Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?

When you think of swing jazz what do you think of first? THIS NEEDS MORE METAL!

 That is exactly what Jazzy Dystopia thought at our youth music rock band sessions too. In the past couple of months our resident youth rock band Jazzy Dystopia have been coming up with ways to further include everyone’s song writing styles and playing styles during sessions. Their most recent way of doing this was our keyboard player Quil asking if we could write a metal swing song which of course immediately pricked up my own ears for starters as that is a genre I haven’t personally tried to work with much in the past. The rest of the band were also eager to write in this style as most of them hadn’t attempted this either with our music being predominantly more rock/punk vibes. 

We started the writing of this song in a similar way as we usually do, we all sat down in the room and proceeded to partake in the bands favourite song writing stage. The word of the day. This process is where we went around the group gathering each person’s word of the day to then be used to collectively create a theme for the song. Each of the words seemed to be forming the theme of crime, cookies and Dun Laoghaire so of course the only way to go from there was a cookie crumbling criminal on the run from Loughborough to Dun Laoghaire. From there the Idea was born For the tune Cookie Crumbles. 

It was from these themes that the band decided on a chord scheme and a motif between the keys that really bring the song together with that swing jazz feel while also the drums and bassline and distorted guitars smashing that jazzy riff into the metal genre. All we needed then was to gather our words of the day into a string of lyrics. 

We wrote a verse and a chorus all based around the character of Donnie who was an undercover baker who smashed and crumbled cookies criminally all over on the run between various bakeries. The song is of course not a serious song but is one of in my opinion the best songs the rock band has written with comedy and a great story line to the epic music behind it all I can’t personally wait to hear what it sounds like when they go into the studio to record the track in the coming weeks.