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Friendship Songs

For the people who are not family, but may as well be.

Thirty years of friendship, a group that still meets every year, or one person who got you through something. Friendship rarely gets a proper gift.

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Friends together in a living room, one of them playing a ukulele

A friendship song is commissioned for a friend or a group of friends, written from the shared history you describe rather than a generic template.

What to tell us

You do not need to arrive with a finished story. These are the sorts of details that make a song feel like it could only be about one person.

  • How you met and how long ago
  • The trip, the house, the year that defined it
  • The running joke nobody outside would understand
  • What you have got each other through
  • Whether it should be funny or sincere — or both

Songs like this

A yellow and white Tyne and Wear Metro train waiting at a suburban platform under a bright, cloudy sky
Indie pop

The Metro, the clubs at the end of the line, and the years in between.

Uplifting · 1980s
Three colleagues in suits talking across a table

Talking Nonsense

For friends who have sat through the same meetings

German electronic / funk

A commentary on business people talking jargon.

Humorous · 2000s
Friends around a wooden pub table, glasses of beer and a bowl of nuts between them

Lucky '63

Big birthday

Sixty-three years on from 1963, for a friend who has collected a few stories.

Celebratory

Questions

Can several of us pay together?
One person orders and we deal with them, but the story can come from all of you. Split the cost however you like between yourselves.

Create a song from your story

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