Punkie and The Spitfires - music and lyrics by Rob Birdwell
This song was released in 2021 as part of my "Quietly" CD. During the pandemic I started learning ukulele and found it fun and inspiring to write songs on. This one is probably a record for the most lyrics in any song I've written to date, but don't hold me to that!
"Punkie" is a story song and while it assumes some sort of futuristic dystopian era for its setting, it might as well be the present time.
Anyway, I've been sitting on this song for a while - wanting to get it out into the world because I think it's an interesting production. I have never performed it live, but do enjoy playing the chords on Ukulele as some are just cool shapes but are still as mysterious and as magical to me as the time I stumbled upon them and thought, "wow, cool chord! what is it? who cares, I'll use it in a song!"
One possible way of performing this (someday) might be to narrate (speak) through some of the wordy parts and then segue into singing. I've been toying with that idea as it changes things up a bit (saves my voice a little too!) and the switch into singing is an interesting effect. We'll see. Meanwhile, this is but one version and I clearly put a lot of time and energy into the production.
Oh, the middle "battle scene" music/interlude is interesting because it was the one section I had to "score" out as the chords and melody were a bit too much for me to just "ear" my way through. I used distortion on my ukulele and doubled the heavy metal melody with a synth, but of course I'm in no way any sort of "metal" music dude, but hey I tried!
Oh, and finally: there IS trumpet on this track! It's blended in with some synths, but it's there. I try to pepper trumpet or flugelhorn on just about every track I write/produce - whether it needs it or not! It's just a thing I do!
Credits:
Rob Birdwell - lead and backing vocals, synths, bass, ukulele, trumpet, percussion, programming.
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