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(soft acoustic music)
(singing)
(birds crying)
- [Bill] The studio's called Yawn
because West Kirby's so boring you know,
you can smell the sea air
and there's a chip shop on every corner.
It's a really good place
if you just wanna live a quiet life
and make music without having people scream at you
and tell you you're brilliant all the time, you know.
My name's Bill Ryder-Jones.
I'm a musician, producer, and song-writer.
- I feel like such a little fish
in, kind of, this industry
that I'm all of a sudden emersed in.
I'd had a kind of writing session experience before
that was a bit kind of rigid.
When I met Bill I was expecting it to be like quite formal,
but it was the opposite.
We just got on really well.
He was really relaxed.
I am Bessie Turner.
I sing and write songs and I'm from Suffolk.
- Yes I've got something for that,
would you like to hear it?
- [Bessie] Yes, I would love to hear it.
(acoustic guitar playing)
(singing)
- That's great.
If you just,
shorten how long it goes on for perhaps.
(singing)
- That makes sense, - Okay.
- [Bill] as like the first phrase.
- Okay.
- [Bill] So can I see what you've got written down.
- No.
- [Bill] Alright.
(laughs)
- Yeah we had a little,
brief little phone call and I was like
oh yeah, yeah this gonna be alright,
like, she's like me.
- [Bessie] There was kind of like, an immediate friendship.
Completely like dissed each other immediately.
And I think that's so important, to feel kind of
that closeness with somebody.
- [Bill] We both are chronic over-sharers
and after that it was like
alright cool yeah, like I've known you for
quite a long time already.
(singing)
- And then we just
lose the "doo doo" - Okay.
- the second time around,
'cause that's become a bit of a hook isn't it.
Great we're off, we're flying.
- [Bessie] Okay.
- Feelin' okay about it?
- [Bessie] Yeah.
- With The Coral,
I wasn't the song writer in that crew.
As a guitarist I had a bit more influence
on some of the sound then I knew at the time.
There hell of a lot you can do
just by helping someone else's song speak.
- [Bessie] I'm quite a sucker for
kind of like romanticism,
meaningful, dark, like woe is me lyrics.
I think lyrics are really important to me.
(singing)
- We'll start it there.
(guitar strumming)
(singing)
Do you like it?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- The way we write is so different.
She writes melodies without music,
you know in her phone or whatever.
She would just, hear music, hear melodies and sing them.
That's just so foreign to me
how you could even do that you know,
I might've done it once in my life as a fluke.
- Or let's just rhyme that uptight, upright, upright.
- Okay.
Finish it on change though I like, always liked that word.
♪ Am I too close this year ♪
Is it three times?
- [Bill] Yeah three.
♪ I've got the goods right here ♪
♪ And I'm your favorite fear ♪
- Great.
- [Bessie] It just happens really quickly.
I usually come up with the vocal melody first
and then I'll sit there for ages
trying to work out which note like
"ah, ah, ah, ah, ah."
I've sang a few times without a guitar
and I find it like "oh my god."
It's kind of lovely,
it's kind of like my prop.
It's a bit like if you're having a dance or something.
- You know I'm still like,
guitar boy.
When someone can play guitar I go "oh!"
The sheer joy of just holding it
and listen to The Stooges or like
The Velvets or stuff, it reminds you before you've
over thought the whole thing,
when it was just the communication of kind of
energy and loss.
I find it's the most versatile of instruments,
that I can certainly play.
It takes two moments to create these
incredibly desperate worlds.
♪ And I still remember the pain ♪
♪ Taste baby remain and unchanged ♪
- I'm quite like "Oh that could be better,
"that could be better."
But when something comes together
really quickly that's when I find
it's best and you're like "Wow."
Like there's a beginning, there's a verse,
there's like a really cool like little hook or
the chorus is like really catchy and sick
and then all of a sudden it's the end
and you're just kind of like "Yeah, nailed it."
- Alright mate are we, can we record?
It's all ready?
(instrumental music)
♪ Sometimes I don't remember the pain ♪
♪ Taste baby remaining unchanged ♪
♪ Too many tears here ♪
- I think she's a brilliant lyricist.
I think her take on the world is something that I have spent
quite a lot of time trying to do myself.
You see it up and down the country at open mics,
people singing about just heart break or whatever.
That isn't enough.
That story has been told.
The only difference is the slant you put on it.
If you can't find a new way of doin' it then you're probably
best off bein' an estate agent I think.
Or something like that.
♪ I've got the goods right here ♪
♪ And I'm you're favorite fear ♪
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