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Diary

My personal 30th Ska Anniversary

10 February 2010 Diary

The “30th Anniversary Tour“ by The Specials has been going on for quite a while now. “But what about my own 30-year-jubilee with Ska?”

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How To Start Writing Songs For An Album: Introducing MMM

26 January 2010 Diary

I’ve been talking about it for quite some time. Now the day has come to really do it.
No one said it was easy
I am going to reveal my first steps writing songs for the next album by the Alpha Boys. Not that anyone has asked, but I want to make sure you are informed about [...]

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Doing The Ska – A Song Worth Recording For The Next Alphaboys Album?

15 January 2010 Diary

As I have mentioned earlier, there are four unreleased songs that could become part of the next album by the Alphaboys feat. Joe Scholes. After presenting Ballerina Valerie, Perfect and My Love Is Real here is the last one on the list: “Doing The Ska”.

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The Song “My Love Is Real”: Is it really Ska’s Antichrist?

12 January 2010 Diary

After publishing the blog entry on the song “Perfect” I visited an online forum called songwriterforums.com and posted the lyrics to “Perfect” there. First of all I was interested to hear praise on the lyrics. Secondly I planned to create awareness for joescholes.com. At the moment I have two feedback mails with “constructive” criticism. One [...]

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Possible Setlist: Alpha Boys in Essen, 23. 01. 2010

8 January 2010 Diary

I would like to take a few minutes to keep you updated on the live efforts of my new band Alpha Boys. For the moment we agreed on doing only a show here and there. Mainly because for lack time, and we also need time for working on new sound & songs.
In this new constellation [...]

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Premiere: The Alpha Boys’ First New Song is called Back In The Clubs

3 December 2009 Diary

It’s about to happen again. Very soon. The six of us climbing another stage. The third show of our new band Alpha Boys feat. Joe Scholes is on this weekend in Hattingen near Bochum.
A Miracle
It seems like a miracle if you consider that we never ever all make it to the same place at the [...]

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The Making Of “Ballerina Valerie”

27 November 2009 Diary

Some songs rule the charts for years after being written in one drunken afternoon I hear, one of the most prominent examples being “In The Summertime” by Mungo Jerry. My songs are different.

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One Song, Many Versions: Perfect (004)

20 November 2009 Diary

This post follows up on the “Ready Steady Go” post in which I namedropped some of the titles of songs I will soon confront the Alpha Boys with. Today I will dedicate a whole post to one of these songs. It’s called “Perfect”. There are a lot of quite different versions of it somewhere on [...]

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Ready Steady Go! 8 titles of songs that will soon be presented to the Alpha Boys (003)

17 November 2009 Diary

Before posting new audio files let me talk about where I am at this point. As I told you, my goal is to deliver songs for a new album, hopefully by the Alpha Boys feat. Joe Scholes.

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