18 years today of playing, singing, touring, writing, travelling the world, having a wild ride with
@thewonder_stuff
It’s my Wonder birthday! 🤩
Thanks fer avin’ me. X
Good morning, and a jolly ‘up yours’ to the dickheads in school who teased me for having a ‘love bite’ on my neck. It’s a pressure wound, assholes, and most violinist have them. I’m proud of mine. 👊🏻
#Strong
#Violinist
Wouldn’t say I’m a geek or anything (she says, wearing her best Star Trek jumper), but labelling the desk for a new mix is one of my all time favourite bits of being in the studio. 🥰
@realjahwobble
- your bass is sounding large. 👌🏻
When did people in the UK start saying ‘Can I get…’ when ordering food. You’ll notice my lack of question mark there, because I don’t actually care, but rest assured, I’ll be sticking with ‘Please may I have’, thank you very much.
#politegirl
Day two of
@thewonder_stuff
rehearsals going VERY well.
We play Leeds on Wed, Sheffield on Thursday, and headline
@ShiiineOn_
On Friday.
You can come if you like. 🤩
The one and only time I’ve ever acknowledged being snapped on stage. It’s all
@MarkGThwaite
’s fault. I saw him prowling around front of stage doing it and I fancied a go.
I’m so easily and willingly led astray... 🙄
Photo by
@nicksayersphoto
#violinist
13 years ago
@mileshuntTWS
sent me this very CD (I just unearthed today) of tracks to learn for my audition with
@thewonder_stuff
. Tempus fugit, my friends.
Big day for me tomorrow!
I finally get to release my new single AND announce my (awesome 😘) new album... which has only taken three years to make! Gosh...
Watch this space, pop pickers!
I’m having a really nice time aboard the
@ShiiineOn_
mini cruise, and we’ve not even left the tied up bit yet! It’s well good.
Soundcheck completed, Miles Hunt and I take the stage at 9pm.
It’s rather lovely hearing Don’t Anyone Dare Give A Damn being played on BBC6Music right now. Gotta love that radio compression. 👌🏻
This was my favourite new track to play on the tour.
@thewonder_stuff
Didn’t reeeeeally envisage being filmed playing solo on top of a very windy
#Edinburgh
Castle for a documentary about the Proclaimers song ‘Sunshine On Leith’ this weekend, but that happened.
Treated family to an impromptu solo of Silent Night on violin, played whisperingly low, w/extra wide vibrato, in the kitchen, whilst everyone’s cook was on, jus coz.
I reminded myself of the last fiddle player on the Titanic.
I think I just needed a gig. 👌🏻
#vibekiller
The best part of being a musician is writing something brand new, and you listen to it over and over, with wine, and think ‘So this is why you don’t have a proper job, good on ya girl’.
Tour rehearsalsh
@thewonder_stuff
are going VERY well indeed! 🤩
It occurred to me that I’ll take some copies of my noo el pea, come out and sign them at the end of each night, say hello to some of you lovely folks. X
Taken 7 years ago backstage at The Cake Shop venue in New York by Brian Appio. Walking to the gig - a passing unknown woman enthusiastically high-fived me in the street whooping “Cool ‘hawk, Girrrrl!”. I thought that was a nice thing, and it still makes me smile now.
My summer of Proclaimering starts next week!
I’ll be joining
@theproclaimers
...
15th June - Melrose
29th June - Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury
6th July - Inverness
14th July - Mouth of The Tyne, Newcastle
20/21st July - Edinburgh Castle
14th Sept - Glasgow Hydro Arena
#violinist
Well! Looks like I just signed a record deal with
@GentlemenRec
for BeNeLux, T-Rec for France, and
@Erica_Nockalls
Music will be releasing my new album for the rest of the world!
(Bubbles just went up my nose with all the excitement!).
Cheers! 🥂🥂🥂
There’s nothing like fan mail from a 7 year old girl to brighten your day. This young lady apparently won’t stop playing my EN2 album and has been inspired to take up cello. Just so long as she doesn’t take up my bad language, we’re laughing.
Wow. 7 years ago today
@thewonder_stuff
shot the music video for ‘Oh No!’ with comedian
@gdavies
, freezing our assets off in a Wolverhampton shopping centre car park, trying not to stall a rocket car.
‘Safe Home’ 20 x 16 inches, oil on canvas board, completed just now.
...and pleasingly, not one single brush used. Take that, society.
Open to offers until Sunday.
Have a top weekend, folks!
Pork pie for breakfast (no plate) at gone 3pm in a knackered old pastel fleece dressing gown. I stood there alone in an empty kitchen, pushing it into my face with my hands, sporting a very distant gaze, wondering where I’d put my standards.
My new single video just broke 5000 plays in less than 48hrs. This is pleasing to me, because these are all organic views, and not bought. (Because buying views is totally a thing).
I’m celebrating this small victory. Cheers! 🥂
Practicing my violin earlier, gazing out of the window, I penned a brief song called ‘Why Are There Four Chickens In The Garden?’, then continued with my boring arpeggios. It cheered up the whole thing. And the song was really good.
New painting, completed today!
‘We Would Go Out Walking...’ 16x12 inches, oil on canvas board.
If anyone would like this piece, please message me with an offer. The highest offer will go towards funding my new record.
Wow, what a weekend. Thank you to the
@ShiiineOn_
lads for having us on their wonderful cruise, and a big massive cheers to all the ocean-going-gig-goers in attendance for a friendly and happy experience. 🛳🖤
Here’s me frightening some train people, glam busking in
#StPancras
station. They told me my drummer could only use hotrods. I reminded him we were a rock n roll band, and fuck the consequences. (Not bin asked back).
Next week it’s Nigel Kennedy at Symphony Hall. Then the week after, I’ll be guesting on violin for The Proclaimers in the same venue. That feels like a nice thing.
My latest privately commissioned piece, ‘J’espionne’ (‘The Spy’) hanging happily in its new home.
I have my paints with me, should anyone fancy their own original oil on canvas painted by yours truly.
#art
#spy
#oilpainting
It’s
@thewonder_stuff
‘s 37th birthday today. The date is based on the first time Malc, Rob, Martin & I stepped into a rehearsal room together. There have been a lotta changes along the way but I am as proud to be in this band today as I ever have been. 👊🏻
Oh, hello. A new glitter-ball stage dress in the making for The Wonder Stuff tour.
This makes me VERY happy. 😊
Upender Mehra - you’re an angel, not a man.
...is one bastard cable short of a perfectly operational mini music studio. When I’m in charge, everything that needs a cable to make it work will come with the cable you need to make it work.
There has been swearing.
It’s my birthday weekend... I’m celebrating! 🤩
And... Dark Music From A Warm Place IS OUT TODAY TOO! It’d be the equivalent of buying me a lovely couple of nice birthday pints if you fancied a copy 🍺🍺
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