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The Band are Less Scary and also here’s my long lost Top Five 10.04.10
Written by Hannah
Today, the 10th of April. It is eleven o’clock and I have just watched four weddings and a funeral with my ma and pa. Now I am reflecting on how I wonderfully spent my Saturday making music, petting small animals, sorting out lyrics and ordering pizza.
I had another studio encounter and it was rather nice and much less scary. But still scary.
Jimmy and Andy wrote this beautiful song called “Box of Yellow Roses“. Here it is:
He played it to me today and I may be frightfully naive about anything and everything in the studio, but I thought it was a beautiful song. It is one of my personal favourites along with Chamberlain in Munich, Brad and Janet’s Oldest Daughter Frankie, Big Old Bird and Starin’ at My Shoes (still to enter the website). Oo and No Poetry. The list goes on, but anywho.
So he made me sing again and this time I had Ed and a Sophie Shield rather than Andy and his jazz hands. I think the Sophie Shield made things better, because I was shaking less. An improvement.
Oh and also, Jimmy said he was going to make a list of rules for the studio. I was wearing a bell in my hair, courtesy of the Lindt Bunny and Easter. One of the rules will be no bells.
All in all, I wasn’t hugely productive today for a mixture of reasons, (but don’t tell Jimmy this). I had lots of fun singing in the studio – studio time is awesome, and then 60% of the rest of the time I spent talking to Tory and Sophie, about Cambridge, boys, Reading, GCSEs and other things that were not related to my reasonably long to do list. So, with 40% of my energy going in to actual work, I got a few things done, but I work in lists, and when one thing isn’t done, that is added to the next list. Therefore, I need another 60% of work done from this weekend before I can sleep at night. Next week. 160% of work energy will be hurled at Abubilla. So brace yourself, I can be scary too.
Now, to the long lost top five.
Number One:
I have massive appreciation for Six Months of Saturdays. It’s a killer album. Many of the songs are integrated into some of 27 playlists on my itunes. And only special songs are invited to this VIP area, sure, Shania Twain and Britney Spears make a few appearances, but so do legends like The Kinks, June Carter/Johnny Cash and Bob Marley. It made me smile to come across the excited blog about when the CDs arrived, I can’t wait for when Misery Marmalade and Other Spanish Jams arrives, I think this will be a killer album too.
Number Two:
Number one leads me nicely on to number two, because I am very excited about the new album and it’s front cover. I am also quite scared because I have to organise a lot of it. But I’m always scared.
The way the front cover is working out is through a Jam Jar Competition, people design labels for certain songs and then we choose the best ones for the front. It’s pretty cool. There’s stuff about that here.
Number Three:
Yesterday Imogen posted a blog about Friday Feelings. I love her blogs. She ended this one with “Bring it on”, funnily enough, that’s how I ended my personal statement we had to write at school, which was far less appropriate. The weather is lovely so this blog was very nice to read and captured my mood wonderfully.
Number Four:
Have I shown you this before? I’m sure I have. I don’t care, it’s brilliant.
Number Five:
A Top Five New Years Eve Special. I love New Years Eve, every year it’s exciting and disorientating when the year changes, and this was a particularly exciting one seeing as it’s a new decade. It’s also appropriate for me to choose New Years Eve right now, because it’s midnight, a mini New Years Eve moment every night. It’s Sunday, a different day to what it was when I started writing this blog. Scary. Time flies, eh?
Happy Sunday!
Hannah