Just Launching Beyond The Clouds - The Musical
Please check it out via:
http://www.beyondtheclouds.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-The-Clouds-The-Musical/244807782253662
http://www.myspace.com/beyondtheclouds-musical
A Beyond The Clouds Blogger Page will follow very soon!
All the best,
Chris
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Showing posts with label Chris Breen. Show all posts
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Oh, for more time!!
Many New Songs On The Way
Just a very quick update on some forthcoming projects:
Attention (Dance/Pop) and Give My Heart A Chance (Pop) (Both co-written with Tristan), a Latino song (Let The Night Burn) and an R&B track called Do Love. Top-line melodies and lyrics for the last three of these were by yours truly.
I will get round to uploading snippets onto the LYRICO website at some point soon! When I get time!
All the best for now,
Chris
Many New Songs On The Way
Just a very quick update on some forthcoming projects:
- Tristan Spencer - I'm busy co-writing Tristan's debut album. We're 7 songs in, so far, and have another 6 tracks we've penned for other artists to cover (4 female, 2 male). Check four of our songs here: http://www.myspace.com/tristspencer
- Rolf and Keeley - I've written 6 Country Rock songs with Rolf Schnyder in Switzerland http://www.myspace.com/swisssongwriterduo. Rolf won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Country Section this year, so I'm hugely honoured to be working with him. We've got the very talented Keeley Camilleri recording these six tracks and we'll be promoting those as soon as they are produced up and mixed.
- Isham - in a funk/R&B/Urban direction, I'm writing more tracks for Isham. Watch this space: Isham
Attention (Dance/Pop) and Give My Heart A Chance (Pop) (Both co-written with Tristan), a Latino song (Let The Night Burn) and an R&B track called Do Love. Top-line melodies and lyrics for the last three of these were by yours truly.
I will get round to uploading snippets onto the LYRICO website at some point soon! When I get time!
All the best for now,
Chris
Sunday, May 27, 2007
So Good They Named It Twice?
Wow, what a crazy five or six weeks I've had! I'm 'cream crackered'! Paris, Boston, New York, Berlin and Birmingham! (Yeah, maybe the last one isn't quite as exciting... no disrespect to Brum - my Dad's from there - but it really didn't hold the same magic as 9 days in the US!)
Boston & Blue Skies
Travel can be such a bl**dy fiasco, can't it? I set off from the hotel in Boston at 1:00 PM on Thursday 11th and got to the airport with around 3 hours to spare... just in case. Good thing, 'cause I found my flight to Newark, New Jersey, had been cancelled but luckily (or so I thought at the time) they checked me in on an earlier flight. Then notices started to appear on the displays that this one was now delayed. After finally boarding, the plane just sat on the tarmac for another 90 minutes waiting to get a take off slot. When we finally got airborne I realised it was going to be touch and go about making my connection to Birmingham (and no... that wasn't my visit to Birmingham, I was there again a week or so later!) In fact, as we landed in Newark and taxied in I could see a Continental 757 pulling away from a gate... I hoped it wasn't mine, but despite the mad dash (treating slow moving people in the way with the sort of respect a bowling ball shows 10 standing pins), I found the gate closed and the gentleman behind it informing me of what I was now painfully aware of... I'd missed my flight back! (And I've never done that before in all my years of travelling!)
The Continental 'help' desk (inverted commas for a good reason!) gave me a couple of choices: going to France a few hours later then flying out from Paris the following afternoon to Birmingham; or staying over locally and repeating the attempt to jet off to Birmingham direct, just 24 hours later from the flight I'd missed. I chose the latter and was given a voucher for a hotel at the airport. Great I said, but what about my bags? (For a change of clothes etc.) "Oh, if you want your luggage, I'll key into the computer to get them sent through. Just go down two floors to baggage reclaim and they'll guide you..." I duly did this and sat in front of Carousel 9 waiting for my case. Nothing for 45 minutes, so I went back to baggage reclaim where I was told it can take an hour. Half an hour later I went back to the desk, and was told it was going to be two... "Just wait another hour". Nothing. After three hours the local yanks got a taste of some pure Anglo Saxon vocabulary! I was then told by the new person on the desk that as I had requested the bag after 7PM it would NOT be dispatched and was now in a storage hold awaiting tomorrow's flight. More Anglo Saxon vocabulary. (Sorry, but I'd sat there like a lemon for three hours having been completely misinformed by the so called 'help team'. I was also very tired and hungry!) So, without luggage, I then took the shuttle bus to my hotel only to find that by now all the rooms were taken! ("we didn't think you were coming, Sir.") Argghhh! The receptionist made a call and I was told another bus would take me (and the collection of other unfortunates) to an alternative hotel that DID have rooms. After trying to board two busses that said Holiday Inn (ah, but not to MY Holiday Inn), eventually a minibus arrived and drove us all to some Newark suburb called Carteret... A Holiday Inn Motel right next to the 14 lane New Jersey Turnpike with hot and cold running trucks rumbling through the night completely free of charge!
Anyway, all's well that ends well, because after some business on Friday morning, I found myself with four or five hours to kill before my flight check-in. Looking at a map, I realised that the turnpike headed all the way into New York, so a few minutes later I got a bus and an hour later was in Manhattan charging up 8th Avenue towards Central Park, then heading down 5th counting the 'Wests' down from 57 to 34 for a quick jaunt up to the top of the Empire State Building! Wow! Absolutely fantastic it was too! (Though somewhat of a 'brown trouser job' for people like me who suffer from vertigo!!)
Manhattan from the Empire State Building as the clouds roll in
I no doubt ended up shedding pounds (of sweat, I hasten to add!!) in my three hour mad-dash, just getting back in time on the bus to flag the courtesy airport shuttle down... I know I can cut things fine, but it was leaving 10 minutes early, damn it! So, I've 'accidentally' got to see a little of New York as well as loads of Boston! Boston, by the way, was superb... a fantastic place! I had two free days at the start (as I was working Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday) so I walked the red-brick 2.5 mile Freedom Trail, went on the USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" (the oldest still commissioned warship in the world, launched in the 1797), drank beers in Cheers (yes, it's a real pub!), and The Bell In Hand (the oldest pub in America) and on Saturday took a bus out to Cape Cod...
I'll write about Berlin when I've got my Breath back...
All the best,
Chris
Boston & Blue SkiesTravel can be such a bl**dy fiasco, can't it? I set off from the hotel in Boston at 1:00 PM on Thursday 11th and got to the airport with around 3 hours to spare... just in case. Good thing, 'cause I found my flight to Newark, New Jersey, had been cancelled but luckily (or so I thought at the time) they checked me in on an earlier flight. Then notices started to appear on the displays that this one was now delayed. After finally boarding, the plane just sat on the tarmac for another 90 minutes waiting to get a take off slot. When we finally got airborne I realised it was going to be touch and go about making my connection to Birmingham (and no... that wasn't my visit to Birmingham, I was there again a week or so later!) In fact, as we landed in Newark and taxied in I could see a Continental 757 pulling away from a gate... I hoped it wasn't mine, but despite the mad dash (treating slow moving people in the way with the sort of respect a bowling ball shows 10 standing pins), I found the gate closed and the gentleman behind it informing me of what I was now painfully aware of... I'd missed my flight back! (And I've never done that before in all my years of travelling!)
The Continental 'help' desk (inverted commas for a good reason!) gave me a couple of choices: going to France a few hours later then flying out from Paris the following afternoon to Birmingham; or staying over locally and repeating the attempt to jet off to Birmingham direct, just 24 hours later from the flight I'd missed. I chose the latter and was given a voucher for a hotel at the airport. Great I said, but what about my bags? (For a change of clothes etc.) "Oh, if you want your luggage, I'll key into the computer to get them sent through. Just go down two floors to baggage reclaim and they'll guide you..." I duly did this and sat in front of Carousel 9 waiting for my case. Nothing for 45 minutes, so I went back to baggage reclaim where I was told it can take an hour. Half an hour later I went back to the desk, and was told it was going to be two... "Just wait another hour". Nothing. After three hours the local yanks got a taste of some pure Anglo Saxon vocabulary! I was then told by the new person on the desk that as I had requested the bag after 7PM it would NOT be dispatched and was now in a storage hold awaiting tomorrow's flight. More Anglo Saxon vocabulary. (Sorry, but I'd sat there like a lemon for three hours having been completely misinformed by the so called 'help team'. I was also very tired and hungry!) So, without luggage, I then took the shuttle bus to my hotel only to find that by now all the rooms were taken! ("we didn't think you were coming, Sir.") Argghhh! The receptionist made a call and I was told another bus would take me (and the collection of other unfortunates) to an alternative hotel that DID have rooms. After trying to board two busses that said Holiday Inn (ah, but not to MY Holiday Inn), eventually a minibus arrived and drove us all to some Newark suburb called Carteret... A Holiday Inn Motel right next to the 14 lane New Jersey Turnpike with hot and cold running trucks rumbling through the night completely free of charge!
Anyway, all's well that ends well, because after some business on Friday morning, I found myself with four or five hours to kill before my flight check-in. Looking at a map, I realised that the turnpike headed all the way into New York, so a few minutes later I got a bus and an hour later was in Manhattan charging up 8th Avenue towards Central Park, then heading down 5th counting the 'Wests' down from 57 to 34 for a quick jaunt up to the top of the Empire State Building! Wow! Absolutely fantastic it was too! (Though somewhat of a 'brown trouser job' for people like me who suffer from vertigo!!)
Manhattan from the Empire State Building as the clouds roll inI no doubt ended up shedding pounds (of sweat, I hasten to add!!) in my three hour mad-dash, just getting back in time on the bus to flag the courtesy airport shuttle down... I know I can cut things fine, but it was leaving 10 minutes early, damn it! So, I've 'accidentally' got to see a little of New York as well as loads of Boston! Boston, by the way, was superb... a fantastic place! I had two free days at the start (as I was working Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday) so I walked the red-brick 2.5 mile Freedom Trail, went on the USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" (the oldest still commissioned warship in the world, launched in the 1797), drank beers in Cheers (yes, it's a real pub!), and The Bell In Hand (the oldest pub in America) and on Saturday took a bus out to Cape Cod...
I'll write about Berlin when I've got my Breath back...
All the best,
Chris
Saturday, March 31, 2007
7 New Songs on MySpace
Just a quick note because I realise I haven't posted anything this month so far... and I'm running out of time to do it. So in typical 'lastminute.com' fashion (yes, I have been nicknamed that at times!) here is a quick update...
I've been hugely busy with the following writing projects... please check them out:
I'm co-writing an album for Tristan Spencer and the first four songs are now on his MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/tristspencer Please check them out. We've recently just received a publishing offer from a major Nashville Publisher for Too Late. Fantastic news!
Niamh's CD demo co-written with Torgeir Bjordal of Fuelled Productions and recorded at YFM Bergen is now launched and there is already interest from a major label. Again, great news!
http://www.myspace.com/niamhegan
I've been working on a new R&B track and a Latino song with Andy McNeil. Both are being produced up now. Watch this space for further news on those.
Tristan and I are working on dance/pop songs for a girl band (name to be disclosed if we get the contract!).
Promise I'll write more soon... And make it funny next time! Do check out my main two sites and link in if you can.
http://www.lyrico.co.uk/ & http://www.myspace.com/chrisbreenlyricist
All the best,
Chris
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
A New Year - A New Website...
All the best,
Chris
www.songwriter-lyricist.com
www.lyrico.co.uk
www.myspace.com/chrisbreenlyricist
www.sundancesongs.com
With typical 'New Year Resolve', I've bundled together all my sketched-out ideas and pages for a new site (it's just one of many, so think of it as the entrance hall to a cyber-space mansion of the future... well, you've got to think big, haven't you? An entrance hall to a clapped-out caravan doesn't have the same ring, does it?). Anyway, the hosting was bought at around Noon on New Year's Day from good old 'a small orange' in Atlanta, Georgia and the site went live at about 9.00 PM UK time on the 2nd January.
So why have I waited until now to announce it to the world? Well, that's a long story... Are you sitting comfortably? (Visions of Ronnie Corbett and a somewhat rambling tale... "Anyway, as I was saying"... Actually, I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say..." Stop it, Chris!)
Anyway, I decided to buy another 7 domains before launching this site (see, it's an eight roomed caravan already!) and that's when the problems started. Honestly, it was easier buying my house... though, mercifully, the domains were somewhat cheaper! Anyway, it's all sorted, so wipe your feet on the welcome mat and take a look round my new cyberspace caravan...
So why have I waited until now to announce it to the world? Well, that's a long story... Are you sitting comfortably? (Visions of Ronnie Corbett and a somewhat rambling tale... "Anyway, as I was saying"... Actually, I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say..." Stop it, Chris!)
Anyway, I decided to buy another 7 domains before launching this site (see, it's an eight roomed caravan already!) and that's when the problems started. Honestly, it was easier buying my house... though, mercifully, the domains were somewhat cheaper! Anyway, it's all sorted, so wipe your feet on the welcome mat and take a look round my new cyberspace caravan...
All the best,
Chris
www.songwriter-lyricist.com
www.lyrico.co.uk
www.myspace.com/chrisbreenlyricist
www.sundancesongs.com
Saturday, September 09, 2006
All’s Changed! “Nothing’s Changed” has Changed Hands!
Chris Breen signs a Publishing Deal with Leopard Music
On August 23 I signed a single song assignment with Leopard Music for Nothing's Changed and then posted the five copies of the contract off to my Norwegian co-writers, Torgeir Bjordal and Sturle Strauss Lisaeth, for their signatures. Leopard Music Publishing really like the tracks I’ve done with Torgeir and it is great news indeed that we’ve signed the first of our co-writes over to them for global marketing and publishing rights… Hopefully the first of many!
One other track, All Because Of You is earmarked for the opener and single on a forthcoming album… But if that doesn’t happen (Hey! You know what this business is like!), we are happy knowing that Leopard want to sign that song too.
STOP PRESS! NEW SONG "I DON'T KNOW" AVAILABLE FOR RECORDING
Just arrived in from Torgeir's studios in Bergen, Norway is our latest co-write, I Don't Know, again featuring the fantastic vocals of young Irish singer Niahm. Be one of the very first to hear this song by clicking HERE.
Regular visitors to this Blog and to my Lyrico Website will know that Torgeir is one of the main composers and producers I work with and if you listen to the co-writes on the site and All I Want From Love (co-written with Paul Jeffery and produced by Torgeir), you’ll get an idea of the pop-rock sound that I absolutely love working on. My favourite is the powerful and so, so catchy Independence Day. If you’re a professional songwriter and you also write in this style and need a lyricist on a project, or a co-writing team, you know where Torgeir and I can be found! Please just email me on chrisbreen@lyrico.co.uk
In addition to hopefully doing many more co-writes with both Torgeir and Paul over the next year, I’m working on a new pop-rock project with Mark Francis, along with two ongoing dance music ones (Paul again with producer Sharon Sullivan) and the second with writer/producer Richard Cory. Please watch this space to hear a range of new commercial/pop songs (hopefully coming soon!) or get in touch with me if you need material writing in that style for your project!
In a completely different vein, I’ve just completed the third co-write with a new writing partner, Glenn Tollett. All three songs are in a Classical/Popular-Opera vein and two are currently being recorded-up by a new talent in the Opera field, the award-winning live performer, Carl Taylor. We’re hoping these recordings will be available on the Lyrico website soon, but, in the meantime listen to the Scott Davies versions of the first song, Love To Love Again (in English) or Italian (Fammi Innamorar'!!).
Well, apologies for the lack of ‘funnies’ on this posting, but I thought I best at least do one that’s about the music and some real news (for a change!). I promise I'll get utterly daft again for the next posting!
Look after yourselves.
Chris
One other track, All Because Of You is earmarked for the opener and single on a forthcoming album… But if that doesn’t happen (Hey! You know what this business is like!), we are happy knowing that Leopard want to sign that song too.
STOP PRESS! NEW SONG "I DON'T KNOW" AVAILABLE FOR RECORDING
Just arrived in from Torgeir's studios in Bergen, Norway is our latest co-write, I Don't Know, again featuring the fantastic vocals of young Irish singer Niahm. Be one of the very first to hear this song by clicking HERE.
Regular visitors to this Blog and to my Lyrico Website will know that Torgeir is one of the main composers and producers I work with and if you listen to the co-writes on the site and All I Want From Love (co-written with Paul Jeffery and produced by Torgeir), you’ll get an idea of the pop-rock sound that I absolutely love working on. My favourite is the powerful and so, so catchy Independence Day. If you’re a professional songwriter and you also write in this style and need a lyricist on a project, or a co-writing team, you know where Torgeir and I can be found! Please just email me on chrisbreen@lyrico.co.uk
In addition to hopefully doing many more co-writes with both Torgeir and Paul over the next year, I’m working on a new pop-rock project with Mark Francis, along with two ongoing dance music ones (Paul again with producer Sharon Sullivan) and the second with writer/producer Richard Cory. Please watch this space to hear a range of new commercial/pop songs (hopefully coming soon!) or get in touch with me if you need material writing in that style for your project!
In a completely different vein, I’ve just completed the third co-write with a new writing partner, Glenn Tollett. All three songs are in a Classical/Popular-Opera vein and two are currently being recorded-up by a new talent in the Opera field, the award-winning live performer, Carl Taylor. We’re hoping these recordings will be available on the Lyrico website soon, but, in the meantime listen to the Scott Davies versions of the first song, Love To Love Again (in English) or Italian (Fammi Innamorar'!!).
Well, apologies for the lack of ‘funnies’ on this posting, but I thought I best at least do one that’s about the music and some real news (for a change!). I promise I'll get utterly daft again for the next posting!
Look after yourselves.
Chris
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