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We have a new songwriting course available, with 2012 Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter Justin Parker. Please click this link to go to the event page.
Date: Saturday 14 July 2012
Duration: 10am- 5pm
Location: The Guardian, 90 York Way, King's Cross, London, N1 9GU
Price: £149 (inclusive of VAT and booking fees)
Over the course of the day, Newton will share unique insights and personal experiences covering everything from the body and structure of the acoustic guitar, his own experience of learning how to play and the process of creating words to accompany the song.
He will also breakdown some of his signature effects and stylistic idiosyncracies such as using the guitar as a percussion instrument to create beats and the addition of pedals to add bass, where needed.
There will be a great deal of opportunity for Q and A throughout and the session will be tailored in advance to respond to the needs and the interests of the participants.
Newton Faulkner's third album Write It On Your Skin is out on July 9.
Biography
Newton Faulkner knows all about invention.
When he emerged in 2007 he was the fleet-fingered prince of sparkling guitar pop. A graduate of Guildford Academy of Contemporary Music, the then-22-year old kid from Surrey had a million-selling, Number One hit with his debut album Hand Built By Robots.
For his second album, Faulkner had to dream it up all over again when he broke his wrist while on a family skiing trip in France. A disaster of cosmic proportions if you're known as a virtuoso guitarist with a pop Midas touch.
Back in the UK, a crack team of crack surgeons repaired his cracked wrist. Hard to fathom, almost, that the resultant album, 2009's Rebuilt By Humans (see what he did there?) was another joyous burst of sparkle-pop.
You might say, he's helped usher in a new generation of singer-songwriters. Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard and Michael Kiwanuka might be stylistically diverse, but their have-guitar-will-travel approach surely flows from the trailblazing example of Faulkner.
Now, after all that invention, innovation, reinvention and creation, comes Newtown Faulkner's third album, Write It On Your Skin- an album bristling with spontaneity, the best kind of DIY imagination, and songs from unlikely sources but with very likely-lad appeal.