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: Video Blog Posts

#wartour March 2011 : London – Glasgow – Leeds – vBlog Episode 26

VBLOG EPISODE 26 LATEST LIVE VIDEOS - Scared To Capsize - A-Hole - Eyepennies - (Love) Like Liars TOUR PHOTO GALLERY ON FLICKR +++ London-Glasgow-Leeds – not the most sensible of routes perhaps, but this was quite a thrown-together mini tour. A few months ago my Glaswegian friend – photographer,...

Edinburgh, Mini Tour & Midge Ure – Two New vBlog Episodes

Phew – I’ve just got back from a whirlwind trip to Scotland to support the magnificent Midge Ure at Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline on Monday night. I am exhausted but happy – I had a brilliant time. Click here for the Flickr set. After spending the day at Unconvention at...

#wartour Propaganda #5 : Stratford-upon-Avon + Leicester vBlog

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: Bookpirate‘s kind offer of two days rest and reflection at his house in S-u-A towards the end of the tour was gratefully accepted and was the perfect pause to catch up on the Oxford and Cambridge video blogs, work on some new lyrics and play my first official kitchen...

#wartour Propaganda #4 : Cambridge vBlog

CAMBRIDGE: Drizzle and darkness, hordes of chattering students pushing us off the pavement. A saunter across Parker’s Piece reminiscing about teenage shopping trips and stolen cigarettes. A talented friend along for the journey, someone to share mulled wine and stories of my life as a teenage band member with. Good...

#wartour Propaganda #3 : Oxford vBlog + More Tour Pics

Episode 21 of the vBlog covers last weekend in Oxford: two living room shows and a popup street performance plus a look at some local sights and some disturbing facts about ducks: You can read my blog post about it here plus Dylan and Al also posted videos from the...

#wartour Propaganda #1: LEEDS (and vBlog episode 20)

More tour photos here. LEEDS. Steel skies, steam rising from the mouths of happy crowds. The Hope And Social Snowball: singing the Frog Chorus and Living On A Prayer on the town hall steps while Hell’s Angels tie the knot inside, mulled wine and mince pies with friendly strangers, music,...

@warriorgrrl vBlog Episode 19 – Live At The Lomography Gallery Store

A few weeks ago I was invited to play an acoustic show surrounded by beautiful cameras at the Lomography Gallery Store in Central London. How could I refuse? Featuring a ukulele cover of PJ Harvey song “Victory” and a rare guitar performance of “Olympian”, here is vBlog episode...