The day has finally arrived – back in September I was flown to Montreal to star in a music video for “Give U More”, a Redroche track Hal Ritson and I collaborated on at the start of 2009. It was a great trip: the Redroche guys are a hoot...

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Am hoping walking ability returns in the next couple of days, at the moment stairs are killing me. My sponsorship page is still open so feel free to leave a tip in the...

Best. Birthday. EVER! I’m just sorry I don’t have photos to share of me raucously celebrating the stroke of midnight on the 1st of June in the small, otherwise quiet bar on the Barcelona-Paris train, my boyfriend and our lovely new travelling companion Chris singing Happy Birthday to me...

Festival season has begun! I’m trying to get out to more gigs these days. Even though things like distance and weather and being crushed in hordes of people tend to put me off, I’m looking forward to the next month of music. I might not be a Glastonbury girl...

On Saturday I attended my first protest march: Million Women Rise. I was nervous about going not because I doubted my commitment to the cause – to end male violence against women – but because I have had so many negative experiences of women in the past. It dates back...

I think my ears are still ringing a little bit after seeing The Cure last night. It was a phenomenal show in a too-slick, too-shiny setting (the O2), but then I’m a bundle of contradictions when it comes to live music. I like the option of sitting down...