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: Serious Shit

Sharing Is Power – Get Involved

Posted 03 Oct 2011 in Community,Serious Shit,She Makes War
Dear fellow musician Have you ever thought that it’s an incredibly inefficient use of your time to spend all day at the computer, copying and pasting information from blog after blog in to a spreadsheet when you’d rather be rehearsing / writing / recording / pulling teeth? Have you ever...

I’m Recording A New Album… [ #smwalbum2 ]

…and I haven’t blogged about it much. Weird! The main reason of course is because I have a loyal gang of Pledgers who have kindly pre-ordered the new record along with buying all sorts of other goodies via my Pledge Music project page. This page stays open until November 1st...

She Makes War for Katie on 10th September 2011

Tickets are now available for a very special gig this September – I’m hosting and performing at a benefit show for Katie Huttlestone, a fantastic girl who is undergoing treatment for stage 3 breast cancer – at the age of 21. Katie has been sharing her story so far via...

You Are 125% Wonderful (I Knew That Already)

What a brilliant week – not only did I get to sing on stage with Carina Round and her fantastic band for her shows at London’s Dingwalls and Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds, meet Gary Go, Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls and spend some time with my lovely sister, but you...

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...

Pledge Music Campaign Launches Today at 12pm!

But first – are you coming to my gig on Saturday at London’s Borderline? I’m on stage at 7.30pm followed by My First Tooth then headliners Tom Williams and the Boat – it’s going to be a marvellous night and you can get in for a mere fiver if you...