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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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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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Doing The Ska: The Lyrics

15 January 2010 Lyrics

Doing The Ska by Joachim Uerschels

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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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My Love Is Real: The Lyrics

11 January 2010 Lyrics

My Love Is Real by Joachim Uerschels
I admit he’s a better poet than I am
His words are floating through the sky and
His rhymes elaborate, his rhythms tight
Designed to make you sigh
He’s nominated for the Booker Prize
By the same people who often write
My poetic licence should expire
Unless I revoke my style
My poetic licence should expire
But this [...]

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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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Back In The Clubs: The Lyrics

3 December 2009 Lyrics

Back In The Clubs by Joachim Uerschels
verse 1
20 backup dancers, catwalk to midfield
Wireless in-ear systems part of every deal
Golden backstage passes for the 100 media partners
On the guestlist everyday, some things that we don’t miss, hooray
‘Cause we are
chorus
Back in the clubs x 4
verse 2
When you’re being catered Chili Con Carne
From the leftovers of the Salvation [...]

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Ballerina Valerie: The Lyrics

1 December 2009 Lyrics

You can find the details about the Making of “Ballerina Valerie” in another post. This one contains purely the lyrics of the song.
Ballerina Valerie by Joachim Uerschels
verse 1
You wanted to be someone
You wanted to make it big
Too many dreams to all come true
At least now you got a hit x2
Soon was plain to both of [...]

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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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