‘Anything, just play it loud, ok?!’

So, I listen to music. No shock there. I’m sure you do too but you might have wondered what it is I listen to when I write. I actually have several playlists that I have built over the years. These I play in the background whist I tap away at the keyboard. To call them an eclectic mix of tracks would be doing them an injustice. As I work my way through a story I drag this track and that track from my main playlists into a purpose-built one for the book. By the end, I have a list of themes and mental images, some more obscure than others. Some I have in my head as the soundtrack to a scene or the imaginary credit roll at the end of the imaginary movie. Others are tracks I use just to get into the mood for writing.

Anyway, I thought it would be good therapy to allow the world a little further into my brain. Below are listed just a few of the tracks that have had either a direct or indirect affect on the production of Havoc, my first novel. There are over four hundred and forty tracks in total so I wasn’t going to list them all. They have no specific order, in fact here they are listed in alphabetical order (that’s just how iTunes exported the list) so don’t read anything into the order of tracks. For some reason there seems to be a lot of Creedence Clearwater Revival. The author cannot explain this…

Jimi Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower

Smash Mouth, All Star

Thomas Newman, April        

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising

3 Doors Down, Citizen / Soldier

KONGOS, Come With Me Now

Underworld, Cowgirl Techno

Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire

Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son

The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter

Mark Ronson, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

KONGOS, Hey I Don't Know

Vangelis, I'll Find My Way Home

John Williams, Jurassic Park

Fatboy Slim, Love Island

Cafe del Mar, A Man Called Adam

Harry Gregson-Williams, The Martian Score Suite

Orbital, Halcyon & On & On

Led Zeppelin, Over The Hills And Far Away

Iggy Pop, The Passenger

John Williams, Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Fontella Bass, Rescue Me

B.B. King, Right Place Wrong Time

The Clash, Rock the Casbah

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Run Through the Jungle

The Faces, Stay With Me

Stevie Wonder, Superstition

Massive Attack, Teardrop

ACDC, Thunderstruck

Timo Maas, To Get Down

Fleetwood Mac, Tusk

John Barry, Zulu