Sydenham Club presents ALONETOGETHER Music Club which puts out a new music challenge each week. Week 1's challenge was to create a new original track.

Here is Royal Bowie's entry "Alone Together".

A song that tackles the oversight of mental well-being during a time when physical well-being is (justifiably) in focus. The physical solutions for the pandemic are simple. Perhaps that's why they aren't been taken so seriously? Who knows. If only the solutions for mental well-being were just as straight-forward as wash your hands and stay home for a bit.

If the narrator of my song were to describe it he would say:

"I've been locked inside my head long before I was locked inside my room. What advice are we given about how to deal with this global crisis and all the negative thoughts that arise from say, the complacency of a government, irresponsibility of our fellow citizen, the rising death count or the suffering of the living?: Wash your hands, keep your distance. That's it. That's all. The song features an acoustic guitar with heavy echo symbolizing the echos of all this information to the point where the instrument and therefore this avalanche of content makes it barely intelligible. It becomes noise and turbulent in the mind from over-saturation. There is no clear sense of timing in the song as we are all uncertain about when this phase of our lives will end, if at all. The song is about frustration, apathy and self-expression."