The Smivets
Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
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Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.Band/artist history
No history - I start now.Have you performed in front of an audience?We will not speak of those things here
Your musical influences
Beatles, Genesis, Clash, Abba, Pixies, Foo Fighters, Rancid, Wildhearts, CardiacsWhat equipment do you use?
Marshall combos, Fender Tele, Gordon Smith GS2, Cubase.Anything else?
Dog Poetry
I have always written songs.
When I say songs, what I really mean is the music for songs - chord sequences, tunes, melodies, choruses - all the ingredients for a song except for one, vital part. The damn lyrics. Every song seemed to follow the same path - got the chords, got the hook, even the guitar solo whatever, all I need now is the words ... and there it stopped. I had loads of them - songs that all went "la la la" or "do do do" or, even worse, a set of verses written in the pub at the end of the night that really should have stayed on the beermat. Songs without words, and, let's face it, a song without something to sing isn't actually a song at all. It's an instrumental. Something that requires a drum solo. Or a bass solo.
But then, last year, the clouds suddenly seemed to part and I made a miraculous discovery.
For those of you who struggle to write lyrics I can offer this simple remedy:
GET A DOG.
Not, I hasten to add, that I have found some way to force the poor creature to write the words for me (although, if you have read some of mine, you may be forgiven for thinking this), but there's some magic about taking the thing for a walk that seems to bring words tumbling into your head.
Maybe it's the quiet of the park, maybe it's the rhythm of walking or the absence of other distractions. Maybe it's just that you can sing and mumble to yourself without frightening too many people, but, time and time again, whenever I've been stuck for a line or a rhyme or even the "seed" of a song, I just take the dog out and the words come.
So that's why I've called my next collection Dog Poetry, and I hope you like it.
The dog by the way is called Sid.
Sid thinks it's great.
The Smivets are supposed to sound like my favourite radio station - like every track is by a different band in a different style but all hopefully with a bit of quality to them. I also like the idea of the 16 line novel - if a picture paints a thousand words a song should sing you the whole book.
Does it work? Let me know what you think.Contact
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Hi Steve . I thought I would check some of your back catalogue out as I need to steal some ideas for my new tracks I’ve started writing ! lol .
This is a great track . Would I be right in saying you write lyrics first ? And that’s why you had to change from 4/4 to 6/8 in the chorus? Which worked great by the way ! I tend to write music and chord progressions first and fit lyrics around it that’s why most of my stuff is 4/4 or 6/8 all the way through . I might try writing lyrics first for a change ! Cheers Steveo
Excellent (and highly original) melody throughout, well done! Guitar is ace as are the lyrics (dig the chorus with the brilliant ‘you say’ line (laugh) vs. the ‘I say’ line (bloodbath) lol! Great vocals!
really like the intro and slow build to chorus (2nd verse brilliant lyrics btw!) vocals great and works so well with your music and style!
really cool track with a truckload of attitude which makes for really great rock songs, lyrics and vocals sounding so good, guitar's great!
Nice workings here Seth!
Yeah!!! Sweeet!!
Love your vocals smooth and strong as ever!
Rock on brother!
