Episode 3 - Sacha Skarbek
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2011
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In the third episode of Sodajerker On Songwriting, Simon and Brian talk to Grammy nominated and two-time Ivor Novello winning songwriter Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt, Adele, Duffy, Jason Mraz) about his work as co-writer of a range of recent pop hits including James Blunt's worldwide no. 1 'You're Beautiful'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to episode 3 of the soda jerker on song rating podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Thanks to everyone who's downloaded, listen to and commented upon the first two episodes. |
| 0:20.0 | We really appreciate all your support. |
| 0:22.0 | Those of you who are yet to listen to those episodes, why? |
| 0:26.0 | I enjoyed your timely pause then Brian or Césura. |
| 0:31.0 | We also hope you've enjoyed the Spotify playlists that accompany each episode. |
| 0:37.0 | They're a great companion to the podcast and really help illuminate the songbooks of the artists in question. |
| 0:42.0 | So Simon, in the words of Eddie Murphy and Michael |
| 0:44.8 | Jackson, what's up with you? Oh do remember that what a horrendous song that was? |
| 0:50.3 | God, yeah I don't mind the video. It was like Eddie Murphy and like a cartoon background picking daisies and |
| 0:56.7 | dancing with Michael Jackson dreadful a lot of military garb I recall that was |
| 1:01.1 | MJ so what's up with me? Well we've recently finished writing a song called State of the Art which has just come back from the mastering house. It's gleaming like a new pin as they, and it features a vocal performance from a singer from |
| 1:14.8 | Liverpool called Cayley O'Neill, and Cayley's worked with us once before on a track called |
| 1:19.4 | This is Not a Test. |
| 1:20.9 | So by the time you hear this podcast, you should be able to go to the website and have a |
| 1:24.1 | listen to both of those tracks if you like. |
| 1:25.9 | That's true. |
| 1:26.9 | Also there's been a bit of activity on the blog. |
| 1:28.5 | We recently posted a demo of a track we pitched to an artist a few months ago. It's called |
| 1:33.0 | Lover's Under Cover and we dusted that off last week and thought it sounded rather |
| 1:36.9 | nice so perhaps you will too. Check that out on the blog that's blog |
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