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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Clapham & Edinburgh...last shows
hello all
just wanted to write a bit about the last 2 gigs, one in clapham at get loaded in the park and the other in edinburgh at the corn exchange.
thanks so much to everyone who came, it's so near the end of this album tour/campaign/whatever, it all feels a bit strange.
firstly i just wanted to apologise for 2 things, 1 being the fact that our set was cut so short at get loaded. another band had over run with their change over so we had to loose about 3 or 4 songs which was a shame, and secondly to people waiting outside the corn exchange.i came out straight after the gig and saw a bunch of people and signed some stuff and i wanted to come out again later but pretty much collapsed in the dressing room and passed out for a bit, i've caught an infection that was going around at leeds and after the gig it took me out and i felt so sick. i went straight to the bus and into my bunk to sleep.
anyway, i really loved the gigs, thanks to everyone who came for being part of it. and thanks to emmy the great and the cribs for playing too. 2 gigs left now and then i'm off to record some demos, learn to drive, and maybe buy a cute bunny.
reccomendations this week...
david bowie.
charles darwin.
dolly parton.
her naked skin.
my winnipeg.
painting.
pots and pans.
pianos.
anyway i'm off to bed with some hot tea to get better for paris and untrecht. see you there.
lots of love.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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Lovely Summer
Hello all
watching irobot on e4 +1. i love will smith.
i've got a bunch of pictures from japan and the festivals we've been playing over the summer so i'm gonna post them up here. Japan really was incredible, like no place i've ever been to. beautiful and ancient and serene dense greenery with nature and history, temple and shrines and then the intensity and madness of tokyo and shibuya, a mish mash of colour, technology and stuff you've just never seen! so cool. and the festival was fun too, up in the mountains and playing my first ever gig in japan. lots of fun.
i've been to glastonbury, t and oxygen, melt, so many festivals, thanks to everyone for making it so fun, i've only got a few gigs left now which is kind of weird. i ended up playing trinity last night, in my hometown of harrow, a gig for my friend pearse, it was his last night promoting there and he put my first ever gig there so that was really cool. pretty chaotic, we could hardly all fit on the stage and i actually toppled offstage, piano, stool and i at one point. it was nice to be back home and see all the friendly faces.
me and my skeleton dancers...they're buff with skin.
mei modelling the scarf i made. it's cosy
elliott with ghost of a thousand at t
marky d...life guru
rad...
the knitting tent
JAPAN!
even the drinks machines are exciting...
famous shibuya crossing
looks like the garden in lost...
kareoke
oh god, baby doll breaks my heart.
that's that.
i've got september off and then i'm going to work on some demos that i've already started work on and am pretty excited about. i'm also going to start work on the next issue of my ignorant youth which i'll distribute at get loaded in the park and edinburgh and at various venues up and down the country.
hope you're all having a lovely summer and are enjoying the great british weather. we've got the paddling pool out and enjoy regular rain filled bbq's. goodnight.x
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Monday, June 09, 2008
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
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Pretty Little Girly Girl
hello everybody
i'm sitting in my living room drinking tea. i've been playing with my dogs drinking tea and watching 'style her famous'. yesterday i went to the doctors, made dinner and went out for a pint. it's been blissfully normal! we're back from america and already diving into new things, i'm going on tour again on saturday! can't believe it. we've had so many adventures already... america was so much fun, we've seen niagra falls...pier 39 with the sea lions and robin williams in san fransisco... drunk fancy cocktails in LA... been on a boat trip in boston to see humpback whales in the wild! (that one was on my list), watched cabaret in new york and been intrigued as to how that lady put that russian doll where she did for so long and manage to pop it straight back out again with such control...i had a cashew nut and apricot jam toasted sandwich, so yummy! ate lobster, ate crab for the first time ever, played at first avenue and watched purple rain with drunken anticipation...had the pleasure of spending over a month with the fabulous trachtenburg family slideshow players who helped to keep us all sane with their gifts, creativity and wisdom and now we're back. and it's all a mish mash, multicoloured, swirly, tye dye, glitter glue, intoxicating, magical blur of memories and polaroids, souveneirs and a few messy suitcases which need to be emptied and repacked. i've tried to upload some photos onto the computer but i can't seem to make it work. i'm such a technophobe.
i'm listening to scarlett johansson's stuff and i really love it. i love the soundscapes and her voice is really low range on it and interesting. it reminds me a bit of sinead o'connor and it's good to listen to and feel nostalgic and thoughtful to, which is how i'm feeling at the minute after all the madness. i read a review about it the other day on the bus (i must have been fucking bored because i hate reading reviews of albums, it always does my head in) anyway it was a fairly good review of the album, from the sound of it the guy liked what he heard, however he chose to end the review rather negatively. he pondered as to who would listen to it anyway? it was a crazy idea and the only people who would buy it would be those who were obssessed with tom waits or who fancied scarlett jonhansson and perhaps she should have just released a perfume instead... this kind of patronising cynicism completley riles me, i can't stand it. everybody makes pre-judgements of other people, even if you don't want to sometimes we can't help it as human beings, it seems to be in our defensive nature and i'm sure everyone had their own pre-conceptions of what an 'actress out of hollywood' might stereotypically bring out musically and cash in on. this might suck, preconceptions usually do, but at least it comes from actual evidence of people doing it before her. if he'd written that he didn't like the idea of it but the album was actually pretty good and even though he didn't want to like it he couldn't help but do so then i would say fair game, honesty's fine by me. but it does my head in that he had to bring it down such a shitty level, cutting her down because he can roll his eyes and pass it off as nonsense because 'she's a pretty little girly girl from hollywood who thinks she can have a go at dressing up like daddy'. shouldn't we just stick to what we do best girls and smell nice? sell ourselves short? and shut the fuck up? it's blatant sexism. it's another thing a girl just simply isn't allowed to do. along with eating, getting old, sweating, swearing, getting drunk, fucking up and going to rehab. and i know if i start talking about this i'm a 'dyke' and 'a man hater' and i'll be 'knocked off that pedalstool missy' but these kind of attitudes should be thought of as prehistoric. if you must attack at least attack fairly, don't be so petty. point is i hate arrogant sexist patronising twats, i'm really more into equality. let's get there already! and i really like scarlett johanssons music. if you haven't checked it out you should do.
p.s i also hate racism, george bush and war.
i'll try and get my photo's uploaded but it might take a while, i'm rubbish with computers.
Lastly just wanted to thank everyone for all the continued support! you're all amazing and keep me going. thanks to everyone for being so nice in america when it was so big and scary and long, and for the lovely welcome home in coventry, leeds and newcastle. x
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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laura marlings album is so good
i’m sitting in a hotel room in germany, we’re doing a gig tonight in hamburg for some sort of radio gig. we were in berlin yesterday, and i actually managed to get a chance to look around the place a bit, if you haven’t been to germany you have to go, it’s a really great country. i bought some shoes and some cameras, we saw the last remaining bits of the original bit of the berlin wall, the brandenburg tor and the memorial for the murdered jews of eurpope which was really quite intense. it’s very uniform and could be representative of a number of things, it switches between being a grey, swirly maze and an excellent playground for children and a rather breathtaking and thought provoking, very serious piece of memorial art. worth a visit.
well things have been as usual absolutley mad recently.after flying home from australia i had two weeks in london rehearsing for tour, recording b sides, going to awards shows, doing bits of press and trying to fit in sleeping,eating and seeing the people that i love. i’m still getting my head around winning the brit, thanks so much for your support, can’t believe it. and the nme and elle award, again thanks. then i did my uk tour going up and down the country visiting here and there, went on the scary rides at the funfair and lost some shrapnel on the machines. we ended the tour in hammersmith apollo which blows my mind. i remember when i was mixing my album in the back of the place and trying to sneak my head round the door when blondie was playing. we had confetti machines and a fancy dress party for the aftershow. fun was had!
2 days later i’m on a flight to texas for sxsw, i played 3 acoustic shows out there, 2 with billy bragg! and i had the best time at those gigs, there were about 200 or so people at each and i could really see into everyones eyes, communicate my songs to them and try out new stuff which is always fun. i also watched the cribs at stubbs, and peggy sue and the pirates at a really cool bbq with a handbuilt stage and a pond! then i saw tiny masters of today and thought they were the best thing ever. and later watched my friend hollie play with the slits. then we went to a party and i flew out to new york the next day to play with the pogues and billy bragg again. i played my tin whistle seeing as it was st.paddys day the next day & everyone was happy with that.
then i flew out to athens, georgia and hung around on the cribs tour for a bit. jeffrey lewis & the jitters were supporting and if you haven’t heard that then you should check that out too. as soon as you can...so rounding up that’s 1.tiny masters of today 2.billy bragg 3. the cribs 4.peggy sue & the pirates 5.the slits 6.the pogues & 7. jeffrey lewis & the jitters. you’ll get some excellent mixed tapes out of those.
hmm. erm, so back from america and 3 days off for easter. i saw my family, caught up with a few friends and watched some old episodes of buffy. bliss. i also wrote a story about a rat that will probably be in the next issue of ’my ignorant youth’ (which is at last on it’s way! hooray!) i did a gig at guildford uni and stayed over at my sisters house for the house. then it was back home to mess of suitcases that is my room and emptied a few and swapped dirty clothes for clean and tried to figure out what i’m going to do with all the crap i keep buying on tour, maybe i’ll have to move out one day, and here i am in germany, listening to the smiths in a hotel room and writing a blog.
i just remembered i actually wanted to clean up something somebody told me was written about me in the papers. from what i’ve been told it was under the header ’nash bash’ in a tabloid. that’s quite exciting really i’ve been waiting for those, here’s some more for any journalists reading this tripe... ’nash’s secret stash’ my shoplifting habbit gets out of hand on the kings road ’nash has a tash’ for when it’s been a while since my last wax/bleach ’ ’nash gets mashed, and we’re not talking potato’ ’nash show us your gash’ is often a popular one for the more crude member of the public. and ofcourse there’s the classic ’nash flash’ shot of me stumbling out of a car somewhere in soho at 3 in the morning after, gasp, drinking! with a star over where my kinckers should be. anyway what i really wanted to say was that it said i said nasty things about leaona lewis which aren’t true. i met leona at the brit awards backstage and she was a really sweet girl. i think what happend there was one of those clever dick edits where i’m asked about leona, then the x factor to which i reply ’no, i wouldn’t do the x factor, i want to write my own songs, have creative control, the whole ’popstar’ thing was an accident blah blah blah’ and then they say ’yeah you’ve worked really hard haven’t you?’ and i say ’yeah, i guess i have done. well yeah i have.’
and cut,paste,move, edit and a few adjectives later...ta...daa. the female on female bitch slagging match begins. i’m not into it. i specifically said heads up to all the other girls in the category ’best british female’ at the brits helping to eradicate the misconception that female is a genre. anyway. enough of that. i just wanted to clear that up.
i’ve got to go do a tv thing now, i’ll put up some pictures later tonight.
take care.
oh and i listened to laura marlings album for the first time on the train today and it really is beautiful. katy and rosa have been telling me for ages. also i love soko.
x
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Monday, January 21, 2008
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At long last!...
I've finally got round to doing a new blog!
just to let anyone whos interested in my ignorant youth, it's being distributed at various venues and some shops around the country... king tuts - glasgow, the social - Great Portland Street london & Nottingham, Trinity - HARROW BLAP, The Good Ship - Kilburn, Rough Trade, The Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, The Louisiana - Bristol, The Birmingham Glee Club, Liverpool Barfly, Manchester Night & Day, I think that's it for the moment... if i got it wrong please let me know.
Anyway, I'm in Australia at the Big Day out! it's so beautiful here, i went to the jungle yesterday and to byron bay and saw some really beautiful cliffs and sea views. mmm lovely.
we've also been to toronto and had a really amazing gig to kick off the tour with, then New York and San Fransisco and LA! went to the best record shop ever in LA - amoeba records, so so good. and in san fransisco actually. I think I only ate burgers and milshakes in LA. But i'm making up for it with lots of delicious fish in australia. so fresh n wild. yum.
i've been watching bjork and arcade fire from the stage and watched rage against the machine in the pit and nearly got killed. it was fun. i've also been swimming with the sharks in new zealand but i'm far too fair skinned (pasty) to be eaten at the moment so so far so good.
the gigs have been going so well i feel really happy.
here's some long awaited photos from the UK & European tour at the end of last year and then some of now! hope you are all well and happy in the new year!x
me & the cheese drumsticks
Lee's Brithday Cake!
WIll - tALK tAXIS!
hENNNNRRRRYYYY CROSS - INVENTOR OF LIFE
rosa of peggy sue with jays beard
the cutest girl ever in bristol!
meg king wong
breast
me & Katy klaw
Halloween! with claudine and corrado!
MONITORINGMONITORING GRAAAAHAM
Simon - man of beer and oddjob
EUROPE...
mmmmm cake
walter in berlin....
samwise gamgeeee
the goose
MISC.....
THE BEN N JERRY!
Getting wisdome off Billy bragg
Ritus Baby. so so sweet.
Merry Cribsmass
NEW YORK...
too trendy
dancin at discos...
only in new york...
elliott hamdrews
!!! ed gets lucky at changs
that's it so far folks...more to come, when i upload some more pictures. take care.x
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Sunday, October 07, 2007
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sunday blogs
usually it's a nice day to have a lie in but i was up bright and early this morning at 6:00 am! to catch a flight back from dublin and the day before that paris at 6:00 am too. horrible o'clock if you ask me but if you can believe it i wasn't actually late. we had to fly over to do a couple of tv shows. and we got to stay in the hilton in paris in a suite which was huge. it had like a living room and everything. and then in dublin me and mei-ling got into ordering quite a lot of room service. club sandwichs, soups, salad, creme brulees and each flavour of ice cream and 2 chocolate and brandy mouses. room service is so fun, i didn't realise, never really used it before.
I also went to new york recently to do my first shows over there which was a bit daunting but also so cool to be in new york. i did loads and loads of press but somehow managed to find an hour here and there to bring back enough stuff to have to buy a new case to fit it all in! all the vintage dresses were like $14! that's like what £7. theses amazing 50's ones with collars and cuffs that would have cost about £50 over here. also got loads of dvds, and cds. fun fun fun.
find this song - the zombie jamboree. it's so good. and perfect for halloween. which i love. and cannot wait for. i love the autumn, it still feels like going back to school, it makes me want to buy new pens and books and go to the cinema and theatre lots.
Mouthwash is out now. there's a few b sides, a cool recording of stitching leggings and a new song 'Take 'em back' There's been a mistake in regards to the title on the back of the vinyl. it says 'out' instead of 'back' ugh. annoying. but please just take a pen and cross it out. and write in ' back'. then i'll be so happy. There's also an old demo from iceland on one of the vinyls. dirt. a bit of a serious one really that i used to play back in the day.
just to clear this up, on wikipedia it says i used to so robbie williams covers. what the hell? ofcourse i didn't. where did that come from. anyway. sorry robbie but i don't know how to play your songs or the lyrics so it would have been quite impossible. apart from maybe that angels song. that one sounds pretty easy i think.
so i'm uploading pictures on here and in between the loading time i'm trying to tidy the house as my mum and dad are away and coming back tomorrow. the dogs have chewed mostly everything and left the remains all over the living room. then there's bottles of wine and pizza boxes around, and some dusting to do. i feel like a domestic goddess. i just did the hoovering and i'm gonna go buy some milk and bread and maybe cook dinner for my sister. impressive. i need to unpack about 4 suitcases aswell that i've been living out of.
anyway go buy mouthwash. the artwork looks so nice, the big croc, shark and pirahanas. has anybody seen pirahana? always on channel 5. there's a 1,2 and 3. i think in the third one they can actually fly. great b film.
I'm so excited about coming out on tour, we're gonna have brett with us. he's really good. we're rehearsing and getting ready for it. jay's mum is gonna get us some vitamins and i suppose i'll have to get all my washing done pretty soon. can't wait to see you lot. you're all amazing and supportive and i can't believe it really. thanks very much. it's cooler when i'm out on the road really because then i can see everybody and it's a bit more human than just hearing stuff that just confuses the heck out of you. heck. i said heck.
anyway. here's some pictures...
some of you at bloomsbury
me and my sisters in the dressing room
me and blah blah blah
On the way to bestival
elliottt the 'whirlwind' andrews
'get me robert de niro'
jokes
the band. we really are so in love
my favourite person at bestival
meg king wong
Jay makes an effort
Getting changed in the van
with mei in the dressing room. we got free muesli? bars
Dancing to the gossip
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Thursday, September 06, 2007
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sorry for the longness
but i did do this blog and then it got deleted and then i went to germany for 2 days and didn't have time to redo it. but now i'm back. i had 2 long days of just promo and everyone in germany must have got a funny biog because i kept getting told they heard i had a difficult childhood and that i used to cover a robbie williams song. this ain't true folks. just so ya know. anyway i'm in my room and i'm listening to the beatles so here goes.
so what else have i been doing? well everything is a whirlwhind and a blur so i'm not sure if i can remember...
reading was the best gig of my whole life! i wore a fancy frock, jay brought sparklers and someone threw a lemon at me so hard i actually said oh shit down the mic (but managed to carry on singing like straight after, the next line.) next time throw glitter or confetti.
erm, yeah but thanks for the thousands of you that showed up and crowd surfed! and shouted and sang. that was the most fun ever. there was the biggest crowd ever before seen. (this is not fact, pretty sure it wasn't the biggest crowd ever before seen in the world, but i'll say anything to make a good story) and they gave me such a buzz. then after i hung out backstage with marilyn monroe and some dinosaurs.
been doing all the festivals over the summer. went to belgium and holland. did leeds, cardiff, edinburgh t on the fringe, electric gardens,etc. i did a signing at hmv, the album chart show, my album went to number one! which i can't believe and express my happiness at how i managed to connect with that many of you. i tried to save the camden stables, got papped, played at the gq awards in front of people like jude law, paul mcartney, michael caine and elton john!
i've also recently met 2 of my favourite people johnny clarke and simon pegg. which was so cool. and they both liked my music which makes you think you must be doing it right, when people you admire get what you're about.
i've also done bits of tv and lots of interviews. and i hun out in paris for a bit, went up the eiffell tower, went to the louvre and a skeleton museum! so cool. ate a few bloody steaks, ew and went to a spa! paris is the most beautiful city. i love it. i even managed to read some maps which i'm usually incapable of doing. i think they must have found me so annoying in the hotel, i rang reception so much and they kept sending up the one guy there who couldn't speak english and we'd speak to each other in a different language for a while and be like cool, and he'd leave and neither of us knew what the hell just happened.
apart from that i've been recording some new b sides which i like and my video is out for the mouthwash i think. i've also been writing so many stories which i'm going to make into a little magazine and give out at gigs on tour. that sounds like fun.
looking forward to tour and seeing everybody on the road.
we've got peggy sue, metronomy, talk taxis, beans on toast and natty on tour with us. lots of really lovely folk to hang out with and listen to. going to be lots of fun.
me and jay had quite a laugh in germany winding up our tour manager and eating lots of sweets and watching weird tv shows that were just kareoke competitions with cheesy sleezy guys singing gross songs. i wish i had sky.
i think i'm going to go out for a quiet pint and a dance with a friend now.
then maybe i'll watch amelie before bed as i still feel quite french.
lamb for dinner.
yum
hope everyone is well and once again thanks for all your support. and sorry for neglecting the myspace a bit.
a german journo asked me about how because i was 'real' and not a pop personality, isn't it kinda horrible when people hate me they really actually hate me and i have nothing to hide behind. i was like well yeah, to be honest i am just as annoying in person as i am on record so if you don't like it you really won't like me.ha.
goodnight all.
here's some pictures.x
electric gardens
hmv signing
album chart show
we went to see prince!
jays new hair
a stud
me and mei-ling at pukkelpop
elliott trying to be jack
jack being jack
signing in belgium
mei-ling can actually fly these days
i love her
quite a lot
elliott got confused
some flowers
inverness
fun in inverness
our bus!
paris
and paint i found in the road
that's it for now.byeee
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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ALBUM EXCLUSIVE...
Here's the track listing for my album!!!
It's called made of bricks. and the artwork is really nice. everything is finally properly packaged and ready to go. i'm very happy about that.
1. Play
2. Foundations
3. Mouthwash
4. Dickhead
5. Birds
6. We Get On
7. Mariella
8. Shit Song
9. Pumpkin Soup
10. Skeleton Song
11. Nicest Thing
12. Merry Happy
and that's all i can remember
apart from......
i couldn't sleep at all last night after the gig in sheffield. stayed up all night worrying about all the final deadlines which were this morning at nine o'clock...
then i had about three hours sleep and got a call from my manager with some over the top news... that i'm number one in the charts today!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahahaha. i can't believe it. i've never found it so easy to get out of bed before. peggy sue stayed over so i ran and woke them up earlier than the rule we had all agreed to. we all danced and then they played me some of their new songs which made me more than happy. then we had some ben and jerrys. now i'm going to have some champagne. thankyou thankyou thankyou for buying it!! it's so weird but wonderful too.
had fun at t4 on the beach aswell. that was again weird. everybody was very shiny and famous which was rather exciting. we watched the maccabees play and as usual they were the best thing i saw that day.also! i met girls aloud. well, cheryl and nicola, it was so fun. they were really nice and said good luck with the single which was so sweet. me and my band were all very starstruck to be honest and ofcourse the boys fancied the pants off almost everyone in the room.
i'm going to go and enjoy the sunshine now. have a nice day.x
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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