IMRO Songwriting retreat - has anyone ever gone? (1 Viewer)

[fader123]

I just got an email sent to all IMRO members which is an invite to a songwriting retreat with Paul Herman. He is a former member of Faithless who has co-written songs with various English pop people including Dido, Corinne Bailey Rae etc.

The songwriting retreat is in the 4 star Brook Lodge in Wicklow and costs €485. I have gotten plenty of emails from IMRO about songwriting retreats in the past and they usually seem to cost about this much... Just wondering who goes on these things? Has any poster here ever gone? Maybe thumped posters are not the target market but who is?!

 

[ann post]

i dont know, but if i went, the first question i would ask on arrival would be 'mr. herman, did you ever go to a songwriting retreat?' - if the answer was no, i'd ask for a refund.

you can build a recording studio for 485 euro.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

€485? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

 

[fader123]

€485? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

well exactly. who the hell is this for?? I can't picture anyone spending 485 quid on this. So why are IMRO putting it on then? Maybe I'm just bitter cos I got my statement for three pounds or so from them on the same day as the email...

 

[Andy_aurel]

This is how Phil Coulter got started.

 

[tommytrousers]

brooklodge is pretty snazzy to be fair.a weekend there would cost around €160 pp. imro can ask me swiss.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

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[GO]

This is how Phil Coulter got started.

Then the Gardai should be informed..surely its an incitement to commit an offence.

 

[therealjohnny]

mostly rubbish P Coulter brought us Sandie Shaws Puppet on a String, Bay City Rollers and (mawkish by anyone else...stirring by this guy) this

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[Anthony]

Ok I'd never go on a €400 songwriting retreat but I've been seriously thinking about the possibilities of taking the idea and twisting it a bit. Into a songwriting day/weekend type thing. Without too much detail it would involve throwing a bands worth of musicians into a room for the day and seeing what they come up with. This is something that could even be dome through thumped. Something for people who just want to play with and work with random people for the pure musical fun of it.
I suppose kind of like a Desert Session thing.

 

[pete]

Speed dating for lonely musicians

 

[RayRay]

I love how this has gone from some overpriced shitty music weekend away to something sexy

 

[Lili Marlene]

Paul Simon once taught a third level course in songwriting didn't he? Doubt that one was sexy.

Although he seems like the type of guy who would sleep with his students

 

[nlgbbbblth]

think Phil had his hand in producing another couple of gems - trying to remember what but his name crops up on some Pye late 60s releases.

Sea of Tranquility is shite.

 

[Rimbaud]

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emmm thats a classic reply to a classic thread!!
I think we discussed this track when it was released way back when?? when i was a NKOTB anyways.....arrh the memories....I was good looking back then too.What happened since...

You joined thumped a month before i did incidently....do we not getting anything for being 9 years + old in thumped life???

 

[GO]

Ok I'd never go on a €400 songwriting retreat but I've been seriously thinking about the possibilities of taking the idea and twisting it a bit. Into a songwriting day/weekend type thing. Without too much detail it would involve throwing a bands worth of musicians into a room for the day and seeing what they come up with. This is something that could even be dome through thumped. Something for people who just want to play with and work with random people for the pure musical fun of it.
I suppose kind of like a Desert Session thing.

Anthony I'd be into trying this.....I now have an abundance of time

 

[Anthony]

2 down loads to go

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

@Anthony I'd be into trying this.....I now have an abundance of time

Me too,however,I have zero money to pay for a practice room.

Didn't Coulter write this tune?

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[GO]

No way!

still dosent make up for congratulations though

 

[nlgbbbblth]

emmm thats a classic reply to a classic thread!!
I think we discussed this track when it was released way back when?? when i was a NKOTB anyways.....arrh the memories....I was good looking back then too.What happened since...

You joined thumped a month before i did incidently....do we not getting anything for being 9 years + old in thumped life???

faders123 hopefully appreciated it.

It came out in summer of 1996. I interviewed them backstage at the Mean Fiddler that year but never published it. They played UCD the following night. Good times. Never got their final album - any good/?