Hay Everybody!!! Hows it all going? Have you done your xmas shopping yet?! i certainly haven't!! EEK! But there's always those last minute sales.....
Anyway lets catch up on the last week. Since we last spoke i've been very busy writing for this new project that my boyfriend Jake and I have started. I cant divulge too much information because were keeping it under wraps!! But I can say that these boys are FAR SUPERIOR to JLS!!!! Our boys could absolutely walk all over them they're that good!! He He!!
As well as that Ive just returned from a gig in Butlins this weekend!! Butlins!! Ive never been so it was an experience and a half but i can say that everyone was lovely and the audience was superb. I played in this big packed out arena there with my guitarist Randall and my drummer Craig and it was fab, we did a half hour set and also included a cover of Times Like These by The Foo Fighters which you can actually hear on the myspace player if you fancy a gander at it. I also spent Saturday with a good friend of mine in this lovely spa called Cedar Falls, we had massages and facials and I had a pedicure for the first time in my life! They use this funny exfoliating thing on the soles of your feet and my friend and I were in stitches the whole time cos it TICKLES!!! So all and all a great weekend.
Listen guys it was my Great Auntie Jessie's 100TH BIRTHDAY on Saturday so a big shout out to Auntie Jessie she lives in Banff and shes a fantastic old bird!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE JESSIE!! WOO HOO!!! 100 YEARS OLD!!
So must get on with things now or else i'll be here all day yapping, I hope your all enjoying my Malawi Journal as its really important to me that you take the time to read it. Since being in Malawi I have been in touch with McCartneys people about building a Performing Arts School there so fingers crossed the response is a good one!!
Lots of love peeps schmoo schmoo x x x x x x x x x x
Hay you guys...hows it going? How are we all doing with the credit crunch?! Funny times huh!! Well i've been very poorly these last few days. Started being violently ill on Friday night.....sitting on toilet with head in bathtub...you get the picture!! To be honest im only just starting to recover from it, just lying in bed right now watching Ice Age 2! So anyway i want to tell you this story that my mum just told me tonight. My mum was driving back from a friends house last night along a country road not far from the town of Montrose in Scotland and she came across a deer sat with its little legs curled up on the side of the road. She got out to see what had happened to it and it became quite apparent that someone had hit it with their car and left it there to die. My mum immediately called the vet. When the vet arrived he said both her front legs were broken and she was sure to die so the kindest thing to do for her would be to put her to sleep. My mum noticed two bleeding holes on the top of her head and couldn't understand what they were. The vet explained that the person who hit this poor little animal had ripped of its antlers and taken them!!! Can you believe that!! Some sick F**king Bas**rd hit that poor animal, left it to die and then RIPPED of its antlers as a souvenir!! Well all I can say is whoever you are you Sick twisted person I hope you rot in Hell!!! and I sincerely mean that!! i cant believe that anyone in this world could be that cruel......and if anyone lives in the area who has heard anything about this incident which occured lastnight on the Montrose road please please let me know because this person should be imprisoned for cruelty to animals. Sorry folks for the language but when I hear of things like this it makes my blood boil!! Anyway the poor little deer was put to sleep on the side of the road wrapped up in my dogs blanket, she had a dignified exit in the end. Somehow I believe that karma comes back around and I know that this cruel evil person will pay the price for this one day. Right thats me, i've said my piece.
So, played a gig the other day in Paisley which was great, loved the crowd and got to give them my first ever rendition of Caledonia which I can now proudly announce that I will be releasing on an Ep along with lots of other Scottish greats, the EP will only be available on the homecoming tour so if y'all want a copy you gotta buy yourself a ticket for the tour!! The Paisley gig was great and i was really chuffed to be playing alongside Leon Jackson cos I actually think he's a real talent and a bit fit as well girls!! Ha ha...i'm otherwise engaged of course so thats a no go area for me!! But if I wasn't with someone!! He He....nuff said..im gonna get myself into trouble here!!
So listen my lovelies....hope your all coping well with the xmas credit c runch!!
Hay peeps. I just want to say how delighted I am that Obama has become the 44th president of the United States!
I sat up last night til 4.30am and witnessed possibly one of the most historical moments of my lifetime. I hope and pray his actions speak as loud as his words.
The world needs change and Obama is only the beginning. Welldone America!!!
Here's to freedom, justice and the American way!!! Obama style!
OMG... Listen guys, I got my hair cut yesterday!! It is quite different!! I got a massive fringe for the first time in my life and I love it!!! I got my hair cut at this place called Tommy Guns in London and it was great. I have also started training and running again in an aid to lose a stone because I am goin over to the states next year. I want to shape up... I am so chuffed that I was able to get into the dress I wore at the Scottish Style Awards the other night cos that was my goal for a while!!!
Anyways, I am so excited about the tour next year, cant wait until it starts!
Gotta show my boyfriend my new hair!! He doesn't know I have done it!! Here is a pic to show you what it looks like xxx
It is getting so cold out there, winter is coming me thinks!!!
So, let me tell you what I have been upto the past few weeks... I have just finished applying for SXSW in Texas next year so I am really excited about the prospect of playing ther!!! Ive also just applied for Canadian Music Week which is directly before SXSW so hopefully planning on being out in North America for a couple of months.
I am hoping to be able to announce soon that the boys and I will also be playing at Scotland week in New York next year so it should be a great old time next year in the states!!!
Dont worry though, I am not neglecting home... you see, 2009 is "Homecoming Scotland year", so I am going on a Scottish tour, dates will shortly be announced, starting in Edinburgh at the end of January !! This time round though I am goin to visit every nook and cranny of Scotland...hopefuly playing Thurso, Oban, Inverness, Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen, Glasgow & maybe venture up to the Isle Of Skye too!!! This tour will mark my very first gig in the town i was born, Banff. I will be doing two nights there ... can't wait!!! Wohooo, its gonna be awesome !!! So lots to look forward to soon...
I am actually out of the country at the moment, infact i am on an entirely different continent!!! Cannot tell you anymore about it until i return though but dont worry, all will be revealed next week ;)
Anyways... got to get me some zzzz', got a busy day ahead tomorrow. See you all when I get back. Big love xxx
P.S to those who messaged for the downloads, I will get round to you all - sorry for the delay. I am also thinking about recording a few more to release later for y'all as a special EP. X x
Yo guys how you all doing!!?? I'm on my way to my riding lesson!! Yes im back in the saddle!! ha ha.....not alot of you guys know this but I used to be a keen horse rider...had my own horse called Tigger!! He was ace, my best friend....when I was younger in between playing down the pubs with "The Residents" I used to go out hacking alot...and when all the new houses were getting built around me I used to nick the piping and make jumps!! Ha no wonder they all had such terrible plumbing problems....! The reason that i'm back in the saddle is partly cos I miss it and also iI need to get in training for my new vid which I can exclusively reveal will see me ridin ga horse in!!! He he....very exciting..
Anyhow y'all I just wanted to tell you about the little media player that I've added to the my space (Just below my blogs, its pink!!!). I wanted you all to have an insight into how the songs have changed over the years so I have uploaded a couple of old demos of Time and What If I'm Right....now I want to let you hear some of the tracks that never made it on to the second album.....years ago Joni Mitchell released a Cd that she referred to as the "Hits and the Misses" so I guess you can say that im doing the same!!!
I am not sure as to whether any of this material will be released or not but if you would like to download any of the songs that I include on the player then i am hoping to get them available to download soon!!!
After all you guys are my fans and your the most important thing to me!!!
So head on over there now to check out this tune called "Days of Summer"!!!
I have just been down Brighton for the weekend...been really nice, suns been shinin and I had a lazy day today..ate ice cream and watched Bridget Jones!!! Proper girly day..
So, so... I have been crazy busy with lots of things and I am gearing up for a trip abroad in the next few weeks but its top secret so I cannot tell you what it is until I get back!!!
I also found time to get to some London Fasion Week shows though which has been really cool!! Dont know if I told you guys but I made friends with Jimmy Choo and he sent me these amazing shoes which i wore to the Brittish Fashion Council Party the other night, most confiest heels I have ever worn!!! I was wearing this awesome ballgown by Aimee McWilliams whose a great new Scottish designer, it was absolutely beautiful... the trouble is though, it was too long!!! Blatantly had been made for someone who was 7ft tall so my 5ft2 little self was drowned in it... everyone commented on it saying how gorgeous it was but now I know how brides feel when they have to go pee in thier wedding dresses!!!! Ha Ha!!
Check this pic of it below, you cannot tell here but there is a massive train on it!!!
I am off for my dinner now!!! Catch y'all soon!! Big Love X x
Yo yo schmoo's how you been?? I've been taking a little break for the last week cos I feel like I've been non stop for 3 years with no break so I'm chilling out a bit and writing some new material. Not just for me this time though for other artists and projects as well. I just finished writing a track for the new will smith movie called 7 pounds, I can't say for sure yet but I'm really hoping its gonna make it on there!! We'll see....it would be ace to sit down in a cinema and hear a song on a movie knowing that I wrote it!! Anyways I'm gonna spend the next few weeks working on some film tracks cos its something that I'm really keen on getting into. I've also been eye balling some new york apartments, jake and I were considering buying a place there so that I can concentrate on my career in the usa. Don't worry guys I won't be abandoning the uk!! I'll probably spend a couple months at a time there. I'll be back in the states in march playing gigs and doing sxsw in texas so were gonna do a flat hunt then, exciting stuff though cos I love new york!! Catch ya later peeps Big love xxx
Hay you guys!!? How do one and all?? So I've just returned from a bit of a mini tour which was awesome...played a round of gigs...one on the east coast supporting the sugabaes, one with mcfly and alphabeat in manchester, then on to blackpool for the radio 2 illuminations with scouting for girls and boyzone then up to bonny scotland for a fezzy with the brand new heavies!! So quite a cool little mini tour we had!! The blackpool gig was ace though probably my fave....I met so many random peeps including lawrence llewyn bowen, the stig!!, ronan keating and jeremy clasrkson!! I cornered clarkson just as he was leaving to insist that he put me on top gear!! I've challenged him to my battered old focus versus one of his reasonably priced cars!! I would tear that track up!! I'm a bit of a speed demon admittedly!! I remember once doin dorset to cheshire in just under 3 hrs, it was bout 3 in the morning, not a soul on the road and me and my focus did bout 120 all the way!! It was awesome....if I wasn't a singer I'd be a racing driver!! So you can imagine how excited I was too meet clarkson!! He was tired though bless him......then me. My boys and the scouting for girls lads ended up on the flippin ballroom dance floor of at the bottom of the blackpool tower!! Ha ha...me and the boys were trying to find a way up to the top of the tower but bar absailing the feckin side of it...there was no chance!! Anyway guys I'm as sick as a dog right now... Got the flu or something..just been runnin on adrenaline now for so long...went to a party tonight in picadilly and I swear I was close to faintin on the red carpet......I really need a rest cos I think I've burnt myself out so I'm gona disappear for a week or so....have booked myself into a yoga centre for a week and am gona go sort myself out before I start gearing up for the new single which by the way is pink and the lily!! Woop woop.....I'm even threatenin a brand new haircut...maybe a funky bob or something...I need a change!!
Hay you guys!! Whats up? So its been a mad busy week, last week i was on a million tv shows which was pretty awesome, playing loads of gigs this week in leeds, manchester, blackpool & bonnie old scotland up my end of the country!!!
We're headlining the Feugh Festival!!! Great to be home, I miss Scotland so much.So, I dont know if you guys read the article in the record the other day about me wanting a baby !!! It was so strange reading about myself getting older and wanting that kind of stuff out of life! Its funny, cos I have just started working on the third album. WOW. Cant believe its the third album!!! Thats mad!
On a different note, I was out last night at the launch of the new website zooquo.com, pretty cool - lots of art and music and stuff. Check it out. I rather embarasingly tripped on the cobblestones outside infront of the paparazzi but thankfully i didnt hit the deck cos my manager was there to prop me up. May have had a few too many cocktails...
I cant believe Lily Allen hit that girl in the street though, what the hell is that girl all about. I always expected her next album to be out the same time as me as both our first albums came out at the same time. But not a peep. I cant believe she is slagging off Katy Perry aswell, I am on Katy's side, I think she is great!! Lily must be too busy starting fights and slagging people off to write some new songs!!! Come on lil get your SH#T together!! Oh yeah, and all the top gear team will be there aswell!! This is my chance to blag my way onto top gear. I reckon I could absolutely tear up that track!!!
Anyways... I am going to get back to my lyrics now... Penning a cracker at the mo for album number three. Woop Woop.
