Song of the Week
Friday 30 January 2015 LyricsSong of the Week
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
My brother is getting married this week, and I’m playing in the evening reception. My favourite song of the set has to be Wanna Dance With Somebody - it has been in my head all week and is one of the most infectiously happy songs of all time! Maybe my husband will even dance...
My brother is getting married this week, and I’m playing in the evening reception. My favourite song of the set has to be Wanna Dance With Somebody - it has been in my head all week and is one of the most infectiously happy songs of all time! Maybe my husband will even dance...
The English Way
Tuesday 27 January 2015
This weekend I travelled back in time.
We went to stay with friends who we know through our work in the Philippines. They live in a beautiful old manor house along the River Stour, which quite literally encompasses every vision I have ever had of a ‘dream house’...
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Song of the Week
Saturday 24 January 2015 LyricsSong of the Week
Ancora Qui - Elisa Toffolli and Ennio Morricone
This is an incredibly powerful song from one of my favourite films, Django Unchained. Elisa’s raw, dark voice sings us through one of the most heart-stirring scenes of Tarantino’s tragic, romantic, yet comic, masterpiece.
This is an incredibly powerful song from one of my favourite films, Django Unchained. Elisa’s raw, dark voice sings us through one of the most heart-stirring scenes of Tarantino’s tragic, romantic, yet comic, masterpiece.
Six
Tuesday 20 January 2015
Last week, we celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary. While this might make us still marriage-babies in comparison to some couples we know, I think that six years is pretty good going. And it keeps getting better!
I believe in marriage. It’s one of the things that I truly am passionate about...
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Lyrics - Layers
Thursday 15 January 2015 LyricsLyrics
I am layers, I am ever crossing lines,
A confusion, never black, never white.
I am spirals leading each other round and through and on,
To the core, where perhaps there should be more....
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A confusion, never black, never white.
I am spirals leading each other round and through and on,
To the core, where perhaps there should be more....
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Song of the Week
Tuesday 13 January 2015 LyricsSong of the Week
Lost and Found - Lianne La Havas
This whole album is beautifully moving, witty and soulful. Lost and Found is a deep, chilling song but with such a warm semblance that it catches me off guard every time. Lianne shows off her stunning slow vibrato, which I am trying ferociously to emulate! www.liannelahavas.com
This whole album is beautifully moving, witty and soulful. Lost and Found is a deep, chilling song but with such a warm semblance that it catches me off guard every time. Lianne shows off her stunning slow vibrato, which I am trying ferociously to emulate! www.liannelahavas.com
Who's Got The Magic?
Saturday 10 January 2015
Last month, I taught a songwriting master-class at a school in Hong Kong. I’ve always loved teaching, and my work in the Philippines with the choir has given me lots of face-time in front of kids who want to learn.
But I have never actually taught song-writing before. And it got me thinking, “How can I teach something that is such a mystery to me?”...
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Lyrics - The Promised Land
Wednesday 07 January 2015 LyricsLyrics
For many years, and their turning moons,
I knew there was a place.
A place of rest, of feasting joys,
And productivity...
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I knew there was a place.
A place of rest, of feasting joys,
And productivity...
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Song of the Week
Monday 05 January 2015 LyricsSong of the Week
If I Could Change Your Mind - Haim
Este, Danielle and Alana’s fun, sunny tune is keeping me warm while it’s -9c in Poland! www.haimtheband.com
Este, Danielle and Alana’s fun, sunny tune is keeping me warm while it’s -9c in Poland! www.haimtheband.com
Resolve
Thursday 01 January 2015
It’s New Year’s Eve. A time to look back on the year, and one to look forward to all that’s to come in 2015. I have been quietly and deliberately setting myself my resolutions; and oh yes, they’re good ones. But as I set them, there’s a twinge of sadness in me, knowing that I in all likelihood will not live up to these shiny new standards that I am inaugurating. ..
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