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Twin Monarch are James Lindsay and Rob Shiels, a songwriting, co-writing and production duo operating internationally. Read our guides on how to write great pop music songwriting and production.
Twin Monarch
2y ago
Twin Monarch’s Rob will be teaching an 8-week songwriting evening class in Marino College Dublin this autumn. Course Details: Are you a budding songwriter looking to improve your skills? […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
It’s fun to write a song from the perspective of an unpleasant character. Pop music has enough love songs, so it can be refreshing to write something from an alternative […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
Elvis used it, Ed Sheeran uses it. In this month’s songwriting article, we take a look at one of the most enduring (and embarrassing) clichés of popular music: putting ‘tonight’ […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
We are delighted to be included as one of the Top 75 Songwriting Blogs over on Feedspot! Big thanks to our readers and the crew at Feedspot. It’s nice to […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
Update: She did it! The album is 103% funded! Congratulations to Rebecca, and big thanks to everyone who pitched in! Eighteen thousand and eighty (18,080) US dollars! To date, our […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
For a professional songwriter, Nashville is where it’s at. The city is abuzz with young, commercially-focused writers and artists spending every hour of the day on writing, co-writing and performing. Country […]
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2y ago
She’s back with a new track, but is it any good? Her last two lead singles were ebullient slices of joyous pop – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Red) […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
Malibu is the lead single from Miley Cyrus’ as-yet-untitled new album. It’s also a comeback single of sorts: Her last album, recorded with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, was […]
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2y ago
Welcome to the latest entry in Twin Monarch’s series of Songwriting Guides. This is the first in our two-part guide on How To Write A Great Pop Pre-chorus. Feel free to […]
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Twin Monarch
2y ago
For the first (and possibly last) in our series of guest posts, Twin Monarch invited musical misanthrope Fergal Stockton to give his thoughts on Ireland’s entry for Eurovision 2017. I […]
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