Dom Pates: Collected Writings
Blog URL http://pateswritings.wordpress.com/
Located Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Tags writer, writing, author, fiction, lyrics, articles, published, travel, unpublished
The collected writings of British-born writer Dom Pates, including published and unpublished works. It features articles, short stories, interviews, travel writing, reviews, song lyrics and a little poetry.
Latest Blog Posts
- TRAVEL // ‘Japan From The Inside’ preface (2008) on Oct 25, 2009 in 2008 Features Travel Asia Blurb book Japan Japan From The Inside preface self-published Tokyo
Back in my twenties, once I realised that I wasn’t going to make a living as a pop star, I scaled back my ambitions to making sure that I created my first album before I reached thirty. I finished work on ‘Pigeon Souvenirs’, the ant...
- LYRICS // Endgame (2007) on Sep 8, 2008 in 2007 Lyrics Shelf Life Atticus Finch Best Before End Control K Endgame Gandhi Iraq iTunes Japan Martin Luther King Norway Peace PNWJ Sri Lanka Ubuntu
Back in 2004 and with the London march against the invasion of Iraq still fresh in my mind, I made an approach to UK music organisation Peace Not War (PNW), to offer them a track for their then pending ‘Volume Two’ of pro-peace/anti-war m...
- LYRICS // Second Hand Sunshine (2007) on Aug 30, 2008 in 2007 Lyrics Shelf Life Best Before End Enoch Powell fossil fuels global warming internet solar power sustainable lifestyles
‘Second Hand Sunshine’, a title that popped up one day in search of a song, was written as a global warming song. It’s not a subject that seems to have been tackled a great deal yet by songwriters, so it seemed like a good opportuni...
- LYRICS // Ghosts (2007) on Aug 10, 2008 in 2007 Lyrics Shelf Life All India Radio Best Before End Brighton ghosts iTunes Manhattan Saleem Sinai Salman Rushdie The Zamora Tokyo Woody Allen
I was born in Brighton, a seaside town on the South coast of England. Despite this beginning and several later visits to then-still-resident grandparents, I grew up getting to know an entirely different place – Cardiff, the city I got my school...
- LYRICS // Games (2007) on Jul 27, 2008 in 2007 Lyrics Shelf Life Anais Nin Best Before End boys Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation Games girls Montesquieu MySpace New Jersey Turnpike relationships Tokyo
Reading Eric Schlosser’s ‘Fast Food Nation‘ a number of years ago, I was quite struck to find out that many of the smells of American fast food are actually manufactured in large plants off the New Jersey Turnpike and then added to...
- LYRICS // Vonnegut’s Blues (2006) on Jun 17, 2008 in 2006 Lyrics Shelf Life Best Before End bushido Cheney Dylan Hard Rain Kurt Vonnegut MySpace peak oil Rumsfeld
An early attempt at a political song with Shelf Life and our first original song written together. ‘Vonnegut’s Blues’ was written as a (loosely disguised) diatribe about the Bush administration, inspired by a piece written by the la...
- LYRICS // The Tokyoite (2007) on Apr 26, 2008 in 2007 Lyrics Shelf Life Best Before End Bruce Cockburn Donna Summer earthquakes Elvis Costello Gwen Stefani Mount Fuji songs about Tokyo Tokyoite
Living in Tokyo for almost five years was a major and transformative period in my life. The city inspired me in so many ways and, perhaps bizarrely for a place that is considered so impenetrable for most non-Japanese people, opened many doors for me...
