Carl Green

My eighties band CARL GREEN AND THE SCENE signed with RCA Records (UK) in 1981 after winning a national "Battle Of The Bands" competition at Hammersmith Odeon, London. We released 2 singles and an album for the label before going our separate ways. This song is from the album- may bring back some memories for a few of you!

Our brand new video- hope you like!

My band HEAD OF LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT recorded live in North Tyneside UK, three days before the initial lockdown. No idea when we'll be back on stage. Safe- hope you all are...

Interesting. Like I say, it's not my usual way of working but I love a challenge. Might find a nice coffee shop to get the wheels turning! Cheers.

I've always found it easier to write words to a melody rather than the other way round. Once the tune is in my head, the mood of the song becomes apparent and ideas start to flow. But I have a note-book full of lyrics or half lyrics in search of a melody so it's time I mixed things up a little!

The vast majority of my songs are music written first then the lyric afterwards- I'd say about 95% of the time. I'm going to try it the other way round a few times this year to see how writing the lyric in advance influences how the music and melody goes. It's quite out my comfort zone but I'm intrigued to hear the results. Will it make a discernible difference I wonder. So how about you guys? What comes first- the music or the lyric?

Pretty good thanks John. We lost our original bass player in 2018 but we now have an amazing young woman called Stephania on bass duties and additional harmonies so we're back on track! We released our EP "Periphery" November 2019 and the reaction has been positive so that's nice. Still a pain in the arse trying to get gigs though. Have tried a couple of venues north of the border but no bites as yet. We'd love to play Edinburgh especially. Anyway, nice to be back on Songstuff. Will try and be a little more active on here in 2020.

It's amazing what a bit of encouragement can do- we all need it from time to time. All the best to you too!

Oh dear- haven't been on here for over two years! Humble apologies- it's such a good site, but been a tad busy with life and stuff. Anyway, back making music with my band HEAD OF LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT. Here's a song from our recently released EP called Safe. Feedback, positive and negative, welcome. Nice to be back