1.The First Song I Wrote
I’ve been writing songs since I can remember, so I don’t know anything about the first song I wrote – I can imagine it being about heartbreak from a very naïve point of view!
2.The Last Song I Released
The last song I released was ‘Red Car, Cold Heart’, which I’m incredibly proud of. I wrote it quite quickly and then the process of recording, producing, mixing and mastering took time. I also released a video clip along with the single, so it’s one of my most important releases.
3.Songwriting Secrets
With most of my songs, a guitar pattern happens first, then I come up with the melody and lyrics at the same time to go along with the melody. When I get into the process of writing a song, it usually happens quickly and all pours out at once. I have never been a person that comes back to an unfinished song a few weeks later to complete it.
4.The Song That Makes Me Proud
The song I am most proud of so far is my latest release, ‘Red Car, Cold Heart’. When I finished writing it, I immediately felt like it was a step above my other releases, and means a bit more to me. Something about ‘Red Car, Cold Heart’ that not many people know is that I wrote it in about an hour – it was a really quick process and I was pretty happy with the result! I put it down for a night and came back to it the next day feeling the same way, and that’s always a good sign to me.
5.The Song That Changed My Life
Bon Iver’s cover of ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ (originally written and performed by Bonnie Raitt) is an important song for me. I remember the first time I heard it and I was just mesmerised; I must have listened to it 20 times over and over that night! The emotion he is able to capture in that song is amazing and really struck a chord for me. The way Bon Iver emotes in his music is a big inspiration to me, and I heard it at a point in my life when I was deciding where I wanted to go in the next few years, education-wise. I would say that this song was one of the many reasons I decided to complete a Bachelor of Music at the Australian Institute of Music, which happens to be one of the sponsors of the Surry Hills Festival! AIM was one of the best music decisions I’ve made, and I’m really excited to be able to support the Surry Hills community by playing alongside some incredible artists at the Surry Hills Festival.
Lucy Lowe plays atSurry Hills Festival 2015, taking place atWard Park and Shannon Reserve onSaturday September 26.
