Ardie Collins

That EP I did is now available on iTunes and Spotify

Posted on 14 May, 2012 by Ardie Collins

I released an EP last month. It’s been on my Bandcamp since then for free streaming and paid download, but I also decided to distribute it by iTunes and Spotify as a bit of an experiment to see how that works. I just heard today that it’s become available on both of these things. So if you were so inclined the album is available for download from iTunes (they set the price unfortunately, so I can’t change that), and for free streaming on Spotify (or below on the new fancy Spotify widget thing (you have to be an existing Spotify user to use it, though, I think)).

And have yourself a new song I wrote today for good measure, kid. Don’t mention it.

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8 Songwriting Tips (That Seem To Work For Me, At Least)

Posted on 12 May, 2012 by Ardie Collins

This is a culmination of a bunch of stuff I’ve been thinking about when it comes to how I seem to write songs, some of which ended up in this ridiculously long blog post about rhythm and things. A lot of this is stuff I just do, rather than being stuff I think about the whole time.

I’ve gone for 8 main ‘tips’. There will be, of course, plenty of other tips that plenty of other people might have. And some of my tips may not make sense or work for you, but this is just some stuff that’s worked for me so far. I’d love to hear how you go about writing songs (or fiction or poems or anything else for that matter) so that I can steal your process from you. You could let me know in a comment on this post or on the video itself or, if you were so inclined, a good, old-fashioned video response.

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Day 120 – My Birthday Song

Posted on 1 May, 2012 by Ardie Collins

A year ago today I posted this song for the 365 project I seemed to be doing. I’m hoping that my past-self was feeling particularly facetious that day, otherwise he’s a bit of an idiot. Then again, these may not be mutually exclusive.

I don’t really know why I wanted to post this again. Two years ago I may have just acknowledged a little landmark like this with a quiet nod to no one, but now I seem to shout things about myself at people on the internet.

On my 23rd birthday this was the song I managed to churn out to then become associated with the day, and now I can look back and be all pleased because at that stage I had no idea that I’d actually finish the thing.

Not to be too unnecessarily contemplative, but some of the things I associate with being 23 were pretty good. These were mainly getting my debut novel published and finishing the 365 project. Which has made me think about what I want to do with this whole being 24 business, and I hope there’ll be things I manage to make that I’ll be just as pleased with. I reckon I’ve peaked, though. Yeah. Probably peaked.

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That EP I did is now available on iTunes and Spotify

8 Songwriting Tips (That Seem To Work For Me, At Least)

Day 120 – My Birthday Song

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