heart
I was led astray by love

Going home, how could I have foreseen
Going home, at last, I'm finally free
Going home, my friends are calling me
Going home, going home
Going home, I am going home

Copyright © 2020 Vicki Morrison Goble
All rights reserved

Image by Stanly8853 on pixabay.com
(https://pixabay.com/users/stanly8853-4964326/)

Going Home

Hi, thanks for stopping by my Soundcloud page.  I'm a songwriter and novelist from North West England, looking to reach a wider audience with these little treasures of mine.

My three novels, 'Gavin & The Bodysnatchers', 'Sixth Beatle' and ‘Peckersley’s Bird Cafe’ are available through my website - link below. Plus you can find out a lot more about me there.

For music fans on here, you’ll find that my ‘Sixth Beatle’ novel is about a young composer trying to come up with the most perfect piece ever written. What most of us creating on Soundcloud strive for, I guess - but not many come close to achieving! 😁 Why not check it out?

At Home

Michael A