July 5th - Moley Moley Moley...
Hehehe... Austin Powers...
So I'm lying on the sofa watching TV, eating soya deserts and homemade vegan chocolate fudge cake (seriously I sometimes think I should quit singing and make cakes for a living) and alternating between drinking wine and chocolate chai and having deep conversation with my cat, Nibbler. THIS HAS BECOME MY LIFE. To be fair, I was actually going to go out tonight but after traipsing up to the bus stop to catch the last and only bus, in the pouring July rain, only to witness it drive away from me 5 minutes earlyyy. Which pissed me off a little bit because I have wasted hours of my life waiting for that bus and when it's not late it's early. blah blah blah...Devon..blah. I would say I'm itching to get back to Liverpool but in a way I kinda still love it even though I have become the world's biggest RECLUSE.
I haven't blogged in a while because I haven't really had anything to say about my music.. but I guess I'll just blab about other things instead. My gig in London was really fun actually, let's talk about that. I was playing on the bill with some friends from LIPA. Ada and the Deadlocks and Jess Taylor (both in top friends) among others.. who you should totally check out because they are great and I am always proud to play with them. Anyway I think I went down pretty well and I went out with my Londony friends after the gig to Souk in Convent Garden which is this amazing little candlelit restaurant/tea room/cocktail bar. We drank cocktails (well I drank Pimms because I can't stomach cocktails because of this time where there was sick...) and we ate hommous and pitta bread and strawberries it was kind of perfect. I should write a song about it.
I should also mention another magical experience I had lately which was going to Glastonbury last weekend. It was my 4th year in a row but I'd say my favourite one so far. We spent most of our time hanging out in cafes in the green fields, stalking Johnny Flynn (it wasn't our fault he played three times!), drinking Brothers pear cider out of paper cups (sorry, planet...) and eating AMAZING food. The food was probably my favourite part of the weekend. I have a new found love for mexican food. We found a place near the Park stage (another frequent hangout) which gave you absolutely everything on a plate and at first you're like "I'm never going to eat this" but then you do and it tastes soo good. My favourite performances of the weekend were probably.. Johnny Flynn at the Bimble Inn (3rd time and so by this point had lost all pride and danced like loons on loon tablets), Laura Marling on the Park stage, which was on Sunday and Sunday is always amazing because we dress up and drink a bag of wine, ha! Speaking of bags of wine, we went to see Noah and the Whale at the Queen's Head and met some other peeps with bags of wine and so we all danced and sang and drank our wine and it was grand. Nizlopi were also a joy to watch, but perhaps my favourite part of the weekend was watching Martha Wainwright in the Lounge which is a tiny venue and everyone sat cross legged like in school except we weren't singing crap songs to an out of tune piano. She played solo which is how I love her best. She gave me chills. CHILLS.
So yaaaaa.... i guess I'm kinda blogged out for the mo. I'm also not really concentrating anymore because I'm watching Austin Powers and I had forgotten how absolutely genius it is.
This was fun! I will blog again. Looove xxx
Oh yeah, these are the other bands I saw at Glasto. Allll fantastic. Check them all out.
Friday:
Eugene McGuinness (Park)
KT Tunstall (Pyramid)
Johnny Flynn (Cafe tango)
Nizlopi (Cafe Tango)
Saturday:
Emmy the Great (John Peel)
Martha Wainwright (Pyramid)
Nizlopi (Croissant Neuf)
Martha Wainwright (Lounge)
Metronomy (Dance East)
Johnny Flynn (Strummerville)
Johnny Flynn (Bimble Inn)
Battles (Park)
Sunday:
Mumford and Sons (Park)
Peggy Sue and the Pirates (Cafe Tango)
John Mayer (Pyramid)
Mystery Jets (Park)
Laura Marling (Park)
Noah and the Whale (Queen's Head)
Tunng (Park)
Oh and we heard The Verve play The Drugs Don't Work and Bittersweet Symphony from our tent on Sunday night, which was quite special.
Music: Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons
June 16th - London Calling
Yo! I'm playing an acoustic showcase for London Calling (http://www.londoncalling2008.com/) on Thursday. It's at SIN which is on Charing Cross Rd and near Tottenham Court Rd station. I'm on at 9.40 for about 15-20 minutes as part of an acoustic night in the Basement. I think Frank Turner is headlining upstairs. If you want to come then send me a message and I will put you on either the £5 list or free list if you get in early! I have some friends playing too and they are all great musicians.
I will blog properly one of these days!
Love yoooou xx
Music: Johnny Flynn, Peggy Sue, Noah and the Whale
April 5th - Cross Your Fingers, Hold Your Toes...
I just can’t get over how good Laura Marling is.
I felt that need to be said.
April 1st - Easter
I just posted a new song up on Myspace. It’s a demo of a song called "Maybe We’ll Fly" that I did for our spring songwriting assessment at LIPA. It had to be ’inspirational’. Let me know what you think!
I’m on easter holidays at the moment and seriously, the last 2 weeks have been so amazing. I have done next to nothing. I can’t remember the last time I’ve had so many late mornings.... been able to watch 6 episodes of Buffy in a row... spent a week in pajamas...
It’s made me really appreciate living in Devon I guess. Especially at this time of year. I couldn’t count how many daffodils and little lambs and bunny rabbits and kittens I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks. On the other hand I also spent a great few days in London last weekend.. went to see some bands (check out Flowe, please), chilled at my cousins house and had a kick ass time wandering around the back streets of Covent Garden. Had tea in a candlelight Moroccan cafe which was exactly like an Amsterdam coffee house except with one obvious exception... Also spent all of saturday night at home drinking wine by candlelight as Earth Hour turned into Earth Evening... Being without electricity really makes you appreciate great conversation. It helped that I was with two of my favourite people on earth. And one of my favourite places on earth. I need to get me an I heart London tshirt. now.
It’s gonna be so hard going back to uni because as much as I love it... I am soooo relaxed here...
Rosie x
March 4th - Guess who...?
..Came to see me play tonight?
Only fucking BEN ELTON.
It was about 10 minutes before I was meant to go on stage and Mark (the promoter) was like, "by the way, Ben Elton is here to see you play".... obviously I'm like "lolololol whatever". But he wanted to check out LIPA talent apparently (he's doing a musical with ALW at LIPA) and he watched my whole set then I had a chat with him after. He was soo nice and saying I had a wicked voice and great songs etc. Ben Elton!!
One to tell the grand kids. :)
February 28th - Earthquaaaakkkke
Last night we had an earthquake. It was weird. It wasn't bad in Liverpool but I felt it. First one ever. It was such an odd sensation... I didn't even know what it was. I just wondered why my room was vibrating. It was a 5.2 and the biggest earthquake Britain has had in 24 years.
Makes you think... the earth is one big etch-a-sketch.
Weird.
February 10th - FATEA Review
http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/releasesac.html
Rosie Jones
Album:Place I Have Never been
Label:Cheeky Monkey
Website: http://www.rosiejones.org
"Tennesse", the third song on this album, provides the context. It's an ode to the frustration of being a songwriter, do you really have to be a crack addict, sleeping in dumpsters, wandering the highways of small state America in order to be an inspired wordsmith? Simply asking the question gives Rosie Jones space to breathe. That she answers it ten times on this album. There are different types of journey to cover and perhaps the one that covers distant can be the least interesting. Rosie has found a diverson or two on life's path. Definitely one to keep an eye on. Sheer poetry.
Sweet! x
January 7th 2008- Happy New Year
Happy new year!! At least I hope it will be :)
I had an excellent Christmas. Except I think I ate and drank twice my body weight and now I have to detox. I went to the supermarket today and bought lots of vegetables and things and tomorrow I will attempt to make lasagne for my whole flat except I have never made or indeed even properly eaten lasagne before. I guess I have to google that.
Life is pretty good right now, I took a massive break from playing over the holidays and didn't even take my guitar home with me. I just turned into a massive slob and got addicted to playing Zelda on my brothers DS (I want one!!) However, now I'm back in Liverpool and playing my guitar again today felt so good. I am doing open mic tomorrow I think... I'm working on a really weird acoustic version of Chelsea Hotel no.2 (why is there no hash key on my keyboard???) but I don't know if it's ready yet.
Also I got the High School Musical box set for christmas and I now want to change direction and become a Disney star.
That is all for now.
Music: Emmy the Great, KT Tunstall
October 14th - Liverpool
So I have been here for about 6 weeks now... living the student life. Too many late nights. Too much alcohol and definitely far too much daytime tv. I haven't gigged in forever... it's making me itch. I need to get motivated but when I'm not at school all I seem to do is curl up and watch DVDs. Gigs have been the highlight. Liverpool gigs are the best ever. A couple of weeks ago we went to see The Go! Team and Operator Please at Liverpool uni and it was all kinds of awesome... we watched Operator Please in a room with about 15 other people, but we danced like it was the end of the world and everyone was on acid. or something. We got mentioned in the NME review... "boozed up academics" I think was the term they used. And of course that is us... as we were the only ones dancing. But we didn't care.
Straylight Run/Motion City Soundtrack. Another classic gig. I bumped into John Nolan going into the men's toilets... I giggled. I don't know why. I guess the Southern Comfort encouraged it. The journey home from Manchester was pretty epic. We got a coach to the middle of nowhere, sat at the baqk and chatted to an italian man forever about nothing. We got dropped off... waited in the rain for 10 minutes until a minibus pulled up. "Are you going to Liverpool?" ..."sure". We get into this dodgy, cramped, sweaty bus driven by a fat man with long hair and a perfectly round bald patch. He dropped people off at all this obscure places he didn't know how to get to. Or how to work his sat nav. It took us 2 hours to get back to Liverpool...
Nizlopi. The Barfly. What a band, seriously. What a magical night. Luke and JP came into the crowd and sang Helen acoustic for me. Luke kissed me. I sang on stage with them. crazy. kind of like a dream. I fell asleep grinning from ear to ear and rang my mum immediately the next day.
Shy Child at Korova. What a fucking mental night. I won't even begin. 2 days later I am still hungover.
Laura and I are going to see Rufus Wainwright next Wednesday at the Philharmonic... it's going to be so amazing. That man makes me cry with happiness and sadness at the same time. Then on Friday good old KT Tunstall. Who will be brilliant, as always. I'm sure. Emma and I are also going to check out Eugene Mcguinness at Korova on the 20th because he's been awesome the couple times I've seen him and he went to LIPA. Must support.
Basically, I love living here. so fucking much.
Rosie.
Music: Jenny Owen Youngs, Emmy the Great, Rufus Wainwright.
August 30th - More CDs available...
Alright my lovelies,
Since my last blog (it's been a busy summer) my album sold out... but now I have more copies! The artwork has been fixed a bit and a couple of thank yous and typos have been added and fixed respectively. So if you want one give me a shout. There should be a paypal link on my website very very very soon (like tomorrow). The CD will be £8.50 including P&P. The proceeds will get me through the first year of university, hopefully! And there's an extra special secret (well I guess...not so secret anymore) bonus track. Anymore incentive needed? Um... I will send you as many Rosie Jones badges as you want (within reason) FOR FREE and sign it for you if you want.
Anyway. I'm moving to Liverpool on Tuesday and so far my packing has consisted of me turning my room upside down and now everything is on the floor in a big big big mess and I haven't actually packed anything or decided what I have to take. I keep finding things like old diaries that keep me entertained and distracted for hours. Then I have a nap or watch Gilmore Girls. Then I drink some coffee and mess up my room some more. It's a vicious circle! I also just found out David Ford is playing a secret tiny gig in Liverpool on the 3rd September which I am so bummed about because I move up the day after. But it's okay because I'm seeing Regina Spektor the day I move up and Tilly and the Wall the day after!! What a way to say hello to the North eh!
I have to go now because Green Day has just come up on my iTunes and I have to skip it before it comes up on my Last FM, eek!
Love and stuff,
Rosie xxx
Music: Tegan and Sara - The Con
June 9th - CDs and stuff
Just so you know, I only have about 10 copies of the album or something left, so if you want one then email me asap. Thanks :) I don't know how long it will be before I get more made.
Rooosie <3
Ps. Check out Kate Walsh, she's adorable. If you like Lisa Loeb (which you should providing you have ears) then you'll love her. Clicky Click for Myspaz
Music: Kate Walsh, Amplifico
April 2nd - Album!
Yay, the album is out! You can get it from Solo or Discovery in Barnstaple or cheekymonkeyrecords.com or directly from me (email me) if you want it signed or you want badges or anything and I'll make it happen.
Gigs coming up, including support slots for Frank Turner and Jez Lowe, woop woop!
Music: Jessica Harp
March 26th - Album, March 30th!
Just a quick note to say the album drops this friday!
Check out www.cheekymonkeyrecords.com for details. Also if you can get to the launch on Friday at The Inn On the Square in Barnstaple, then I can give you an invite and come along!
I was also on BBC Radio Devon last friday and I believe it's still on Listen Again.
Anyway must run to do my media essay.
Exciting things to come. :)
Music: Snow Patrol
February 21st - The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire...
That title has nothing to do with this post, I just have it running over in my head.
Finished recording yesterday! Done, all done. Alllll done. Except mixing, mastering, artwork blaaah blah blah. But I don't get to play anymore.. how sad. Kind of. I want to hear it now...fast forward in time and just have shiny CDs that I can stroke. But not in a creepy way..
Oh and I guess I haven't mentioned this here but I got into the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts..which is rad, so I'm moving to Liverpool in September! How exciting.
Anyway that's all I have to say really, because I have a stupid essay to write and it's taken me, like, a week to write 600 words and it has to be about a million. NO KIDDING.
peace out x (peace out? moron)
(ps Misty is scratching on my door to get out and I want to let her because she'll probably pee all over my floor if I don't but it's really cute hehe)
(pps Misty is a cat... just..to make that clear)
Music: Tilly and the Wall
December 26th - Happy Holidays!
Hope you all had a great few days. I got drunk and fell into a sugar coma watching Dylan Moran and I have new legwarmers. And a Tamagotchi. And a Cat Power CD which I love with all my heart. And lots of bath-y shower-y smelly things but none of them are tested on animals so I can still sleep at night.
I also have a new Tegan and Sara hoody and it's fleecy inside and I can curl up in it and my legwarmers and listen to Cat Power in big headphones and pretend I'm not me and it's not cold outside and I don't have a mountain of work to do in no time at all.
I'd like to write a song..or do something..but..I'm too tired to sort of..move? It's like I've used my energy quota for 2006 and I have to wait until 2007 to re-fuel.
I'm going to watch Homecoming, because I keep remembering how hilarious SlayerFest '98 is.. major points to anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
Have a great rest of 2006, everyone!
Rosie xx
Music: Cat Power
December 2nd - Helloooo
Hello my little virtual friends...
So I've signed a record contract. Well, my father actual did the signing part, on account of me not being of legal age and all that. This whole not being 18 thing is really starting to become a nuisance, especially as it's so close, yet so far… That reminds me, I'm having a party, January 26th, my birthday. I think it's going to be in a barn, somewhere. You're all invited, naturally. Well.. most of you. Sometimes I don't view the profiles of all the people I add, is that bad? I feel like I have less and less time these days, to do anything, really. I love winter, I love snuggling up in toe socks by the fire, eating chestnuts and watching Grey's Anatomy and thinking about all things Christmas… but it is slightly depressing that I don't get to see my village in daylight hours anymore. It makes me sleepy, I get home at 6oclock and I just want to curl up for a week. I envy my cat. Speaking of.. he brought a rabbit in last night. It was weird, I think he was giving himself an anatomy lesson because he'd laid out all its organs in a line on the bathroom floor, which, despite being absolutely disgusting, was quite cute, in a way. Maybe he has OCD?
Anyway, what the hell was I talking about? Oh, yes! A record contract. It's with a label called CMR, run by music technology students at my college. We're going to make an album and it's going to be epic. I have to start thinking of songs..and titles.. and artwork, and a video…and tie them all together in one big bundle of album joy. I can't wait to add things to my little songs… I must find a trumpet player.. I have a girl producing my record, her name is Lauren. Rachel will be playing bass too, so it's going to be a bad-ass chick record and I love that about it. Brings it all back to Girl Power, those five girls, that made me want to do this in the very beginning.
This post was meant to be informative and snappy but somehow it's turned into a sea of babbling..maybe because it's late and I should really go to bed. I had a gig tonight. I hung out with my mum and we gave each other high fives and listened to The Wreckers all the way home and it was nice. I know I shouldn't use that word, it's such a terrible adjective but it really was nice.
I'm making badges for KT Tunstall tomorrow morning, must sleep.. I'm sleeping in a sleeping bag, with a duvet, and a blanket, and I'm listening to Harry Potter, not read by Stephen Fry, but by some imposter of the audio-book world. Still…it soothes me.
I will try to write in this thing again, one of these days,
Rosie xx
Music: Ryan Adams, Regina Spektor, the Hanson christmas album (yes, it's that time of year already).