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I remember me and the band talking about something during the last show, right before we came on. I’d like to share what we spoke about with you.

Here goes:

Imagine yourself starting on a journey of making music. You start playing simple songs. Simple melodies, simple lines, because that’s all you know. Soon, you get tired of the simple stuff. You learn more. You get more technical. You learn new chords, new riffs, new melodic lines, new scales. You play more. You play faster. You let ‘er rip. You like it. You feel like you’re really making good music now. Everything you play you put all you know into it. Then, one day, you listen to your own playing and you find that there’s something wrong with it. It’s too bloated. There’s just too much going on. Most of it doesnt add anything at all, apart from more notes. You decide to pare your stuff down. You tell yourself to play only what you feel is right to be played, at the right places. And when that happens, a strange realision comes over you - you find that you’re playing the same way you did when you started off. Simple stuff. Stuff that worked. But this time, so much is different. The notes are the same, but the thoughts behind the music have totally changed. It’s a new paradigm, and with those thoughts, the music becomes something else. It changes. The simplicity belies the depth of musicality behind it. It’s funny. You end up playing the same way, but you have to have gone through everything before you know what you’re really playing.

I don’t know whether to laugh hysterically or wail uncontrollably.

A few months ago I wrote a song called ‘Blood On My Sleeve’. Loved it. Still do. After playing it last night, ending our set with it, a friend told me to listen to an Oasis song, ‘Married With Children’.

I just heard the song.
And,
Haha.
Sob sob.
Ha.
Sob.
They ripped me off. Only that they somehow managed to travel into the future and rip the song off and pass it as their own in their debut album. Somehow.

The opening chords are exactly the same, played the same way!

Granted, it’s a different key, and the melodies are different, but still.

Now it’s a matter of trust whether you believe me or not, but I haven’t even heard of that song before today. And now I’m torn between discarding a song I love and wrote (with all honesty, by myself) or keeping it, because the Gallagher brothers have a time travel machine and I don’t.

You know what,

Screw you, Gallagher. I’m keeping it!