Earlier in the year I decided to enter my song One Warm June Night into the MTV Brand New For 2012 competition, which is to find the next big breakthrough act in 2012. The prize is perform live for MTV in London, to be featured in special on-air MTV spotlights as well as having my music… Continue Reading
I really like a good closing track on an album. I like it when a band uses to the opportunity to use the last track, to end the album with a particular mood. Sometimes this is used to round off the contents of the album in epic style with a real show stopper song with… Continue Reading
Wow, nice! Hang on, what is mastering? This is the response that a lot of people say to me why I tell them that I am having my music mastered at the world famous Abbey Road Studios. Most people have heard of Abbey Road Studios. Mentioning immediately evokes images of countless bands and artists that have recorded their… Continue Reading
In Time is a song that I wrote almost by accident. Sometimes you can play a chord, a sound or a melody and song just sort of tumbles out. In the case of In Time, I was playing around with a a favourite instruments plugin of mine called Omnisphere by Spectrasonics. Recently Spectrasonics have released a… Continue Reading
Love it or hate it, since it’s introduction in 1997 Auto-Tune has gone on to become a a huge part of modern music making. There is a great deal of debate about the various merits and drawbacks of being able to correct the pitch of a vocal recording and whether this in someway reduces the… Continue Reading
I’ve Found You started off as a very simple and short song that I first wrote many years ago when I had a little 4-Track studio set up in my bedroom. Over the years as I have recorded different versions, it has grown into a much longer song with four distinct sections. Why not have… Continue Reading
To celebrate my Mum’s birthday I decided that it would be a nice idea for Wanda and I to record a version of the Happy Birthday song for her. My brother was putting together a compilation of video messages and clips sent by a variety of family and friends from all around the world to… Continue Reading
I wrote in a previous blog how much I like making music using all manner of things. In fact if I can get something to make an interesting sound then the chances are I’m going to end up sticking it in a recording somewhere. I also mentioned that I am very difficult person to buy… Continue Reading
I think that 2010 has been a very interesting year for music, films and television. I thought it would be nice to share with you all which of those have been the best for me in 2010. Music Obviously 2010 was a very special year for me because I release my first two singles, Make… Continue Reading
We recently had a holiday at the lovely and beautiful Portmeirion Hotel in Wales. It is one of my favourite places in the world, quite unlike anywhere else that I have visited. You may have seen it before because of the splendid television series The Prisoner that was filmed there in the 1960s. We have… Continue Reading
Stephen Caulfield 