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Saturday 4th October
VOTE FOR MEEEEEE!
Bonjour mes petits filous...
I have more exciting news to impart! I'm one of the five finalists in Radio Mercury's 'Next Big Thing' competition! The five artists and their songs will be featured on Adam O'Neill's Drivetime Show each day from Monday to Friday next week (my day is Thursday) and the public will be able to vote for their favourite on Mercury's website. The winner will be announced on air on Friday 17th October.
In case you miss Thursday's show, I have uploaded the whole song ('Just Me') to the music page. REPEAT: You can hear 'Just Me' here in its entirety, for two weeks only! This is the first time I've uploaded a whole finished track from the album, so enjoy it while it lasts. :P
Voting opens on Monday - please vote for me and hassle everyone you know to vote for me as well!
Much love and a healthy dose of competitiveness,
Wednesday 24th September
Two things to report:
1) Italy is amazing.
2) I have added a very rough demo of a new song to the music page, free to download. I now have the ability to record files small enough that the website uploader doesn't eat me alive, so you can expect more free tracks in the future. At the moment, the song is 'For Freedom', lyrics are on this page.
If you download it, leave a comment in the guestbook! I'm feeling lonely. :(
Ciao bellas,
Monday 1st September
ANNAJO - FINALIST IN UK SONGWRITING CONTEST 2008!!!
Bonjour my lovelies. I'm here to bring you the mighty fine news that my song 'Gideon' got me a finalist position in the Christian/Faith category of the UK Songwriting Contest, and 'Just Me' made me a semi-finalist in the pop category as well - one of the most popular categories in the competition.
The UK Songwriting Contest was formed in 2002 by the BRIT Trust and is supported by BBC Radio, the Guild of International Songwriters and Composers and the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, among others. The competition is judged by experienced songwriters and producers and other industry experts.
The judges' score of 8 for 'Gideon' puts it in the top 5% of entries across all ten categories (more than 6,200 songs), and means it was considered for a winning position. So I reckon I did pretty well. :)
To see the official results and hear the winning songs (which are pretty damn good, it has to be said), click here.
In case you've missed it, I'm also in the final of a local singing competion called 'Star for a Night' - the event is this Wednesday at the Chequer Mead Theatre (see the gigs page for more info) and it'd be lovely to see lots of you there. Maybe I'll win this one!
Mwah,
Monday 2nd June, 2008
Beauteousness by Debs Brown, who rocks muchly. Can you feel the album launch getting closer? I can! All that remains is a little bit of fluting and a lot of mixing. The finish line is so near!
Other music to check out in the meantime:
* Fascination by Alphabeat: summer encapsulated in a three-minute record.
* Panic at the Disco's new album, Pretty Odd: goodbye strip clubs and dance rock, hello Sgt. Pepper-esque horn sections, pretty string parts and songs about moons...
* The Shins, who make me smile a lot (Chutes Too Narrow is brilliant).
*Bosh, whose album I obtained at the weekend and am REALLY liking (you'll have to go see them play if you want a copy too!), and whose keyboard player Grant also played on my album.
* Sara Bareilles, because I simply can't plug her enough.
That should do you for now. Soon you'll have me to listen to!!!!
Peace and goodwill to all...
Sunday 25th May, 2008
Good morrow, fellow travellers.
I'm recording some double bass this afternoon! That's right, I nabbed me another willing genius to lend his many talents to my beauteous album of joy. And then my friends, we will be on the home stretch. You will DEFINITELY see my album for sale on this site by the beginning of July. It's been a loooong time coming, but I'm really happy with it and I trust you will be too, if indeed you buy a copy, which of course you will. Plus loads more for all your friends and family. Right? Right.
Oh by the way, I'm playing at Godstonebury on June 21st, and you will be able to either buy or pre-order the album there, and get a pretty little discount to boot. See you there!
Love, sunshine and smooth jazz,
xx
Thursday 20th March, 2008
ANNAJO IS SEEKING A BAND!
Right, I've had enough of solo gigs, I want to put together a band. My problem? Most of the musicians I know are already in bands. So, this is as good a place as any to advertise I feel. If you're reading this and you're a guitarist, drummer, bassist, or any other kind of -ist that you think I might benefit from, read on.
First thing's first, this will not be a band to take over the world with. I don't need a band for that. I mean, er, I'm doing lots of other stuff already and this really would be a side project. So I'm thinking regular gigs but not with the intention of getting a record deal blah blah blah.
So if you are:
a) good!
b) a Christian
c) based not too far from Crawley (it's up to you what you consider 'not too far'!)
d) interested in finding out more
then email prettysongs@annajo.co.uk
and I'll send you more information. :)
I live in hope....
Saturday 29th December, 2007
New download people new download! Try to contain your excitement. :D
I'm off to Prague today (not on tour, sadly, but y'know...) so I'll take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year and an awesome 2008. See you soon my lovelies!!
Wednesday 28th November, 2007
Welcome to my website!
It's been a long time coming and it's still not quite finished, but it has a pretty banner and everything, isn't that cool?! I'm still getting to grips with it at the moment, but soon my pretties, soooon.
For those of you who don't know me: hi, I'm annaJo, I write songs, and sing them, and play them on the piano, and people often seem to like it so hopefully you will too. :)
For those of you who DO know me, and who have been awaiting the album almost as long as I have, it's nearly ready, I promise! The artwork is being created and the acoustic tracks are being mixed, and the moment it's all put together in a magical display of brilliance, you will be the first to know. You, plural.
For all you loyal fans that visit this site, there's a treat in the music section. If I could put chocolate online I would have done that, but I can't, so you'll have to make do with the next best thing: that's right, a free song! I will change the download every month, the tracks will mostly be demos of old tracks and occasionally new ones, so keep coming back and you can build up a collection of rarities to sell on eBay when I'm world famous, which will be never, but we can dream, right? Man, that was a long sentence. I think I'm done.
Love and high notes,
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