**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 07
Written 12th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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Not really sure where this came from - but I find it REALLY comforting. That might not be how others hear it, but that's ok, songs get finished…
Andy,
I really enjoyed this song... I like the progression alot and that does indeed comfort me.
The voice is nice as well and fits perfect.... I really like the way you make the guitar chug along in a nice rhythm... makes me think of a lovely train ride on a fall afternoon through the country.... very laid back but still full of life and energy!
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 14
Written 21st-22nd Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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The thing of it is, er... whatever
I guess.
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**Now that we’re home - A A J Russe**
Now that we’re home
I’ll admit to you…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 10
Written 15th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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It wasn't really like this, it was very romantic.
This was a really quick write, though.
We were getting up, she was doing her hair…
Sounds like true love to me...every bittersweet second of it! And it's so lovely to hear you again! More please. And not just every Valentines.
(I can't log in. But Sister Savage says hi!)
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 02
Written 3-5th Feb
Demo recorded 8th Feb
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I had most of it on the 3rd, but wanted a middle 8 (bridge).
Struggled a bit with energy and how busy I am at work...
I managed to write…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 14
Written 21st-22nd Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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The thing of it is, er... whatever
I guess.
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**Now that we’re home - A A J Russe**
Now that we’re home
I’ll admit to you…
(Remastered 22/10/2021)
I've been missing in action for ages - apologies to all, I'm about to start listening again too.
For ages, I'd been considering a move away from my trusty Boss BR1600 on which I've recorded and mixed nearly everything…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 01
Written Saturday-Sunday 1st-2nd February 2025
Written 1st-2nd Feb
Demo recorded 2nd Feb
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I wasn't gonna do this FAWM thing this year, but they sent me an email...
And then I wrote…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 14
Written 21st-22nd Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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The thing of it is, er... whatever
I guess.
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**Now that we’re home - A A J Russe**
Now that we’re home
I’ll admit to you…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 12
Written 19th Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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I knew a girl called Julia, over 40 years ago, I still write songs about her.
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**I Can Hear Your Voice - A A J Russe**
I didn…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 13
Written 20th Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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I had the song half done - well, I had the title and chorus - and I was watching a FABULOUS film the other night called Enchanted April, with…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 14
Written 21st-22nd Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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The thing of it is, er... whatever
I guess.
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**Now that we’re home - A A J Russe**
Now that we’re home
I’ll admit to you…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 10
Written 15th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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It wasn't really like this, it was very romantic.
This was a really quick write, though.
We were getting up, she was doing her hair…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 09
Written 14th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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**Lost - A A J Russe**
We watch
As the memories
Surely have to fade
The past
That we used to know
Is written in the shade
Without…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 08
Written 13th - 14th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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**The Best Of You - A A J Russe**
You’ve got a way with words
People seem to understand
People seem to want to know
Both what…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 07
Written 12th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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Not really sure where this came from - but I find it REALLY comforting. That might not be how others hear it, but that's ok, songs get finished…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 06
Written 9-11th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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You know how Jane-ites (Jane Austen fans) ask "What would Jane do?" for life guidance...?
Well, when it came to write this, I asked myself…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 10
Written 15th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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It wasn't really like this, it was very romantic.
This was a really quick write, though.
We were getting up, she was doing her hair…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 10
Written 15th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
****
It wasn't really like this, it was very romantic.
This was a really quick write, though.
We were getting up, she was doing her hair…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 05
Written 8th Feb
Demo recorded 8th Feb
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I was writing this from about 1am this morning before I went to bed, then on and off in between takes on the demos of the previous three today…
**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 04
Written 6th Feb
Demo recorded 8th Feb
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This was quite a quick write.
I was watching a film.
Someone said "No matter what the odds".
So I thought: what about a song called No…
This was the original version I recorded before I completely overhauled it (see version on "It takes a village album ). I wasnt crazy about it but hell I put time into it and completed it so why not post it up.
Wedding march written a long time ago for a friend and a failed marriage. The song symbolizes hope and trust in the face of fear. The composition is all that's left of that now, but, it still means something. Not our usual, so please don't…
Oh, it's fall again,
Autumn leaves are sweeping in,
Came and went like the tides.
Oh, chills on the wind again,
Eating through our clothes,
Aching our blood cells.
Oh, where is home again,
With fire in our hearts,
And love on our shoulders…
Reg crawled out of his bunker and wandered down the hill where Jip 1965 found him and dragged him round to FDR,s cave,the beer flowed,the whiskey jug was emptied and we all turned into AC/DC. And then we went down the Rum Runner and rocked the…
Written and recorded in a couple of hours late one night.
I pick up the telephone
and dial the number
I run down the street
I don't mind the thunder
I can get no answer
Can't go back to my slumber
I turn the corner slip and fall
I hit…
Yeah - magnificent song. Love the vox.
Like the vid too :)
...Interesting watching you play, btw - you've got a different right hand, but watching your left hand I could be watching myself in a mirror! Don't often get that feeling watching another guitarist :)
We're truly nowhere now,
and there is no fight for who's king.
Through a tear in two souls crawls
the shapelessness of this dream.
I lay down in the sun to spring leaks,
when in pours my weight in dead fruit,
under which the ground gives way…
Extravagant and clean and practised, oh, so very well,
they pose and fall and knead and climb, unclothed yet practical.
The ceiling sets the scene and I am reminded not to go.
I'm at the mercy of this posthumous woe.
Never seen again…
Comments on Andrew Russe's stuff
Andy, I really enjoyed this song... I like the progression alot and that does indeed comfort me. The voice is nice as well and fits perfect.... I really like the way you make the guitar chug along in a nice rhythm... makes me think of a lovely train ride on a fall afternoon through the country.... very laid back but still full of life and energy!
Mmm, mmm. you may not know, but keep doing it. I love how bare this arrangement is.
Sounds like true love to me...every bittersweet second of it! And it's so lovely to hear you again! More please. And not just every Valentines. (I can't log in. But Sister Savage says hi!)
Excellent track 👍
I seldom know what I’m doing too
Very nice song. Good quality too.
Hi Andrew, nice song! Stay healthy and safe. Keep on going. Paul
great tune andrew , love the lyrics , and vocal ,......cheers tony cee
So lovely and the lyrics are very moving. Beautifully done! I wonder where Julia is now...maybe she can hear your song.
Love it...and great imagery. Now I must see the movie too!
Another beauty! Gorgeous voice as always. (I get some Bowie vibes....and I'm a big fan). You're almost done your FAWM!!! Wow.
Love it …we like to make it special but I can’t remember how……. it’s an excellent album I throughly enjoyed the ride ..
Most of mine from the early years are gone I mean where the hell did I come from who what am I ….who am I evolving into …..oh yeah Reg
Nicely said… there’s always hope
I opened the box but I’m telling you now I can’t get the bloody lid back on ….a dark little beauty
Great lyrics …I just loved that fresh mint feeling
Well done! I enjoyed the line "empty Bottles and a pile of unwashed plates" I'm pretty sure she is your valentine.
Great Valentine's song! You have such a capacity for lyrical story telling - what a talent. Beautiful!! The finishing line is in sight!
another beauty Andrew its coming on to be a great FAWM 2025
I swoon ...I think its a beauty as it is
Comments made by Andrew Russe
Rockin stuff. Love the spacey bit in the middle.
Don't know the original, but this sure sounds good.
Yummy. And she's got a nice name, too :)
Ummm... I love both versions... but I think this is the one I'd take on holiday with me.
Lovely, but sounds very sad... I wonder whether it would have sounded so sad if I hadn't read the story first?
Love the images you paint with your words.
Yep, I'm very fond of LWIII as well. Only saw him once though. One of the funniest nights of my life. Nice version :)
Wooo! Never heard the original. But this vocal is sparkly and huge :)
Ha! Ha! Rockin.
Blissful. We got the same roots :) (Did you spend years trying to sing like him too??)
Yeah - magnificent song. Love the vox. Like the vid too :) ...Interesting watching you play, btw - you've got a different right hand, but watching your left hand I could be watching myself in a mirror! Don't often get that feeling watching another guitarist :)
Wooo... wonderful. Now I'm going have to go and find Geir's version - not sure I've ever heard it.
Don't know the original, but I like this version a fair bit :)
Lovely version. That guitar sounds FABULOUS. Faved from the first notes.
Yep, like the four so far. I'm going to have to check Cockney Rebel out themselves now!
Not that familiar with Cockney Rebel... but I'm liking this a lot.
Similarly majestic - and fabulous.
Woof!! This is majestic.
Haha! Superb... absolutely superb. Groove, song, everything.
And this one too. Love it.