Someone To Share My Songs With

Jens called this morning. He said he's going to Europe on Sunday for a tour. He said that he'd be back for a couple of weeks in March before heading off to the States. He suggested we hook up in March to flesh out some ideas for our new musical project. He's quite excited about the prospect, thinks that we'll be able to create something unique and interesting together. I'm excited as well, I think I'll be good for Jens. I think it will help him achieve some wider exposure in the market-place and improve his credibility on the street.

I come up with musical ideas all the time. I'll be on a tram or walking down the street and a melody or a lyrical idea will just come to me. Once I have an idea I have to work out which of my musical projects it would be best developed for. I think to myself: "will this idea best suit the experimental electronics and off-kilter rhythms of Faggot, or would it be more appropriate for the harmony drenched summertime pop of The Emergency Kisses?" Sometimes it is difficult to decide. Both my bands are like my children. I don't want to neglect either one of them. But sometimes it's hard to treat them equally. And now that I have a third musical project to think about the process becomes a little more complex. I have a third child now. I think I might have to display a bit more discipline towards each of them.

Today I've been working on a song that is completely different to anything I've ever done before. It's something that I think could work well in a musical partnership with Jens. It's a rap song in the Afro-American style. Well, it's a track actually. Those guys call them tracks. The track is called Ho-stess. It's a very personal account of my first sexual relationship and the unfortunate way it ended. It's just in the embryonic stage at the moment, but I've got a couple of rhymes laid down already:

She was a sexy older lady,
and I don't mean just maybe,
I said "yo, yo' looking fine"
She said "let's have sex all the time!"

But there was something wrong,
she didn't just only want my dong
She was sleeping with a pilot
and she didn't try to hide it!

I haven't written a specific part for Jens, but as it's an old school style rap track, I envisage that he will say the last word of each line at the same time I say it. Collaborating is something I'm really enthusiastic about. Bouncing ideas off one another, getting the creative juices flowing. By the time Jens returns from Europe I should have the whole track written and he'll be able to record his parts. I think this is great! I think this could really be something special. I think this is destined to be a long and fruitful musical relationship.