dear friends,
i have uploaded a 'christmas' song called "our house". i had a cold when i recorded it, which is seasonal i think, but i hope you enjoy it anyway. it's basically a little song about not giving up. 2009 has been a shaky year for many it seems, and to any of my friends who have found things a bit tough lately, this is for you. we should look out for one another, and keep our hopes high. let 2010 be the year we take care...of each other, of ourselves.
all my love
R xxx
ps. this song is also dedicated with a lot of love to my London friends who are Christmas orphans this year X

friends, 

For full text and further press reviews please visit the Press Section of my website.
Rebecca x

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"It is often found that modern education in The West tends to cultivate the faculty of criticism without regard to the development of human emotion. This tends to destroy man's capacity for reverence and his faculty for appreciation. Children in the west are taught to criticize rather than to admire and love and appreciate. In order to appreciate much training is required. A training in sympathy and feeling as well as a training of the reasoning faculty. The music of Africa and The East is usually ignored in the west. The main reason for this is that the western mind is trained above all to be critical. The critically trained mind demands that it have before it those forms to which it is accustomed. When these are absent it cannot find a standard by which to criticize and to contemplate and it becomes lost in the nothingness it sees before it. But the mind that has been trained to feel can by means of the emotions go behind an unfamiliar form and touch its soul." Musharef Khan

Hi there,

I have added another song called 'My Dream of You'. I think it may be my favourite song from the album, hope you like it.

I want to say thanks so much to everyone who came to my gig in London last week. it was so, so nice to see you all - thanks for making a girl feel so welcome, i will be back to you soon, very soon.

Also, thanks to everyone who came to my gigs in the Czech Republic, and also to the following people - Jens & Christel Uhl for their kindness; Jana, Marek & Zuzana for their hospitality, Jana in Brno, and the wonderful Erik who transtlated my lyrics into Czech and read them out so beautifully before each song. What an honour!

I'm taking a few weeks off to refuel....read lots of books, (poetry and short stories mostly, given my attention span), spend the weekends in the countryside, play with weird scales on the piano.....and soak up all the beautiful music that is already out there drifting in the ether.....But there may be an interesting Dublin gig in July so keep an eye out. Also, there's the Biatch first birthday in Bewleys tomorrow night, don't forget!

I'm also trying to cut back on this myspace malarkey. It's beginning to make me a little queasy. What's with all this poisonous pop-up advertising?! Too irksome for words.

That's all for now i guess.

Enjoy the fleeting summer,
Rebecca x

ps. I have added a recent interview with The Event Guide to the press section of my website.

dear friends

just wanted to let you know that my album ’chameleon blues’ is now available for you to buy. you can get it from my website www.rebeccacollins.net (which has had a little facelift - hope you like it) and it will also be up on itunes, emusic etc. very soon. you can also get it from tower records and road records in dublin, bpm records in waterford, and all the other good music stores around the place when i get the time in a day or two to go knocking on their doors. if anyone out there owns a record store and wants to stock a few copies, let me know!

so what about this record? well, it was recorded last january in the wonderful bunker studio in brooklyn by my talented friend aaron nevezie. playing on the album are some of my other very talented friends: seán carpio (drums) simon jermyn (bass) justin carroll (keys) joachim badenhorst (tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet) nir felder (guitar) john davis (synth bass) kate ellis (cello). we originally recorded it live in studio over two crisp new york days. when i took the recording home, i basically ’tweaked and freaked’ for a couple of months and then brought it all back to aaron to mix it. such fun.

i don’t know what else to say about it. i learned a lot about walking all those fine lines that exist when making a record. in the end i don’t think i made a perfect record (perfection doesn’t really interest me) but i think i made a real record, with lots of humanity, expression and energy on it. that’s how i like my music, and that’s why i like my album!

i hope you like it too.
lots of love
rebecca x

ps. good lord! i forgot to mention that myself and my band are playing a launch gig tonight in Crawdaddy in Dublin. doors 8pm adm €12. you can buy the album there, and come and hear how we like to go crazy!

Friends,

Just to let you know that my album 'Chameleon Blues' will be released on April 8th on my label Mutineer. To celebrate, myself and my esteemed musician friends will be touring at the start of April (see dates on my page) and we will play an official launch gig at Crawdaddy in Dublin on the night of the 8th. We collectively vow to tear it up to the best of our abilities. Oh yeah!

I was going to talk a bit about the album here, but I think at this stage, it's time to stop talking about it and let it go out into the world and (hopefully) make some friends of its own. There will be some official blurb with lots of adjectives about it on my website soon so that should satisfy the more curious among you....

As an independent musician (as opposed to what i'm not sure....co-dependent? captive?) I now begin the happy task of getting other people to sell my music for me. Never been too great at that but sure, here we go anyway. However, just so you know the album, as with all my music, will always and forever be directly available to buy from me! So just go to my website or message me or dispatch a carrier pigeon with a little note and i will get back to you, perhaps not immediately, but as promptly as humanly possible, and without fail. That's a promise.

Til we meet again...

Rebecca xx

amigos,
here's something to (hopefully) put a smile on your faces. it's a sweet little song from the movie 'seven brides for seven brothers', i guarantee you'll be humming it for days...i guess you may not thank me for that in the end. i watched musicals a LOT when i was a kid. desperately uncool, i know.
anyhoo, in this clip the fellas are missing their ladies and shortly after this scene they have the bright idea that the only way to solve the problem is to kidnap them. not very pc but sure, what the hey!
yes, these men are professional ballet dancers by the way.
enjoy!
R x


ps. no smart ass comments about men sleeping with sheep...