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Jack Cochrane, frontman of indie sensations The Snuts has revealed why the band has revealed why they’d never be able to collaborate on song writing with Lewis Capaldi, despite playing in the same West Lothian pubs before becoming famous.

James Blunt has opened up about experimenting with AI (artificial intelligence) lyrics and being “humiliated” by the results.On the March 19 episode of the I Never Thought It Would Happen podcast with host Chris Difford, the pair spoke about the rise of AI and how younger musicians are turning to software to generate lyrics for them.Blunt went on to reveal that he too had experimented with AI to see if it could create lyrics accurately in his style, but was “humiliated” by the results that he received. Blunt told Difford: “Every single one of us must have, having heard of [AI], typed in and then written ‘Give me a first based on this, in the style of, in my case, a James Blunt lyric’”.“The truth is, either AI comes up with something very, very generic or my lyrics are just absolutely mundane.”“So AI has totally humiliated me whenever I’ve gone and asked it to impersonate myself.

Kelly Jones has revealed that he still dreams about the late Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable “at least five times a week”.Cable played with the Welsh band between 1992 and 2003, before the musician and broadcaster tragically died in 2010. He was 40 years old.During the most recent episode of the podcast I Never Thought It Would Happen – hosted by Chris Difford of Squeeze – Jones opened up about how Cable was “like a big brother” to him after being asked did he “take him on stage with him?” (via Wales Online).“Stuart turns up in my dreams,” Jones explained, saying it was an “intense” time when the drummer passed away.“At least five times a week [I dream about him]. It’s bizarre,” the singer continued.

Squeeze have announced that they are moving their socially distanced London show for a second time due to the coronavirus.Originally set to play the O2 Arena on February 27, the South London band will now perform to a reduced capacity crowd on May 22, 2021.The Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford led group said they pushed the date back “due to the current lockdown in England which has created logistical concerns”.The O2 has planned to scale down its 20,000 capacity to just 4,700 for the show.

DEALSAbsolute Label Services has partnered with Squeeze’s Chris Difford to launch a new label, Songwriter’s Garden. The first release will be a compilation called ‘Song Club’, featuring a collection of songs curated by Difford.

Squeeze frontman Chris Difford has curated an album inspired by the photography of a nurse working on the front line during the coronavirus pandemic.