I have been pretty terrible in recent weeks at keeping up with my Sunday Rundown blog posts, so this will be a three week catch up post, without the usual day by day format! As so much time has gone by, I thought it best to just outline the most interesting things that have happened!
At the time of my last blog post, I had just boarded my cruise and I was on my way to the Caribbean! I did make it there, to both Roatan in Honduras and Harvest Caye in Belize and they were both beautiful!
However, our cruise then got caught in the path of Hurricane Irma, so we had to head back to Miami two days early to get off the ship and go to Orlando. It was such a shame as I was having an amazing time and had met some great people, but it was the safest option at the time!
After we got off the cruise, we went to the house in Orlando but didn’t feel safe staying there as we’d never experienced a storm like that before in the UK. We checked into one of the Universal hotels and were basically trapped inside for two days on Sunday and Monday, but before the storm hit we went in the theme parks on the Saturday. That was so fun as they were so empty that we literally walked straight onto every ride! After the hurricane, we went back to the house and had one final day in the sun before we flew home! I even made a little turtle friend!
When I got home it was my birthday! I turned 24 and had all my friends come out to celebrate and it was a great night! I also started college for music production, which should be a great thing moving forward as I will have more flexibility in creating new music!
The final thing I want to mention is my performance on Tuesday! I was performing during the University of Salford’s Freshers’ Week at an event for the Eco Africa society. It was a great night with tonnes of other talented artists who were also performing. My friend, Geena, was there and she took some videos of my performance, including one of ‘Solo’. Solo is my favourite track from my upcoming album, and although it won’t be out for months, I do gig the track a lot, so check out the video and come down to a gig if you like the vibe!
Thank you for reading and catching up on all I’ve been doing. I promise I’ll be back to normal with the blog posts again next week, it’s just been a manic time!
This week has been super busy music-wise, which is always great, with the main news being that I performed at my first ever gig in London on Friday! 🙂 I’ve also been keeping my new Spotify playlist up to date, booking more gigs and been working on the track I am self-producing… Here is my day by day account of this fab week (15th April to 21st April)
MONDAY: I guess Monday was a fairly boring start to the week as it was admin based mainly… however, I did get closer to finding out where and when the video for Poison is going to premiere, which is very exciting news! Hopefully on next week’s Sunday Rundown I will be recapping about that! 🙂
TUESDAY: I was at college and actually the only student in! That sounds boring but it was amazing for my productivity and I got sooooo much done! The main progress was made on ‘Alive’, the track I was talking about last week. I think the arrangement has been fully worked out now and we added some amazing rhythmic guitar to the choruses, which I feel added so much to the vibe of the track! Next things to do are record my lead vocal, harmonies and backing vocals and then look at transitions! So excited to share this when it’s finally finished!
WEDNESDAY: This week I’ve had no voice at all so I couldn’t record a new video for my Wednesday Cover but I did edit some live footage from my Gullivers Gig last Saturday… so this week’s cover is ‘Into You’ by Ariana Grande! I absolutely love this song and love performing our version with the loop pedal… so check it out and let me know what you think!
THURSDAY: On Thursday I picked my set lists for my upcoming gigs, sorted out all my backing tracks and packed for my trip to London. Thursday is also the day I update my weekly Spotify playlist ‘Thursday Twenty’ and this week I added some amazing tracks!
https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/11155725702/playlist/3fsHErchu1TvOs4URkHZWu
FRIDAY: Definitely the most eventful day of this week as I had my first ever gig in London at Proud Camden as part of Absent Kelly’s ‘Camden Clique’. I was the first support for London-based band arC and was also joined by Bisola, Gabriela Eva and Samuel Hyde. I was incredibly nervous before as it was the first time I’d performed some of those tracks live with just backing tracks and I also had a really sore throat! All in all though, it was a really valuable experience and I felt like I learned a lot from it. I had some great support from the crowd, despite being first on, and I got to meet and watch some great musicians! Afterwards I had such a feeling of relief too as I’ve been anxious about it for a while, so it was awesome to let loose and party 🙂
SATURDAY: I was feeling slightly fragile from the night before but still took the opportunity to go and explore Camden Markets and Piccadilly Circus in London. Felt good to be out and about and to be spending time with my brother and his friends. London is such a good place to be a tourist and I think Camden is now my favourite place I have visited there, although I love Shoreditch too!
SUNDAY: Another admin day as I had to write a press release for my EP (although it is a little bit late) ready for the premiere of the Poison video! I am on a bit of a health kick at the moment as I feel like I’ve let myself get very unfit and have developed some bad habits, so I did go for a hike near my house. It was really nice to get some fresh air and just be able to relax whilst listening to music. Plus I saw these horses, who were just too cute not to share!
Thank you so much for reading – even though it has been even longer than last week! I don’t want to make any more false promises, but hopefully I will have a little bit less to say next week! 🙂
2017 marks the release of my new EP, Experiments, so I am aiming to be gigging as much as possible! I’ll be doing acoustic cover gigs as well as original gigs with my guitarist, so there is plenty of choice!
I hope to see some friendly faces at all the gigs and check out my Facebook page for details of open mics and radio appearances!
With my upcoming single release in November, followed by the EP release in early 2017, I am hoping to promote my new material as much as possible by playing it live! I have a few live shows booked for the upcoming months and I will also be playing as many open mics as possible, which I will post about on my Facebook Page.
If you want to catch me performing a live acoustic set, you can catch me at these venues on the following dates:
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