Ciao!

Last night was great. Thanks to all my beautiful musicians, you were all fantastic, don't tink I heard a bad word about any of you, you really were all great.

So thank you to:

Daisy B
Holly Dearden
Ciara Clifford
Charly Morris
Jess Morgan
Charlie Jeffries

It was Charlie J's first ever gig, although she totally smashed it, and noone would've guessed it! We were talking about if that's how she starts then London better watch out over the next 3-6 months - go go Charlie!!

Thanks to all management types for letting me have your artists - so cheers Steve, nice meeting you. And big love to my lovely friends Freddie and Al.

A gargantuan gratitudinal to the sound man that is Jupiter Jam - I wouldn't be able to do any of it without you you are my saviour! (help! Joooooop - which fader is it for the intermission music? Aaaarrrggh help, what jack to XLR? huh! What aaarrrgggghhh!) Yeah i'll recapitulate - what the hell would I do without you??!!!

Obviously thanks to everyone at the Macbeth - especially Mark for letting me use the space (it would be nice if you turned up at some point though!), Jessie for smiles and waves and last but not least to Theresa and Harvey for keeping everyone happy at the bar.

AND OF COURSE THANKS TO ALL YOU GUYS WHO CAME AND WATCHED AND LISTENED AND ENJOYED AND CLAPPED AND CHEERED, IT WOULD BE A BIT LONELY WITHOUT YOU!!

next Jericho will be the 10th Feb with Daisy B coming back in a slightly earlier slot so more of you can catch her, and we're also hoping that so see you all on the 10th

This Sunday 13^th Jan:

jericho – almost acoustic chillage for recovery from the weekend down at The Macbeth

This month is all about the ladies, and we have 6 beautiful girls playing this Sunday:

Daisy B

Charly Morris

 (Le Tetsuo)

Jess Morgan

Ciara Clifford

Charlie Jeffries(only just started doing solo stuff so no songs up – I like her.  She's American and sounds a bit like Courtney Love!)

Check out their profiles, have a listen and then come down to check them out @ The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP

Free live music from some lovely ladies – what more could you want for a Sunday night!!

See you Sunday

Esther xx

Catharsis and The Unlikely Muse

You were there in my thoughts even before we had met,

and now you're the one I can never forget.

Always I knew it, right from the start

that this day would come; we'd be torn apart.

We were always the same - you were a mirror of me.

But the glass is now blank where reflection should be.

Though you know that I love you but can only jest,

I believe you feel more than you do for the rest.

My pulsating heart, that never was whole,

was torn from my body removing my soul.

This parting gift that you gave to me -

the gaping void where you used to be.

In my life now are only the music and art -

reversed representing the head and the heart.

And in the raging battle between these two

the bad choice is music, the one that is you.

But now I know music can never be wrong,

As there in your heart's where I'll always belong.

EF - 7^th Jan '08

This is my favourite stone roses song - if you can pick a favourite from one of the greatest bands of all time!

They just played it on XFM so I'm just informing you of the words to this wonderful song!!

Until sally I was never happy
I needed so much more
Rain clouds oh they used to chase me
Down they would pour
Join my tears
Allay my fears
Sent to me from heaven
Sally cinnamon
You are my world

I pop pop pop blow blow bubble gum
You taste of cherryade
There is something here you must show me
From what you are made
Sugar and spice
And all things nice

Sent to me from heaven
Sally cinnamon
You are my world

Your eyes are gazing back from
Every little piece of glass
You seem to smile from every place
Sally cinnamon
You are my world

Then I put the letter back in
The place where it was found
Its a pocket in a jacket
On a train in town

Sent to her from heaven
Sally cinnamon
Your her world

Oh YES!

A poem to call your own

Your voice for me like an earthquake
Loud and strong and unperturbed
30 decibels or more, to ensure your point is made
However loud your voice maybe, you will not always be heard
At times like this just call me up, and I will make you smile
Thanking you for letting me stay a while

And when you hang up on the phone
Please remember you're never alone
A second will be all it takes,
Ill come rushing to your side and catch you by surprise
Ill grab you from the sadness
And look into your eyes
Ill tell you it will be alright, that everything will be fine
Ill put a smile back on your face, just as you have done mine.

So when I am gone and almost forgot
Come and see me in my squat
Ill cook and clean and laugh and joke,
With me and my friends and some random bloke
No TV only the guitar, the one true entrance to my heart
Not through my mouth or through my eyes
My ears are the way inside.
Play me a song and you will see
How much better you have made me.

To Esther
Thank you so much for allowing me into your life, for this I am most grateful. You are with me always as my shadow or reflection. Every time I look around or at my reflection I will see you radiant face looking at me. I will know everything will turn out right.
Thank you so much
Love always
Chris

If you're not doing owt, why not come down to cellar door on Sunday 28^th October @ The Edinburgh Cellars, 125 Newington Green Road, N1 4RA

Milli Moonstone

Johnny Ryder

Mark Mathews

Cheka

£3 entry or message me for £1.50 guestlist.

Esther xx

We Have No Stars

I gazed tonight at the crescent moon:
Beautiful, yet incomplete
Mars and Venus by my side.
We have no stars
Only those intertwined Gods of Love and War
Sitting by me in my London, Lonely.

Now I see them, my friends,
One by one shining in the darkness.
There once was one, Bright but now exinguished;
Gone to play with Mars, Where she belongs

But Venus is still with me, whispering,
"There is not enough love!
That in your heart must be missing from another;
So let her play with Mars, where she belongs."

We are lonely, we have no stars.
But those that remain are brighter,
Stronger now through that absence.
So let her play with Mars;
Let her stay with Mars.
Venus and the moon, we need her no more.