29/6/26 We lost yet another dear friend to cancer in 2022. I felt very honoured that she asked me to sing Gounod’s Avé Maria on her final sendoff. Because I’d been doing a lot of DADGAD, I worked out the chords and it worked surprisingly…
28/6/26 To the artist who believes music can heal, unite, and spark change: your choice to step away from US Big Tech is powerful. By sharing your songs, stories, and show dates through the Fediverse, you are not just posting updates, you are building a…
Song by Simon Oak about how we risk getting manipulated into online-addiction by shady algorithms. Lyrics Chorus 1, after every verse: Someone knows what we do Someone knows me and you Someone knows where we are and where we go Someone knows I love you…
Tot mijn grote zorg en ergernis blijft WhatsApp hardnekkig gebruikt worden en om mij heen worden links en rechts koppen in het zand gestoken. Als we met z’n allen gebruik maken van één toepassing, dan moeten we daar kritisch mee omgaan, omdat het bedrijf erachter…
A must-see video for every songcollector about how the late Tom Munnely went out to find and record the old Irish songs, reportedly more than 20 thousand! Listen to Christy Moore, Sinéad O’Connor, Thomas McCarthy, Lisa Lambe and Lankum. If you wish, you can also…
Fun song in Dutch for the new king of The Netherlands by Simon Oak, written in 2013. Lyrics Ach werd ik maar geen koning Ach was ik maar geen prins Ach was ik maar gewoon Onbekend en onbemind Maar ik ben zo geboren Uit mijn…
Protest song in Dutch by Simon Oak written in 2017 in response to Erdoğan’s dirty game of sneakily sending a Turkish minister to Rotterdam, in spite of the clear objection from the Dutch government, just days before the Dutch national elections. At the time of…
Uptempo mocking song written by Simon Oak in May 2020, based on jokes that circulated on the internet during the Covid-19 pandemic. On a serious note: we will never forget the hundreds of thousands that lost their dear ones partly due to the massive mismanagement…
Ballad by Simon Oak about the slow process of starting to believe in yourself as a real artist. Ask Simon if you want to know the melody. Lyrics Chorus: We grow as we go When we fall, we just get up We get better as…
Slow children’s song in Dutch that Simon Oak wrote for his three year old. It’s about a little beetle that wished it had a mustache and it tells the story of how it gets it. Lyrics Daar was een heel klein torretje Dat had een…