songwriter song writer a message from andy

hi everyone. I am sitting writing this in melbourne, about to get ready to go back on the road - or, rather, into an aeroplane headed for europe. to encounter once more the closing steel doors of 'international departures' and go back on tour. the new album booklet is sitting on my desk, the CD playing on the stereo. after spending a long time with it in my head, I've been driving round with it in the car for a while now, and would like to tell you something about the songs and recordings.
musicians spend a lot of time on the internet nowadays doing nothing more than this and that. socially connecting and organizing stuff. this kind of thing was uncool in years gone by (what did we do all day - stay in bed, drink or write?) but it's just part of what you have to do now. however, one thing that does get lost sometimes is a focus on the songs themselves.
I wrote the new album songwriter over a number of years with a series of friends. I then took the songs and recorded them live in the studio.
I didn't start off planning it that way but, looking back, this was the opposite approach to my previous album garageband - which was written in fourteen days, and then recorded all over the world over the period of about a year or so.
in short, there are many sites you'll go to where you'll hear about what's going on - the tour, the video and so on, but here is where you can find out about the songs. perhaps I'll be able to work out how to put them online, perhaps you'll have to come to a show or buy the album to hear them (I am not quite sure right now). I never take it for granted that another album will ever come out, so I'm just happy it's sitting in front of me right now, and playing loud on the stereo.
here are links to the stories of the individual songs. hope it's interesting. I know they've stayed with me since the early days of writing the cycle which has gone to make songwriter, and hope they do the same for you.