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Holding Hands Video!
We just finished shooting the video for ‘Holding Hands’ over a very intense and surreal 36 hours. Can’t wait to share it with you soon! Huge love to Adam Greves, Adam Lawson, the incredible, unique talent of Thomas Monckton, Rhia Parker, Chris, Paul, Zac and Ollie Jones. Killer team!
We’ll be showing it on the big screen before we play at the London single launch on 12 October, so make sure you get your tickets!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1202687343170189
New Single – Holding Hands – 30 October!
Memory
When I was a toddler I was riding my balance bike along the veranda of our house in Australia and fell off the edge and onto the exposed metal handle bar. I cut most of the muscle holding my left eye in place and nearly became a pirate. It’s one of my earliest memories and left my Dad’s Ford Falcon with a stain he never did get out and me with an asymmetric gaze that I see every time I look in the mirror.
When this photo was developing in front of me, and I saw the eyes, I thought about that memory as a kid, about the Ford Falcon (which always smelt of petrol from a leak we never found) and my Dad driving me like a lunatic to the hospital.
Amongst other things, this new album is about memory and my relationship to it – particularly to Australia – about its fleetingness and what happens when you start to lose it.
I have some announcements coming up this week – I’m really looking forward to starting to share some of this new music – and stories – with you.
Thanks for all your support – I won’t forget it.
Jamie x
Photo by Kasia Wozniak
P.s. Here is a playlist I made to look at clouds to, I like to do that when I’m thinking. https://open.spotify.com/…/…/playlist/4mi84EpI4kjb4ipg3nGW8l
The album recording is done, let the mixing begin!
The peace of my years
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A Doorstep Song #1 – Peg and Awl
The Life That I Have & Time Remembered
Travelling these last few days, I can’t stop my brain whirring – of music I am writing, this album I am making, the concert I am playing, and a whole life I am living. Forever restlessly double thinking the next step. Even the birds i can hear all around me, singing obliviously, only crowd out the noise for a second. And yet, despite myself, small moments of tranquility, and of stillness, like this one, give me pause to remember this poem by Leo Marks – The Life That I Have – and this piece of music – Time Remembered – by Bill Evans.
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours
and yours.
Filming Masks
Yesterday was such a beautiful day making a new video for ‘Masks’ with the supreme talents of the Phaedra ensemble for company. Sometimes things just feel right. Looking forward to sharing it an the rest of the album with you all soon. Huge love to Pedro Velasco, Max Jones, Alex Killpartrick,Phillip Granell, Fred Thomas, Richard Jones, Chihiro Ono, Sergio Serra you inspire me! xxx
