Iona Maclean-Singer/Songwriter/bad piano and bad guitar for writing.
A selection of amazing musicians in different countries for different gigs!
Photos by Jono Self (main pics) and Dave Raffell(Studio pics).
Influences
Nina Simone I LOVE YOU PORGY.
Elkie Brookes PEARLS.
Hall and Oats writing. Whitney... what a bloody voice. Portishead changed it all and made me fall for beats mixed with sweet vocals...
so obviously Massive Attack...
Skunk ANansie...
Alanis Morrissette
Natalie Merchant and her CARNIVAL,
iNDIA ARIE,
SADE,
Oasis first album just wish there was no attitude as the music rocked,
David Gray&many more soulful boys with guitars.
Eva Cassidy.
Nat King Cole, Marvin Gaye, Otis Reading as they change my mood in seconds...
Carly Simon
Carpenters
Simon and Garfunkel
Christina Rossetti Poetry,
Van Goghs Art!
Sounds Like
Janis Joplin, Alicia Keys, Tracey Chapman, Joss Stone, Paolo Nutini, Lauren Hill, Elkie Brookes, Corinne Bailey-Rae, Fiona Apple, Natalie Merchant, Eva Cassidy, Amy Winehouse, Jewel, Sade.
Iona started writing age 11... and couldnt stop so now she has written thousands of songs(65x songs in the last 3weeks). In the past Iona has experimented with different genres, She has recorded and performed ACOUSTIC SOUL, FUNKY HOUSE, POP, BREAKBEAT, RNB, HIPHOP, DRUM N BASS with different producers, bands, MC's, Clubs, Venues, Pirate and Mainstream Radio stations, Film and TV. Iona is well known for her freakish harmonic gift for Freestyle vocals(improvisation-where the words/tune and structure all come out of thin air off the cuff whatever is being played).
This year Iona has Written and recorded music for a couple of films/t.v. Recently worked on AIRPLAYS album, which is breakbeat and so sexy(www.myspace.com/airplayweb)! Also wrote and performed on Delta9's album-check out SAVOUR MY FLAVOUR among many others, and many others albums.
Iona has settled on her own genre which is SWEET ACOUSTIC SOUL, She wrote her album on a farm in Somerset with nothing but a view and keys and cubase set up.
She demo'd her debut album: "SWEET CONTRADICTION" and has been traveling throughout Europe and the States, right now between L.A, London and New York doing showcases and meetings, promoting the music and meeting labels, managers and producers who want to be involved with the album.
Hiya Iona! Hope you are well and enjoying the English sunshine! Just wanted to let you know that my new album "Letting Go" is now released. God Bless, Tim.
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Thank you for your friendship and I am glad you enjoy my music! I could not have done it without your support. I am very excited and full of inspiration that I can't wait to share with you. New things are on the way! I hope you are doing what you love and following your dreams! Don't forget to keep in touch!!
hey lovely. let me know how it goes there!!! i wish you best. what do you need recommendations on? food? clubs? stores? adventure ideas? hey did you ever get that photo from the night we met up? of me in my awful waitress mode? i'd love it as a keepsake of what brought us together. i miss you. things are good here. wish you were here to be my sidekick.
On Friday 10th October, 19year old Joshua Piehl of Tunbridge Wells Kent and three other young graffiti artists were sentenced to a total of 6 years in High Down Prison after pleading guilty to a charge of 'conspiracy to commit criminal damage' at Southwark Crown Court.
I beleive that it is wrong when property is deemed by British law to be more important than human life. It is outrageous that someone who hospitalises or rapes another human being can receive a much smaller sentence than a teenager writing his name somewhere he is not supposed to.
I feel that sending a teenager into prison, bearing in mind the potentially damaging long-term effect of such a sentence, for a graffiti offence committed when he was a child is outrageously excessive. Besides being a scandalous waste of taxpayer's money and taking up valuable prison space, which could have been used for dangerous criminals, it is morally irresponsible and socially destructive to alienate any young person from society in such a way for such a non-violent crime.
The message sent out to other teenagers by imposing such a high sentence not only alienates youth from society but actually encourages what it seeks to prevent by promoting a lack of faith in the justice system and a lack of respect for authority.
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Hey lovely, how are things going? Was humming City Girl the past few days and just wanted to let ya know it's stayed with me for the past few months!! Love it xxxx
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