Around 1:30am early this morning I fell through the door after touring the show Rainbow Heart around the UK, a self-booked and self-promoted series of gigs which sought to relate the whole coming-out thing and the search for gender and sexual identity.
What Jessie Did Next...
...being the inane ramblings of a mundane Yorkshire bird.
Tag: bleeding obvious
Last March I wrote about a project which had been a rework of a direction that didn’t sit right post-Debut. A lot has happened since then, and tomorrow (31st July) my new album Rainbow Heart hits online stores, with the show premiere on Saturday 12th August in Wakefield. It’s a coming-out album, yet not specifically my coming-out album.
Now the immediate post-album launch haze has died down and I’ve got the bug back, I’ve returned to the studio for a couple of projects.
Three weeks to go until the album launch gig (got your tickets yet?) and a little pile of press coverage has come in – mostly positive, the odd bit of “yeah she dropped the ball at that point”, but generally damn fine. Colour me pleased!
It is done, sent off, completed. The studio is once again quiet and tidy – I’ve even managed to hoover the rug. Even so, it’s littered with soldered makeshift instruments and lyrics scribbled, printed and sellotaped to random surfaces: they adorn the shelves, the mic stands, even the back of my chair. But my first solo album is finished and out of the door – it’s a wrap!
Having a bit of spare time on my hands over Christmas last year I started writing music again, all leading up to an album release on 17th November 2016, a year after the first song was written. It’s a bit of a mix of genres and styles, but I play most things on there, involving talented pals when it feels right.
You can find out more about it (including a rather nice interview written by student journo Andy Carson) over on The Bleeding Obvious website.
There’s also a Facebook page, and a Twitter stream – of course there is, this is 2016…
Yorkshire lass, born-and-bred. Photographs stuff, writes software, makes music, cooks, dances round the kitchen. Happy lesbinum and parent to two.
Musician, composer and producer, under the monicker of The Bleeding Obvious.
Regularly seen performing live. Been on TV and radio in various capacities.
I photograph for Hotfox Media and you’ll find my work in lots of publications.
I’m on Twitter, Flickr, and Instagram.
By day I work as an IT contractor writing web apps for the big guns. More details about all that on LinkedIn.
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