2012 5/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat @birdeatsbaby, @maryepworth, #popuppeople and More Besides

1) Birdeatsbaby – Incitatus Brighton based dark cabaret outfit Birdeatsbaby have just released this BRILLIANT new video, and like the last video for “Feast Of Hammers” it’s deliciously spooky. And makes me scared of bands… “Feast Of Hammers” – the album – is released on February 20th and I’m supporting them at their London launch...

“Little Battles” vBlog Episode 1 Online Now! Brighton, Birdeatsbaby, BBC 6 Music and Singing To Seabirds

The first in my brand new video blog series to celebrate my new album coming out on April 9th, woohoo! The album launch extravaganza will be at the Half Moon in Herne Hill, London SE24 on Wednesday 11th April with tickets available very soon. “In This Boat” will be released on February 14th as digital...

2012 4/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Grace Petrie, Brighton and Musical Broccoli

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) Grace Petrie A wonderfully inspiring songwriter and performer I met at last weekend’s Midwinter Picnic 4. She makes music that really gets you in the gut, and her rousing lyrics are still echoing around my head a week on. I should have heard of her...

2012 3/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Gil Scott Heron, Martin Luther King & Handcrafted Chocolate

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) “The Last Holiday : A Memoir” by Gil Scott Heron I’m so thankful to a friend for introducing me to the wonderful work of Gil Scott Heron a number of years before he sadly died, and though I’ve only just started reading this newly published...

“Slow Puncture” On BBC Introducing – Listen Again + Tickets For Feb Shows With @hiband & @birdeatsbaby

Get the song here on a pay-what-you-can basis… I was very excited and pleased to receive an email from the Tom Robinson show last week informing me that “Slow Puncture” would be played on the show early on Monday morning (today), as a result of being selected from songs uploaded to the BBC Introducing Uploader....

2012 2/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Chris T-T, Arctic Hooping & Bike Doctor

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) Chris T-T – “Binker” – the video! I don’t know how I missed this on Twitter last week but I only just stumbled across this gorgeous film. Chris’ 2011 Edinburgh Festival show “Disobedience: Chris T-T Sings A.A. Milne” was one of the musical highlights of...

Category: News

VIDEO: Musical Moonlighting With The Penelopes

Posted 04 Dec 2011 in Music,News,Official News,Photo Post,Video
A few months ago I was contacted by French duo The Penelopes about doing some singing on their forthcoming new album. Having recently relocated to London from Paris, Axel and Vincent made me a veggie lasagne, renamed my dog “Milou” after Tintin’s faithful companion Snowy (he’s called Milou in the...

Get New Album Track “Delete” Now For Free!

Posted 05 Oct 2011 in Music,News,Official News,She Makes War
Delete by She Makes War Click here to stream/download from Bandcamp. And here’s the latest SMW newsletter that went out yesterday featuring ticket buying links for the London launch gig on November 15th, news on my collaborative art show “In This Boat” and info on the forthcoming Kim Boekbinder Kickstarter...

“In This Boat” – Live Video Of New Song + Brilliant Weekend at The Hospital Club + Malcfest

Massive thanks to @mosaiclawns for capturing this performance of “In This Boat” at my Hospital Club gig on Saturday night. I think my nautical dress fit the theme… Big thanks also to Tom Lillywhite for asking me to play and to everyone who came along to watch, I had a...

Lovely Fan, Lovely Review of “Disarm”

Posted 16 Aug 2011 in Music,News,Press,She Makes War
Big thanks to Ian Sadler for his kind words! “her vocal range and multi-instrumental ability endows her with a genius of delivery and versatility that allows for “thirteen tales of love, loss, crap mates, betrayal, homicide and genocide” that many artists and bands would be hard pushed to achieve in...

#ampnms Live Streaming Session – 4pm today!

I’m up in sunny Leeds having fascinating conversations with clever musical thinkers and generally ace people for the inaugural #ampnms live online music knowledge event. Yesterday afternoon Andrew Dubber from New Music Strategies, Rich Huxley from Hope & Social and myself did a live streaming session on entrepreneurship, responding to...

11 Days To Go – Second Album Pre-Order / Pledge – The Whys and Wherefores

I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for weeks, but my already overambitious schedule got thrown out of the window this month by the Tricky tour and I’m just now settling down to start chipping away at the pile of posts, pitches and plans I’ve been filing away in...

Step On Him…

[spotted on Wednesday night in Holborn] WELL DONE Lambeth (my London borough) for voting YES to AV. Yah boo sucks to the rest of you – what a sadly wasted opportunity for reform. Enjoy voting in your droves on the next Pop Factor X Idol Talentless Tripe Brain Melty Telly...