Songwright.co.uk is dead. Long live IndieSongwriter.net.
Yes, I’m changing the name of this site to Indiesongwriter.net after four years under the old name.
There are a couple of reasons.
Spelling
‘Songwright’ looks quite good on paper, but when you try and tell people the name of the site verbally, things can get very confusing.
“It’s songwright, but spelled like ‘shipwright’ or ‘playwright’. Get it?”
IndieSongwriter.net, on the other hand, isn’t in any way ambiguous.
You
The second reason is while ‘songwright’ encapsulates something of what this blog is about – the craft of songwriting – it says nothing about you, the audience.
Now, I’ve got a pretty good idea of the kind of songwriter I’m aiming for with this blog, and hopefully you’ll recognise yourself in this description.
I’m writing, as the new name suggests, for indepedent songwriters.
- As an indie songwriter, you mostly perform your own songs.
You put creativity before commercial potential.
You write to express yourself, for the joy of writing.
You aren’t interested in writing for the top-40.
You wouldn’t be at home in Nashville.
You are equally interested in the craft and art of songwriting
You don’t want your songwriting now to be the same as you songwriting in six months’, a year’s, or a decade’s time.
That isn’t an exhaustive list, but hopefully it gives you the idea. This blog has always been for songwriters outside the mainstream, who don’t just want to write a clone of whatever this week’s number 1 hit is. It’s for songwriters who care about the craft and art of what they do.
Now, the name fits with that too.
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Your call at the end of the day but I prefer the old name. It strikes me as more generic and truer to the cause than a name that frankly, looks like one of those fake holding address pages you get directed to when you mistype or misremember a website name. I can’t imagine you actually having to say the name out loud that often – the web is an essentially a visual medium and as you say yourself the name looks good in print. To me, the indie prefix puts me in mind of the jangly guitar band genre, not the hand-made type of record label or musician in a garage, basement, flat, bedroom idea. You could have run a poll or asked for suggestions first. Anyway – lets’s not argue about it – I still like your site and respect the efforts you make to generate new content.
Hi Neil,
actually, I do often have to explain the site verbally – and people don’t get it, so I needed a change. Moreover, as I say in the post, Songwright doesn’t say anything about the kind of songwriter I hope I’m catering to.
‘Indie’ to me just means independent, as in indie label.
But yeah, the content of the site isn’t going to change in anyway.
I’d be interested in other people’s opinions, if anyone has any…