Well ok not quiet yet but with two weddings to attend and the presents only half knitted I need to think Christmassy. Also I wanted to try and get all the hard graft for The Little Book of Festive Poetry sorted. I was going to leave the audio version until next year but I’ve built […]
I live near Cheltenham and that town has some very good poetry nights etc… so back in May madness saw me going along to Slak Bar to an open mic at Earshot (probably my favourite poetry night). But this time it was opened up so that the open mic included acoustic so I thought I’d […]
Video of me performing political stuff including a protest song! Sound quality is naff sorry about that!
I am mainly working on Ballads of the Scientifica at the moment. I need to get it finished to send copies to people who have generously sponsored me. But more than that I have found a science open mic night called Science Show Off which seems like exactly the sort of thing I should be […]
My husband looks a lot like the singer Gotye so over a half term at the beginning of the year me and my family decided to make our own video. It takes elements from Gotye’s own video for his song Somebody That I Used to know and from Walk Off The Earths cover plus I […]
Last weekend was not only full of lots of lovely poetry events but I found out that I have won a bronze medal in the Gloucestershire Creative Olympics for my song Windy Gloucestershire 🙂 So I shall be going off to a lovely looking event at the end of April. Then on Sunday I managed […]
So tomorrow I am going to Oxford to read at The Not The Oxford Literary Festival, here is the Facebook events page. I have been working on a collection called Political Converse and the theme for the reading is Socio-Politics-Protest in literature so I will be reading poems from that such as Recipe For Riot […]
This week is National Science and Engineering Week 2012 here in the UK – it is a week of events and out reach to show just how much we need science, and how much fun it can be along with just what is still out there to discover! I am of course the Scientific-Artist or […]
Basically I have been learning the guitar for a year – this is me at home with books – I did have some guitar lessons during my GCSE’s which was half a lift time ago now. It was about a years worth and as my coordination and musical knowledge were pretty bad at the time […]
The first of my songs I recorded was the first half of a song I wanted to sound like medival babes but then I found ambient voice which adds echos and with some chopping of bits of the song etc… created the dance-ette version. I like it though it is basically a remix even though […]