I’m hiding out in a vegan cafe in Wiesbaden. After a rather harsh 6am start this morning and a five hour train journey, it was still morning when I arrived at tonight’s venue: left activist space, the Info Club. The space looks lovely. There’s a large banner above the bar that reads “no human is …
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Hello everybody! I am so excited to share the fist song off my new album with you.. The song was recorded with at Middlefarm Studios with Peter Miles down in Devon. I’m so happy to have worked with some amazing musicians on this and can’t wait to share more of album with you shortly. I’ve …
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Roxanne de Bastion’s second studio album, Heirlooms & Hearsay, will be launched in London at the legendary ROUNDHOUSE (Sackler Space) on May 3rd 2017. Tickets available here
I enjoyed every second of that half hour. For me, 2016 will forever be the year I got to play Glastonbury, hopefully for the first time. I couldn’t share it publicly, but the opportunity of playing at THAT festival was hanging in front of me like an illusive carrot for a good six months… maybe …
“Making it is just the start of your problems, how to sustain career for 10 – 20 years is what it’s really about” Hal Ritson, FAC Board Director and creator of The Young Punx, shared his experience with a group of FAC members on a rainy Tuesday evening. Hal is a songwriter, music producer & …
I’m very excited to share my new song TRAIN TRACKS with you. It’s a bit of a surprise release, but with the Glastonbury gig ahead, I just wanted to share some new music with you and give you a small taste of what album number 2 will sound like. It’s a song and sentiment close …
This is the first full weekend I have spent at home since the beginning of February. As London is showing itself from its best side, it’s chocolate side, as one might say in German, with sunlight streaming into the living room, I’m reflecting on the many lessons learned over the past ten weeks. 1) At …
Following my talk on Female is Not a Genre (How the decentralization of the music industry is a good thing for gender equality), I’ve been featured in FAZ.de this morning (national German newspaper): I’m performing at Re:publica on tomorrow evening – Stage 3, 21:00. Sorry I’ve not had a chance to tell you about my …
The Germany tour is nearly over, as is February 2016, all 29 days of it, and not a single blog post composed to accompany my travels. This is due to the fact that I have never before commenced a tour with a jet-lag. Over the last 20 days, I’ve flown to Amsterdam and back, flown …
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make On Sunday the 21st of May I got to see Paul McCartney live in concert and for that reason alone, 2015 has been the best year of my life. I appreciate that you may role your eyes at that statement, …
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