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wjbingley
Dec 26, 20245 min read
2024 Retrospective
I’m coming up to take a breath after a crazy year, and I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the musical side of 2024!...
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wjbingley
Dec 16, 20237 min read
Music For Spreadsheets
The first time I heard Radiohead’s ‘Idioteque’, back in early high school, I hated it. I was in a big classic rock phase at the time, and...
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wjbingley
Jul 16, 20232 min read
Maybe there's light in the end
I wrote 'Maybe' with death on my mind. The lyrics are quite abstract, because I was trying to capture a pretty complex feeling. The...
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wjbingley
Jun 30, 20233 min read
Layers of meaning, layers of paint
I wrote ‘Everywhere I Go’ around the same time I wrote ‘Foxhole’, my previous single. That is, some time around 2010/2011. Rather than go...
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wjbingley
Jun 6, 20234 min read
Down another way...
Foxhole is about the intoxicating rush of young adulthood. I wrote it when I was 20, and I think the best way to give it context is to...
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wjbingley
May 12, 20235 min read
Squarespace: On truth-seeking
I wrote ‘Squarespace’ in a bit of a flurry along with some other songs that have ended up in various places, all inspired by reading...
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wjbingley
Apr 21, 20235 min read
Halogen Dreams - the journey of a song
Every songwriter has their ‘white whale’ songs that hang around for years but never quite make it to land. I’ve had a few of these, but...
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wjbingley
Nov 10, 20223 min read
In progress...
Just a quick update on how everything is going: The Hey Geronimo album is still almost done (down to the last 5% now), but we’ve started...
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wjbingley
Jan 30, 20223 min read
Phase one
I like to think of my music in terms of phases rather than specific projects, and I feel like I’ve just completed the first phase of my...
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wjbingley
Jun 21, 20212 min read
New EP on the horizon
It’s been a while since my last blog entry, but that’s because there have been other things to do — mostly good things! I’ve sent an EP...
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wjbingley
Mar 1, 20214 min read
Uncertain futures
Hello all! As you may have seen, I have just released a couple of songs that I’ve had in the vaults for a few years now. ‘In Submarines’...
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wjbingley
Jan 30, 20212 min read
Return to Melbourne
Well, I finally made it to Melbourne! After the most recent weekend lockdown, my partner Adele and I decided to throw caution to the wind...
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