Facebook / alicejemima.com Hello April, no April Fools here, hope you had a good Easter. I ran 20 miles and took the weekend offline. Now I return with a post I meant to do on Friday when Alice Jemima released a little, intimate cover version of "Nightcall" by Kavinsky (famous for its placing on the Drive soundtrack - something Alice has seemingly found herself listening to recently). Her version, just like earlier takes of Lana Del Rey's " Million Dollar Man ", a seasonal cover of " Driving Home For [...]
Besides a New Year Maida Vale session for BBC Radio 1 and a handful of live gigs we haven’t heard much from Alice Jemima recently. That doesn’t mean that Alice has given it all up to go and live in a nunnery or pick strawberries in a field in southern Spain though. It’s just for now much of what she’s doing is being kept under wraps. However, to tide us over yesterday she uploaded a new cover version to the internet. [...]
Tonight it's the final part of the Devil's three night special on the bands and artists that just missed out on the Devil's coveted nominations for the Glastonbury ETC longlist. Twin Headed Wolf From: Dublin, Ireland Twin Headed Wolf were wound up about not [...]
The deadline for submitting my final three for this years Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition is looming and it's been much harder to make a decision than it was in 2011. The standard of the entries on the list this year were incredibly high. Here are some more bands/artists that have made the decision so difficult. Listen to the following songs and the bands/artists from the list that I've posted over the past few weeks and you can see why the decision has been so difficult. Well [...]
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It's been a while since I last did a Cover Friday, mainly because I've been lazy but also because I haven't come across a lot of covers I've really liked. Saying that, here is a cover I just came across that I do really like. Really simple, elegant cover from Alice Jemima . Million Dollar Man (Lana Del Rey Cover) Play [...]
Lana Del Rey - Reborn To Die No. Title Length 1. Born To Die ( Monsieur Adi Remix) 4:43 2. Off To The Races ( Illy Symphony Remix) 3:57 3. Blue Jeans ( Moonlight Matters Remix) [...]
Facebook Alice Jemima has put her own spin on a few cover tracks already this year, from Lana's " Million Dollar Man " to Strangers " Safe / Pain ", each saw Alice add her own spin (and infinite charm) to the original version, often pared down to essentially Alice's exquisitely soft voice and her delicate guitar patterns, transforming cover songs to almost her own with an impeccable home recorded sound. Alice has now turned her attention to Christmas, with a beautiful version of Chris Rea's "Driving [...]
Following on from yesterday’s immaculate version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Curxes , today we present our second cool yule track, which is once again being premiered here on Breaking More Waves and is offered up as a free download for a limited time as a present to readers. The wonderful Alice Jemima takes on Chris Rea’s Driving Home For Christmas and stamps (albeit softly) her own style all over the song. Uncomplicated guitar work, simple beats and little flourishes of keyboards join with Alice’s unmistakable girlish vocals to give [...]
The next four posts are going to be my Tips for 2013 posts, I know some people find these sort of posts pointless but I'm a geek at heart and geeks do love a list... I know many of you will feel the same, I'm limiting myself to a thirteen acts this year - well it will be 2013 - which meant a few difficult decisions and the acts will be listed alphabetically, starting with four today and then three acts following in each of the next three posts. As with last years posts, my tips aren't [...]
Whilst some of the artists in the Breaking More Waves Ones To Watch for 2013 list such as Chvrches and Haim can be associated with the deafening buzz that kicks off every year for a small number of bands and has nearly the whole music industry (and admittedly ourselves) drooling with over expectant anticipation, today’s artist is somewhat different. But just like those first 2 acts we mentioned in our Ones to Watch 2013 posts, our final choice - Alice Jemima - will be a name that is very familiar to regular readers of this blog. Yet her [...]
Indie Babe of the Week Devon based artist Alice Jemima (no relation to Aunt Jemima) has swiftly stole our hearts in her new single “By Your Side”. Over the the slight strum of The xx-style guitar licks, the crooner tenderly sings about her love with the all the hopes and dreams of the world right in front of her. She offsets any moodiness that the instrumentation tunes in, with the careful precision of her delicate vocals. A new love is beckoning for the artist, and she can’t wait to see how the [...]
We tweeted about this last night, but we thought it deserved a greater degree of permanency than the few minutes of scroll-down visibility that twitter offers. By now the name Alice Jemima will be instantly recognisable to anybody who has paid a passing interest in Breaking More Waves over the last year and a half. We seem to have adopted her as our own internet side kick/project and the reasons for this are quite simple; every song [...]
We tweeted about this last night, but we thought it deserved a greater degree of permanency than the few minutes of scroll-down visibility that twitter offers. By now the name Alice Jemima will be instantly recognisable to anybody who has paid a passing interest in Breaking More Waves over the last year and a half. We seem to have adopted her as our own internet side kick/project and the reasons for this are quite simple; every song [...]
Welcome to another musical smörgåsbord of tunes, freshly stumbled across this very week. As ever there's a lovely WHYD.COM Playlist enabling you to listen or indeed swiftly click next on any track without having to scroll through loads of words, or visit MLD's Whyd page to sample selections from previous weeks. The huge ever-growing SPOTIFY Playlist continues to do just that but this week our Swedish friends only had five of the tunes. PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Lisa Mitchell, Washington, Sarah Blasko, Kate Miller-Heidke Song: Alice Jemima - By Your Side [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Facebook / alicejemima.com/ In a couple of my previous Alice Jemima posts I've mentioned my desire to have some of Alice's music as a physical product to play to my hearts content. Soundcloud / youtube are great but you can't play them in the car / train / anywhere without 3G... thankfully that wait is now over. Though not quite a slab of gorgeous wax (to follow please!) Alice has self-released her debut EP All The Boyfriends as a limited CD which you can buy now via Big Cartel [...]
Having become a firm favourite on the UK's music blogs with 2 Hype Machine Top 20 chart places under her belt as well as radio plays from the likes of Rob Da Bank (Radio 1) plus Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music) and one of her songs being used as the soundtrack to the Yumi fashion range 2012 Autumn / Winter Collection , 19 year old Devon based singer-songwriter Alice Jemima is rapidly establishing herself as an emerging talent to be taken notice of. Yet she has (so far) done this far away from record industry interference, acting [...]
Alice Jemima's appeal may lie in her childlike sweetness but behind those dimples lies a strength and soundness subsequent to her organic talent as a young singer songstress. Hidden behind a fringe, collared indie blouse and sporting black velvet shoes, Alice Jemima's performance permeated effortless indie cool. With distinct sounding vocals resembling the likes of female artists Lisa Mitchell, Julia Stone and Gossling, Alice Jemima is also frustrating in the sense that you wish they would quit being so innocent and coy and just sing! However her reeling sweetness soon had the audience bopping along to [...]
It's been a long time since I last put together a mixtape here on the 'ole Walrus, which is a shame as mixtapes were actually what I started this blog about back in those heady days of 2006. We've done various series of compilations over the years, but one of the most popular continued to be Summer Days Through The Folkish Haze which were full of folk-twinged summery goodness. Well... I think Summer Daze is somewhat of a continuation of that series - which would now be up to vol.4 - except that I've moved away from folk towards summer [...]
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