Friday 24 May 2013



I LOVE NaNoWriMo, the movement that challenges anyone to write 50,000 words in a month... for fun!
So I was delighted to be interviewed by them. Here I am talking about mixing babies with book deadlines

http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/51231553389/i-published-my-nano-novel-ally-kennen-on-revision-and




Thursday 16 May 2013

Past lives...music

All right. Very rarely I am asked EXACTLY what singing and songwriting I mention in my BIOG. (And NO I will not sing at your book event unless you provide an 11 piece band, thank you very much) (though I did sing a Pentangle folk song at a book festival in Sardinia once, but was under EXTREME pressure, so it served them right)
SO here is a selection.






Epiphany  (above)  is a track I wrote and recorded with Dan Brown http://danbrownmusic.co.uk/ a few years ago..


Here'sn a track I recorded for band Elevator Suite, a cover of Idris Muhammad's 'I Feel Music'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GCcnkjd_E


I co-wrote a song with Dance band Way Out West about a hundred years ago. Here is the mix I like best (bit sad and gloomy mind)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grql-7AkKEU




HARD HOUSE
Ha ha ha!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdNW7W3k7g

I never knew this existed. It's a version of the song 'Silence' by the excellent Sarah McLachlan. In my 20's I did a number of singing sessions for international DJ Steve Hill, recording songs like this for a session fee, with the brief to try and make them sound as much like the original as possible, which were then turned into banging hard house and trance mixes(!) (most of them I never knew about) I've started to track some of them down. Goodness me! I'm not on the credits, but it is me warbling away. Anyway, this track is rather good fun (said in Jolly Aunty Voice)

Might post some more tracks here at a later date WATCH OUT!