The Tahora Diaries - Wayne Gillespie

Wayne Gillespie wins awards for the songs he writes.

You can read all about that on his web site. http://www.waynegillespie.com/.

It had been 23 years since Wayne had been to Tahora.

It was great to have him back.

In between times he also did a psych degree research project on the personality of rock musicians. Seems like they do have them!

I went to his song-writing workshop.

Here are some snippets of wisdom from a very fine singer song writer.

"A major writing block for singer songwriters is happiness."

"Songwriters start asking if it is good way too soon."

"2 traps for songwriters - thinking everything you write is great and accepting that a song is good enough even when something is not working."

"I can't write a song if I'm not moved."

"No-one can write a song if you don't make time for it."

"Separate the creator from the editor."

"Get used to brainstorming and make a dick of yourself!!"

And the best thing - I got to play with him!! Talk about mixing with the rich and famous - well famous anyway!

That's me on the 'crate' [ a busking type drum kit] and Brendan Power [more about him in later blog] on harmonica.