Addiction. Alcoholism. Sanctuary. 🙂
Simples?!
Addiction. Alcoholism. Sanctuary. 🙂
Simples?!
Development of a new series on addiction!
She’s an acoustic singer I saw back in January just after she’s been hailed a top pick for 2009 by the guardian. The gig was tiny, intimate, but still bloody amazing.
A month on she was playing to around 150 people at the Barfly in Camden, London when I saw her next. Last night I saw that her new single had been put on Virgin Tv’s music on demand playlist and went bloody mental! She did it!
I’m going to see her again in March I think, she’s supporting James Morrisson, so I’m planning on going just to see her! Woooo!
Read the review I wrote about her January gig!:
http://www.music-zine.com/reviews/?id=648
Sunday 18th January 2009
KARIMA FRANCIS @ CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION
w/ Gema Hadridge
I was really impressed with the stuff that I had heard from Karima before the gig and the day before she had been named as The Guardians hot pick for 2009 as a part of the observer music monthly which was pretty cool. I was convinced that the gig was going to be a monumental one, and that it was!
This was the first time in a long time that I was expecting a large crowd to be queued outside the junction but I was shocked to find out that there had been poor ticket sales so the gig was going to be very intimate. I think there was only about 30 of us there. Not many but still an audience nonetheless. The people that were there varied in age. People there ranged from OAP to middle aged to teens!
The support act was impressive. Gema Hadridge wowed the crowd with a few enchanting melodies. I thought it was really touching to see her father join her onstage for a few songs too, it was clear that they had a strong bond! She also took some time to explain the meanings of the songs she sang instead of leaving them to be subjective as most musicians would. Her songs had a strong sense of realism to them that I’m sure will take her far in the industry. I found that I could relate to most of the things she sang out easily being of a similar age to her. Her dynamic is one that is simple but beautiful. There was a relaxed mood to her whole set and was also joined by her sister onstage for a final song! She deserves to have an EP out soon because she has an amazing vocal talent and is just brilliant!
Karima Francis soon followed and stunned the crowd further! She straight away reminded me of an Adele/ Tracey Chapman crossover. Her uplifting melodies and charming lyrics addressed some of the more serious issues that she faced while she was growing up. Her songs are from the heart and it was something that I admire greatly about her. The type of music she produces is the kind that you would welcome after a long day at work, or even after a brilliant night out. I can guarantee that you’ll want to listen to her all over “again” (no pun intended).
Her single “again” is released on the 6th of March so I URGE you to go and buy or download it because she’s an inspiration to anybody! I was completely blown away by her vocal ability and her range. I’d never experienced anything like it live so the hair on my arms stood on end for most of the evening! One other thing that was brilliant about her was the fact that she was not at all bothered by the amount of people in the audience. She seemed genuinely happy to be playing. A true musician!
She also did a cover of Kings Of Leon’s “Use Somebody” that was pure magic. It captivated the heart and soul of everybody in the room. Her powerful and moving voice had completely taken me in that I was unconscious of everybody else in the room.
Overall I would say that her performance was amazing. I would definitely recommend you go and see her because she is sure to make it big in the industry very soon! She has the right attitude and an amazing appeal that is bound to take her far!
By Carleanne Gwen O’Donoghue
Today started off fairly nicely. I had a text waiting from Laurence that was really lovely and it had me smiling for a while. (god I miss him so much!) and then I had a cool walk into college followed by a quick stop at starbucks to grab a strawberry frappachino and a banana nut muffin!
When I eventually got into photography we got our exam papers and I read the theme and was amazed at how closely it related to the last project. I got all excited, confident and keen and managed to brainstorm a tonne of ideas and even wrote a little story to explain what I thought on the theme! Have a read of this I wrote it about a year ago. It sucks, but it was true at the time and I’ve used it in my new project..
My Sanctuary.
It’s a place where I’m always welcome. The doors are never closed and it’s comforting just to have a place like that, despite its location. It’s a room where you’re greeted with open arms. It’s only a small room; there isn’t really a lot to it apart from a few damaged chairs. But the personalities that it contains, the people you can relate to, everything about this whole room is amazing. It’s special. Other people, just like you, sat around talking, making music, some crying. These people are my people.There’s usually a man who sits by the window- just staring down onto the busy streets below us. He’s a scruffy man. All I have ever seen him wear is a long brown duffel coat with a pair of dusty brown leather shoes, hair a mess, with a hat placed on top to finish. He reminds me of something from an old movie. The man isn’t an enigma because everything else is the room is quite jolly, colourful and happy in contrast to his aged sepia toned look. Maybe he is the ghost of an old movie after all?
The other people in the room carry on, not even noticing you’re there. Each of them enthralled in their thoughts. Just alone, thinking. You notice that for a room full of thinkers it’s awfully loud. Voices echo around the room. Laughter bounces off the walls like a ball confined in a box. Then you look around and up to the ceiling. There isn’t one, just the clear blue sky above you. Not a cloud in sight. Nothing could go wrong. After all, you are in heaven.
Then somebody knocks on the door. Where is everybody?
It’s a bit rubbish reading it back, but I changed a few bits of it in my sketchbook.
So anyway- today is PANCAKE DAY! (another excuse to eat unhealthily and become obese). Me and my brother were like one big pancake producing machine, it was TOO funny. Only my brother could flip a pancake and end up flipping it onto the side BEHIND him.
I thought I’d find a list of things you can put on them for all you losers that aren’t very imaginative.
“The classic: Fine crepes with lemon and sugar
The detox: Mixed berry pancakes
The boozer: Spiced apple pancakes with calvados sabayon
The continental: Cinnamon pancakes with praline cream and chocolate sauce
The romantic: Lacy crepes with rose-water butter
The kid’s favourite: Banana and ricotta pancakes with maple-pecan sauce
For Chinese New Year: Chinese roast pork with pancakes
The seasonal: Baked rhubarb
The dinner party "pancakes": Sweetcorn blinis with aubergine and tomato
The wheat-free option: Red onion and rosemary farinate
The Scandinavian: Warm potato pancakes with smoked eel”
Click here to go to thetimesonline.co.uk for more!
For now! 🙂
Not goodbye to you, goodbye to Laurence.
Today was the last time I will see him for a whole five months. I’m not sure how I’m going to cope because I’m so used to spending time with him or having him on the other end of a phone that it’s becoming all a bit … incomprehendable that I won’t be able to do that anymore. Our goodbye wasn’t an amazing one because we both wanted it to be over quickly, personally I don’t think that it made it any easier, but for his peace of mind I did it anyway. This morning we both had a good cry together when we got back from our little walk to school and back. It was a bit horrible really because I wasn’t just crying because he was going away. Things had happened at the weekend with me and him and they were a little upsetting- I haven’t really been the same since, which must be horrible for him because of the timing, but I really can’t help it.
I did really rubbish on my World War One factual test this afternoon too. I got 42% or something patetic like that. It was better than the score I’d convinced myself I was gonna get , but still. Fail. I should also be writing an English essay right about now, but I’m just not in the right place at all. I hate this. Already. I want to cry and scream and then sleep, but what good will that do?
I have such a headache…
I think the biggest thing on the news at the minute (entertainment news!) is the oscars. As you all probably know, allota celebs got all glammed up last night to go and sit in hope that the public love them lots so they could win a small golden statue at the Kodak Theatre in LA.. I was expecting the Americans to just fix the whole thing so that they would win all the awards, but it seems that this was not the case last night!
The big winners last night were:
Best film- Slumdog Millionaire
Best actor- Sean Penn
Best actress- Kate Winslet
Best supporting- actor Heath Ledger
Best supporting- actress Penelope Cruz
Best director- Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
I really should go and write this essay now shouldn’t I.
I miss him SOOOOOO much!!
Ohhhh by the way- amazing photographer, Rosie Hardy. Her partner lives in America, she lives in Manchester (well Buxton). And she’s a year older than I am. I’m going to be using her as my inspiration for the next 5 months because I really don’t know how she does it.
Read this, they’re amazing people.
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/you/blogaddicts/view/20080804-152588/A-modern-day-Flickr-fairy-tale
🙂
I’m having another good day today! I had a lie in.. Went into town looking and feeling damn fine for once and brought myself a lovely little belt for a fiver! I think the only slight downers of the day were the fact that while I was in new look I saw a missing poster for a little girl I recognised from school. I think it’s so sad when things like that happen to people in your community. Makes you wonder about what happened to her and makes you realise just how dangerous the world really is. Even bad things can happen in Welwyn Garden City!. Oh and the day went really slowly, I’m still waiting on Laurence. I think we’re gonna go out for an Indian tonight. After last night I just want to waste the little money I have on him and show him how much I love him!
Flashing about cash is definitely the wrong way to go about it, but I like treating him :). He’s worth it!
I’ve been totally loving my shutter shades today! Check me out! =D
It’s for things like these that you just wanna thank good ole Kanye for! Now I must admit I’m a bit of an indie cindy when it comes to music.. But I am partial to a BIT of Kanye when I’m feeling good! I should have gone to see him at Wembley really when I had the chance!
Erm yeah, so as far as news goes… not alot happening.. don’t really care.. Though I did find this..
http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/tv/galleries/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=14124322>1=61503
Anyway, Laurence should be here within the next 5 minutes so I should go find something to wear. I have butterflies and I have no idea why… This isn’t good surely… Ahhh, I don’t care, too happy. I’m going to have an amazing evening with my man!
I might add to this later 😉
Big love!
Okay so I’m going to warn you in advanced to stop reading if you’re in a good mood. I’m not. I feel like I’ve just had my heart torn out of my chest and then shoved back in, and had the wound kissed better. My eyes sting and my head hurts.
I should start at the beginning I suppose..
Today I went on a massive shopping trip with my mum, aunt, brother, sister and my two amazing cousins. We raided most of the shops in Harlow and I ended up spending about £50 in primark alone. (seriously the place is brilliant.. I got kanye glasses for the skins party in April :D)
Shopping today I brought ..
3 t-shirts
2 pairs of jeans
2 checked shirts
1 pair of shoes
1 bag
8 pairs of socks
1 pair of pink Kanye style glasses for the skins party
All for a total of £85 haha!
Anyway, that was all cool and I went round to see some other family members when I got home because I like to keep close and up-to-date with everything that’s going on and stuff… but then things just seemed to start going a bit wrong. I couldn’t get hold of Laurence. I wanted a cuddle. I wanted a kiss. You know the normal kind of stuff you’d want from your other half after a relatively long day. and plus it’s Thursday, we normally see eachother and sit and watch Hustle and then Skins together.
So yeah I was just going mad and feelig more and more like I wanted to scream. Then he called and things got worse.. and worse… and worse… but now things are okay I guess. Somethings are still a bit jumbled up in my head about him going away but I’m sure my questions will answer themselves sooner or later.
I’m worrying too much about this I know.
If your boyfriend was going away for 5 months would you be worried that he’d come back and not love you anymore or am I just being silly; because love’s supposed to be unconditional right?
(By the way… Katherine Kiss Me- Franz Ferdinand off the album Tonight.. I LOVE IT.)
SKINS THIS WEEK!
I won’t tell you all what happened because I missed the first half and Hustle! But I will put up the soundtrack from the episodes so you people can be in the know and be all cool and stuff 😀
So here it is…
The Early Years – A Little More
Fat Segal – Sexxbombz Theme Tune
Timothy Victor – Juicing Down
Fat Segal – Tension Music
The Clash – Bankrobber – Sony BMG
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile – Universal
Phosphorescent – At Death A Proclamation – Secretly Canadian
Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Sparklehorse – It’s A Wonderful Life
Carla Bruni – Le Ciel Dans Une Chambre – Naïve
Notwist – This Room – City Slang
Electrelane – Gone Under The Sea
Devendra Banhart – Now That I Know
Fat Segal As Yet Untitled Freddie Being Sick Ambient Composition
Stephen Fretwell – Darlin’ Don’t
Phosphorescent – I Am A Fully Grown Man (And I Will Lay Down in the Grass)
Fat Segal – Rim Licking – 1st song
Timothy Victor – Ass2Ass
David Holmes – Love Reign Over Me
I apologise for the rant nearer the beginning of this … and for my comment on Jade Goody; I have nothing against her really or the fact that she has cancer, nor am I glad of this. Nor am in any way glad that it’s spread, that she has lost all her hair or that she’s been told she’s going to die soon; I just don’t think it’s right that it should have been publicised.
soon my lovlies!
Today has been far more laid back and chilled out as opposed tp the last 3, I don’t really like it much. While I was laying in bed this morning I found myself longing to be back in London. I’m not sure whether it’s because I want to be around Laurence more, whether I just love the place or whether I just hate Welwyn.
It’s not just Welwyn that’s boring the hell out of me lately. It’s the news too.. Inflation falls and Jade Goody is set to marry at the weekend after being told that she has “months” to live. Oh and then there’s the boy that became a father at the tender old age of 13. I mean what the actual f**k is the world coming to?! Honestly, it’s enough to make you want to committ suicide really.
I’m flicking thru the news pages now and I’ve just seen the best article ever. “worst chat up lines”. Lets have a giggle shall we..
1. Your name must be Daisy, because I have the incredible urge to plant you right here!
2. Roses are red, violets are blue, I like spaghetti, let’s go fuck.
3. Your body’s name must be Visa, because it’s everywhere I want to be.
4. Can I buy you a drink, or do you just want the money?
5. I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make your bed rock.
6. I may not be the best looking guy here, but I’m the only one talking to you.
7. That shirt looks very becoming on you, but if I were on you I’d be coming, too.
8. I’d like to screw your brains out, but it appears that someone beat me to it.
9. If you were a new hamburger at McDonald’s, you would be McGorgeous.
10. I’m a bird watcher and I’m looking for a Big-Breasted Bed Thrasher, have you seen one?
11. Wanna play house? You be the front door and I’ll bang you all night long.
12. If you’re going to regret this in the morning, we can sleep until the afternoon.
13. Oh, I’m sorry, I thought that was a Braille nametag.
14. If you were a car, I would wax you and ride you all over town.
15. Excuse me, do you wanna fuck, or should I apologize.
16. You might not be the best looking girl here, but beauty is only a light switch away.
17. Hi, I’m a necrophiliac, how good are you at playing dead?
18. You must be Jamaican, because Jamaican me crazy.
19. You be the tree, and I’ll wrap you like a Koala.
20. Hi my name is _______. Remember it, cause you’ll be screaming it all night long.
21. I can’t find my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap B&B.
22. Want to play conductor? You be the engineer and I’ll go choo choo.
23. You must be Jelly, cause jam don’t shake like that.
24. The fact that I’m missing my teeth just means that there’s more room for your tongue.
25. Hi, my name is Pogo, want to jump on my stick?
I don’t think there’s one line on that list that isn’t about fucking.. Disgraceful.
I haven’t ACTUALLY done much today now I come to think about it. I uploaded some photos onto my DeviantArt account because I was in dire need of an update and all that jazz.. Take a look if you really wanna!
Click Here To go To My DeviantArt Gallery
I should go now before I rant some more about Jade Goody and her efforts for sympathy (see, I’m a bitch.)
More tomorrow!
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