MUSIC
DANNY MORTIMER
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have been writing my own music for quite a while now. My latest composition started as a suggestion – more of a joke really - from my dad. Why not write a Christmas song? We both thought it was a hilarious idea, as the type of music that I usually write wouldn’t ‘fit’ into your stereotypical Christmas song. Having suggested it once, he tried again the following year and, like a dog with a bone, wouldn’t give up. Then it wasn’t until last year that I actually sat down and began to seriously think about it, but I couldn’t get my head around how a “Danny Mortimer Christmas Song” would go, let alone what it would sound like.
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The idea got shelved and then BOOM, 2020 happened! We were actually beginning work on recording drums for my third solo album the week before lock down happened. With loads of free time on my hands over the next few
months, I began writing more and recording small demos in my little home studio. By the time August rolled around, one of my favourite bands (The Goo Goo Dolls) announced that they were going to be releasing a Christmas album. It was kind of a lightning bolt moment, “if they can release a full Christmas album, surely I could figure out how to write my own song?!”. It also kind of felt like this year could mean “it’s OK to try something new or out of the ordinary” as this year has been anything, but ordinary. I began working on the music for my own Festive song. However it was not plain sailing.
