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You used to swallow the bones of me

You used to be the only light through the tree

And now you try to hurt me like before

But I don’t need either of you anymore

A swap of suits is how we used to deal

But if I was ever the joker it was for my own appeal

I can be my own person no bounds or rules

And you can keep her, but you are the fool.

Goodbye former home, you were cruel to me

Lets stay apart forever, now that I’m free

I’ll come touch your presence on a certain day

I’ll come sleep in your atmosphere but I will not stay

Remember the night you stole my fate

To try and salvage your own but its always too late

You can change your face but never your face

I’ll see you forever as a chapter, a moment, a trace

I’m not sure I’m running or escaping from the past

But i’ll whisper it into the grass when I find home at last

A lingering uncertainty wont cloud my way

For the fog from behind me gets thicker everyday

Goodbye former home, you were cruel to me

Lets stay apart forever, now that I’m free

I’ll come touch your presence on a certain day

I’ll come sleep in your atmosphere but I will not stay

Chloe Parkin.

I wrote this today about home I suppose. Thought I'd add the lyrics here. I just feel my life isn't really meant for here anymore. Not after everything that has happened, I suppose this is all my feeling in one lovely depressing song.

(I'm almost thinking that Charlottesville in the USA is gonna be my dream big home, I talk of briefly here.)

And for today, that is all.

Juliette Valduriez

As soon as I found her I had to write about her. Juliette Valduriez is 22 from Paris and offically my musical hero. Her guitar shredding genius and composition ability has me absolutely taken a-back. She is amazing.

Whenever I see someone like Juliette, it makes me deeply depressed that I never got an instrumental lessons when I was younger. I am learning to play the guitar now, yes, but I will never reach the standard of someone like her, who was obviously born with most of the talent but who has also been technically trained from a young age. I envy everything about her yet I adore her at the same time.

But she is very mysterious. As I have attempted to research her my notes came out something like this:-

WHO IS SHE?

WHO IS SHE?

WHO IS SHE?

WHY ISN'T SHE FRONTING HER OWN BAND?

WHO IS SHE?

I would like to see more of Juliette Valduriez, thats for sure.

Galtres WIN, Wakestock FAIL, Uni and bands you should listen to.

Hello Musite! It's been a while. I suppose this summer has been far to busy!

Galtres 2011
I arrived at Galtres nice and early, it was raining but we set up camp and got some lunch easily, then wandered into the queue for our wristbands and free glasses which went smoothly. We headed straight for the beer and cider tent and got out our voucher books only to be told we can try before we buy. So try we did. After a hell of a lot of booze I wandered over to the open mic tent and made a fool of myself and really enjoyed myself. Cheap drinks, cheap entertainment (me) I was in festival heaven already. I was very happy I got to try Churos for the first time ever! Saw Puressence play which was just as good as always (with a few minor sound problems) stumbled happily back to the tent through the now incredibly sloppy mud and slept. The days followed just as nicely and the reason I don't have much to write about it is because it was cheap, entertaining, had a brilliant atmosphere and some of the best beer, cider and ale I've ever had. All in all it was amazing. So were the Levelers!


Wakestock 2011
Never again. Me and Grace got a lift to bangor station all excited for our amazing weekend in North Wales listening to some of our favourite artists, drinking and socialising. As we waited for the 'coach' we had paid £7.50 each way for, we lugged our luggage (that was all bound together with bungee ropes so we could pull it all in one) we got out our camp chairs and waited. When the double decker bus that looked like it was 30 years old pulled up to pick us up our faces dropped as we realised there were only two buses coming and around 200 people waiting for a ride to the festival site. First disaster of the weekend a heavy handed bus driver yanks graces suitcase and snaps the handle, bundles it to the back of the bus along with hundreds of other bags. We took our seats and you could actually feel the weight of the 100+ bags pulling the back of the bus down. Then began the 10mph journey to the site which took over an hour on a shitty bus.

We arrived in the glorious sunshine with our optimism still in tact. But as we dragged graces now broke suitcase (now being dragged by one of the bungee ropes) as we got round the corner there it was. Not a queue being kept in order by the fantastic security staff but a mush of people trying to squeeze there way to the front. So we sighed, realised that we would just have to wait and it would only be a couple of hours. 8 hours, 2 bag loses, one cup of human piss, one angry chav climing over our bags, sweat and a few bruises later we were finally almost in. Our frustration was echoed throughout the crowd and although so far it had been an absolute nightmare and most of our optimism already out the window we were determined to make the most of it. As we had our bags checked, wristbands attached and ID's checked we were being ushered along as quickly as possible by eager people who had been waiting just as long as us but who's patience had just gone straight out the window. With Graces broken bag and my broken 'zen' we attempted to find somewhere to camp. We pitched our tent, met some lovely Welsh girls and things began to look up after the nightmare that was that day.

That night we ventured into the town, grabbing our £7 bus passes we had pre-paid for only to discover that the bus wasn't running for another hour so we would have to get a taxi. Armed with a haggle savy Welsh girl we managed to get into pwiheli for under a tenner for 4 of us. We got some stuff and headed back on the bus only to discover the had thrown the whole bus pass idea out the window and we could just get on the bus for free which infuriated me. Later in the weekend they decided that the bus passes were actually essential and me and Grace didn't know what the fuck had happened to ours. Great.

Aside from people who were immediately camping near us. Most were utter cunts. Rude little scallies in there shorts that reached so far up there arse I was sure they bought them from an underwear shop and not topshop, boys (not men) in their hipster chinos and holister T-shirts (all a farce to cover up there ASBO like behaviour) barging past people, opening tents to wind everyone up, passing judgement on every person. I wasn't aware it was a catwalk show, I thought it was a festival. Me and Grace and our new welsh friends still had a brilliant time back at the tents together finding out the amazing goings on inside the festival such as a girl shitting in someone elses tent and refusing to move and also a woman who had shit herself in a portaloo and took off all her clothes, left them in there then ran away naked.

Me and Grace made the most of the weekend that we could and although we had a good complain here and there (it's what we do best) Ed Sheeran was amazing so was Biffy and The Wombats and everyone else. We absolutely loved the Wakeboarding and the sun that appeared for us that weekend. But lets just say I think we'll avoid Wakestock festival next time.

p.s The food and drink was really fucking ridiculously priced.

ANYWAY...
Enough of the complaining, I know. I'm moving down to the University of Chester on the 25th of September to study a BA in Popular Music Performance so hopefully I'll have more time to to blog. I'm moving into Fisher House which is Full Board and saves me a lot of cooking! Excitement is just taking over me at the moment, i'm trying to put off packing as much as I can! Also, my band will be opening PULP in Chester on the 2nd of October hopefully (which is the day before my birthday!) which I am really looking forward to as well.
That's enough for now..
Heres some unsigned bands I've recently become infuriated with because people don't seem to recognise them enough...
Club Smith (http://www.facebook.com/clubsmithmusic)
The Birdman Rallies(http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Birdman-Rallies/143833905653056)
Ellipsis (haha, I'm a cheeky bitch)(http://www.facebook.com/pages/ELLIPSIS/172581273875)

Welcome to the world of Mac and Les Paul and Ellipsis *NEWS*

Hello! Late blog! OOPS! So the past few weeks have been hectic as I am appearing in a production of 'We Will Rock You' as Killer Queen and it is coming to the end of the process now and I've not stopped running around like a headless futuristic chicken.

Firstly I want to talk about how I've just purchased myself a Macbook! For the past year since I've been with Ellipsis its been a world of Garage Band, Logic, Pro Tools (All music recording software) and basically me slobbering every time I saw a Mac and finally I am running not only Snow Leopard but I have dual booted it so I can also run Windows and effectively have the best of both worlds! I am already running Logic and working on getting Pro Tools soon. Logic Studio is going to take me forever to work out how to run but I have Garage Band to see my recording needs through until I have it down.



Now I really wanna talk about and amazing documentary I saw last week, Les Paul: Live in New York. Most people know Les Paul as a guitar brand but I'm talking about the person who created this guitar. Lester William Polsfuss was born in 1915 and up to the day he died in 2009 he was STILL playing. And not playing to sell out massive arenas hunting for money and eternal fame or doing special one off shows to gather tens of thousands of fans.. but he was playing in a small Jazz club on a Monday night in New York EVERY WEEK. Someone who suffers from arthritis as well as a whole bunch of degenerative disorders but he loved what he did so much that he carried on. His sense of humour was impeccable and it was almost a comedy show with some amazing Jazz, Blues and really classic Rock 'n' Roll. He gathered a full house every week and for a 90 year old man he had more energy than I do. And 18 year old on the cusp on my music career. I just hope I turn out like him.

Ellipsis will be playing The Roadhouse in Manchester May 27th and I'm really looking forward to playing!

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Imogen Heap, civil partnership me.

I suppose looking at it commercially, Adele is one of the biggest ispirations to female vocalists out there at the moment. And I don't fault her I really don't she is amazing and has a lot of depth that everyone can relate to but I want to talk about the artist I feel is overlooked in the music industry quite a bit.


Imogen Heap

Imogen Heap started in the mid 90's in a band called Acasia and although I guarentee most people who read this (if ever) wouldn't be able to recall any of this bands work. I can, but I only discovered it after I discovered Imogen Heap. Imogen Heap was more well known for her work with the band Frou Frou but this is not where I think her best work was done. Imogen Heap as a soloist is absolutely without any doubt one of the best musician's of my lifetime (so far). Her album iMegaphone is a mix of Electronica and pop that makes some kind of freak elctop baby. Everything she writes, records and prodcuces mainly herself with little help from outside partys and it really shows in her raw work that sounds absolutely perfect the way it is. A lifetimes dream of mine as a singer/songwriter is that I would meet her to pick her brain one day (infact I hope she accidentally stumbles on this whilst googling her own name out of curosity and thinks what the hell. A girl can dream heh?). Getting back to iMegaphone, 'Come Here Boy' a track from the album, is the first song I ever heard by Heap and I was instantly hooked and bought all her work. Anyway, I could ramble on all day about Imogen Heap and I hope to review her new work as soon as I get a good collection of songs.
Imogen Heap is currently working on a 'concept' album where people send her in different sounds and she records a track over a two week period every 3 months and releases it immediately. She has recently brought out 'Lifeline' Source - Wikipedia and Imogen Heaps official website

Imogen Heap's 'Hide and Seek' was recently used in a remix, and all of a sudden more people seemed to be listening to her music. But I really wish Heap was advertised more so I could share my love for her with a thousand other people. Although as a musician myself I appreciate she probably has the perfect career as a musician, making a good living, has a good following without the hassle of mega fame. So, I take it back, this amazing woman actually has it all.

Come Here Boy (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggcTEQaTpd8&feature=related

CHERRY GHOST, YOUTUBE AND FESTIVAL SEASON!

These past two weeks have been a mixture of mental and paint dry boring. First off I decided I needed to broaden my music library even more from 103 albums on my ITunes to at least 150 hundred so I'd have a massive amount of new music to listen to and find something I'd love. I found Cherry Ghost.

Cherry Ghost have a slight 'Editors' sound with a massive edge. They write relatable memorable lyrics and melodies that made me want to listen more. As I want to make this a short blog as it is 1:30am that is all i'll say on them for now. (so great to use HTML again...)



I am currently planning a venture into the YouTube community. Music is allot to put out there for myself and since I'm only just starting to take learning the guitar seriously, I'm sure it's going to have some shocking results. I'm stuck in a rut of same strumming pattern, refusing to try barre chords, refusing to sting pick instead of strum and I have no ability to learn chords past A, Am, Asus2, Bm7, Bm, C, C7, D, Dm, D7, Dsus, E, Em, E7, Esus, F (the non barre version and I still struggle with it.) G, G7. Now, That sounds a lot but all of sus and 7th's I learnt this week. Transition is still a little off but I'm sure I'll get there. Never the less I am planning to start my venture into YouTube within the next month at some point.



So festival season starts this month with FOM in my hometown of Manchester, Unfortunately I can't afford to go (story of my life), The Buzzcocks, one of my personal all time favourite bands are playing so I think it's going to be an amazing weekend that I will be catching up with online. My festival of choice this year will be Wakestock in Abersoch. Biffy Clyro to headline and with acts like Ellie Goulding, Chase and Status and The Wombats I was there for its well priced £125 weekend ticket (the say weekend but its actually Thursday - Monday). And although a girl can dream to have endless money so I could attend the festival to end all festivals Glastonbury I guess I'm gonna be there but in living room spirit. I'm more than excited for this last summer whilst permanently living in Manchester.

Well this first blog experience wasn't so bad after all.

Chloe