I really enjoyed our warm-up gig on Saturday night which was a house concert in Camberwell, London. Thanks to everyone who came – it was a really special night for us. I’m looking forward now to the start of my UK tour this weekend at Dorchester Arts and The Hawth in Crawley. If you’ve got tickets I’ll see you there.
xx
Emily’s song ‘Beautiful’ was played on Radio 2 this morning. The song is from her album ‘Bird Inside A Cage’. You can listen again here (scroll to 01:33).
Emily is now back in the UK following her trip back to the Australian bush. Her 2018 UK tour starts on 9 February at Dorchester Arts. This may be her last UK tour for some time so please book your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
Dates include Crawley, Wotton-under-Edge, Thames Ditton, Fareham, New Milton, Bromsgrove, Stockton-on-Tees, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Cricklade, Penzance, Worth Matravers, Bath, Cambridge, Penarth, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Barnoldswick, York, Carlisle, Biddulph, Crail, Glasgow and Newcastle.
If you have friends or family in any of these places, please do spread the word – we really appreciate your support.
Back in the UK from Australia, jetlagged, we’re in shock at the sudden change in weather, light and surroundings. I guess it will take a bit of time to adjust. But today the sun is shining in Bath so all of a sudden things feel a lot better.
And I’m really looking forward to the start of my UK tour in a few weeks’ time. We’re playing Dorchester, Crawley, Wotton-under-Edge, Thames Ditton, Fareham, New Milton, Bromsgrove, Stockton-on-Tees, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Cricklade, Penzance, Worth Matravers, Bath, Cambridge, Penarth, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Barnoldswick, York, Carlisle, Biddulph, Crail, Glasgow and Newcastle.
This may be the last time in a while we’ll be touring the UK so please spread the word among your family and friends – all support very welcome. Dates and ticket links are on my gigs page.
I hope all’s well in your world. Thanks so much for your support.
xx
Emily’s live performance of her song ‘Start Over Again’ on Clare Balding’s show in April last year was replayed on Radio 2 yesterday as ‘one of the highlights of 2017’. You can listen again here (scroll to 52:00).
It’s boiling hot and all I can hear is the buzzing of the flies, strange-sounding birds and the cicadas. I’m on the verandah of the main house at Coolabine Farmstead. Coolabine means place of koalas, though I’ve never seen one here.
The view is stunning. Rolling hills and trees as far as the eye can see. It rained last night so everything is impossibly green. The goats are sheltering from the sun and waiting for their afternoon feed.
Our shack is unrecognizable – only the roof remains. The bora ants ate all the tree trunks that used to support it so Christian’s brother has rebuilt it. Gone are the potato sack walls. My yurt is still standing, filled up with boxes of our stuff and other junk. The tattered prayer flags flutter in the wind.
Yesterday we went swimming in a big waterhole down the road and had a picnic in the rain. I’ve seen a goanna and some kangaroos but I haven’t seen a snake yet. A spider got into bed with us the other night but thankfully it wasn’t the huge spider that’s been hanging out over the door.
We cleaned the cheese-room and made some feta and halloumi which was delicious. On Christmas Day I finished a new song. Next week we’re off to Melbourne to see Christian’s sister then back here to start vocal recordings for the next album.
I hope you had a lovely Christmas wherever you are. Wishing you all very happy new year and I’ll see you in 2018.
xx
We’re off tomorrow to Australia and the place where Shaktu Records began – shack no.2 on a goat farm in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. So this is just to wish you all very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you so much for all your support in 2017 – it’s been a great year. We’re looking forward to many more gigs in 2018.
Thanks to everyone who came to my last gig of 2017 at The George Hotel in South Molton last night. It was a great way to end a great year. If you’re on my mailing list I’ll keep you posted on what happens next…
Waiting to go on at The George
In 10 days time I’ll be standing on a hillside overlooking the Obi Obi valley in Australia, back at our shack in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland for the first time in 4 years. I’m so excited to be going – seeing friends, family and goats (trying not to think about the snakes).
We’ll be doing some recording for my next album in a beautiful old Queenslander with my favourite sound engineer Pix Vane-Mason. He recorded my first two albums ‘Stranger Place’ and ‘Keep Walking’ there as well as the vocals for ‘A Bit Of Blue’, and I love the place.
It’s been a wonderful year. I’m so delighted to be playing music again and it’s been so lovely meeting old fans and seeing new faces. Thank you all so much for your fantastic support of my music – I couldn’t do it without you.
As we’re away for Christmas, if you want to buy any gifts direct from us we’re here until 6 December, but you can always order my albums and books anytime from Amazon.co.uk.
I’ll be touring the UK again from February to July next year with a new show which will include some previews of the new songs on my next album. Dates are on my website.
Hope to see you at a gig before long, and in the meantime I wish you all a very happy Christmas.
xx
We’re away in Australia over Christmas so if you want to buy any gifts direct from us we’re here until 6 December, but you can always order Emily’s CDs and books anytime from Amazon.co.uk.