John Dougherty, Songwriter

I usually do a song or two as part of my sessions on school visits. I’m not doing much else with them at the moment but I’d like to. I’m hoping to do another album some time in the next couple of years - maybe one aimed at school audiences this time. I’ll let you know.

This is one of my best musical memories - me jamming with the fantastic Eddi Reader, one of my musical heroes.

So it’s not professional quality - but I’m pleased with it.

Then I put the video together on my laptop.

I recorded the song in my kitchen in a single take.

Here’s a video I made for An Awfully Big Blog Adventure, the co-operative blog I contribute to. We held what we think was the world’s first online children’s literature festival, and I wrote this song for it.

The 4th track on the CD was written and performed by Ruth Royall. She’s fab. I expect she’ll be famous quite soon.

•This is the ‘Songwriter’ page of the official website of John Dougherty, children’s author, poet and songwriter, solo performer and former frontman of Calvin and, before that, The Whole World. It contains links to tracks from the album Songs From the Water’s Edge Part One and the EPs Fashion is the Enemy of Beauty and John Dougherty and the Midwives of Melody.