I first heard Kathryn Williams’ music when house-sitting in 2004, and playing the CDs which were lying by the CD player – her album Old Low Light fast became one of my favourites, and along with her other album Little Black Numbers has stayed there. ‘Jasmine Hoop’ is from the latter album and, although I perhaps like some of her other songs a bit more, this one is beautiful, and has a proper, fancy video:
For the other Songs for a Sunday, click here.
This song (I Don’t Know by Lisa Hannigan) makes me happy – I’m a sucker for songs with strings on them. And the video is sweet and fun.
If the voice sounds familiar, that might be because she used to sing the backing stuff on Damien Rice’s albums.
Yesterday was the second Book Bloggers’ Meet-Up, and it was great fun. I must confess, I was feeling a little discouraged as the day approached, since so many people had to cancel. Not to blame anyone, of course, but you can’t help feeling a little discouraged when you organise something and it doesn’t go exactly to plan. BUT the eight of us who were able to attend had a great evening, and I really enjoyed it. We’ll be trying another Meet-Up in spring sometime, and I’ll be handing over to someone else to do the (very simple) organisation – let me know if you want to volunteer!
Oh, and I didn’t buy any books – proud of me?
I think I will carry on with this Song for a Sunday idea, as variety is the spice of life and all that. Today’s is by one of my favourite singers, Elin Ruth Sigvardsson (also known as Elin Ruth, or Elin Sigvardsson…) with the song Bang. I’ve chosen it partly because I like the song, but also because I love the story which runs through the video. Enjoy!
I’ve been in London for most of the weekend, from Friday afternoon, so no Weekend Miscellany this week – but I thought I would inaugurate Songs for a Sunday. Of course, there is no reason why shared book taste should lead to shared music taste, and I’m sure it won’t for many of you – in which case, ignore the ensuing series! But I thought it would be fun to share a beautiful song on Sundays, being the day I usually don’t post anything.
So, if you like folk-pop-alternative-easy listening mostly by female artists (which is how I’m going to rather nebulously describe the songs I’ll pick) then you might enjoy the Songs for a Sunday. If you don’t like that… then just wait for the next day, when the books come back!
Kicking off is my favourite track from Vienna Teng’s Inland Territory – ‘Antebellum’.