[pompeyjazz]

Cool - That makes 6 so far. Let's leave it open for another week as @PaulAds says so others have an opportunity to join in 

[crystalsuzy]

Hmmm? Count me in as well. Hopefully I can come up with something 

[Wicked Deeds]

Cool,  I'm done! at least with the writing task that is!  This one might even tempt me to come out of retirement to fully embellish my guitar and vocal into a full musical production!

Paul

[Wicked Deeds]

I've definitely finished this task as well as the production.  It was fun but also hard work.  It'sdefinitely a mood song and is now up on my soundcloud page under the tile of "Robot 22."  It might need a few days to rest and perhaps I'll add one or two extras but maybe not.

Great challenge John!

Paul

[MichaelA]

So we can get some more occasional songwriters involved, how about we make the deadline on this the middle of Feb? So that’s maybe one more week for folk to sign up, then a four weeks creation window.

Maybe people can start posting songs in Songs For Review from First week of Feb, so they get a proper listen. Sometimes we’ve put the songs all in one thread but they hardly get a notice. So let’s show ‘em off properly 😀

How about these ideas @pompeyjazz? - seeing as you seem to be the man on this (plus many other things of course. 😉 )

[pompeyjazz]

How about a deadline of 22/2/22 ?

[MichaelA]

22/2/22 sounds like a great deadline.

Hopefully some of the members out of practice - such as me! - will have plenty of time to get something together in that timescale.

So if you’ve not been around here for a while, why not make this a way of getting back into the swing of things! 👍

[crystalsuzy]

22/2/22 sounds like a very auspicious deadline! I'm one of those 'out of practice' members. I started working on something the other night and thought

great, I've made some headway, until I listen to it the next day! Not so good!  I'm more out of practice than I thought, so will

definitely need the extra time  

[pompeyjazz]

Anybody else want to join the challenge ,?

[PaulAds]

Persuading more than a handful of songwriters to get involved in a very friendly, low-key, zero-pressure songwriting challenge is proving quite a challenge in itself 😀

I’d love to see a few more folks give it a go…

[PeteS]

Great idea and I'll watch with interest nut I'm probably too busy to write one myself, but you never know🤣

[crystalsuzy]

I think we should just leave it open for anyone who wants to join and gently remind folks every once in a while,
and maybe put it in the finished songs section    

[SlavaB]

Im up for it 👍 especially got free February for the first time in years. Count me in please 🔱

[pompeyjazz]

Well, we've got 8 people who have expressed an interest in the challenge - It's simple really, compose a song around the theme "22" You can interpret this as you want. With regard to the closing date, I know that some folks would like more time, so maybe we declare the challenge open now and when you have completed your song, post in the finished songs section. This is NOT a competition, it's an exercise to see how many different wonderful creations can be sculptured around a very lose theme.

Please feel free to participate. I must say that it seems like pretty hard work to drum up enthusiasm for any kind of challenge. We've had all sorts of challenges in the past and also a song of the month feature which have all seemed to die a death,

Give it a go !!!

Cheers

John

[PaulyX]

Thanks for organising us Pomps... 8 is fine innit... If more want to join then great, but anyway 8 variations on the theme will be really interesting to hear... and Wicked Deeds has already set the bar high!  Just started construction on mine... it's gonna be called "Twenty To" not "22" I think, hope that still counts!