OK.... so... ive hardly been on myspace.... ive been recording my album... im in love with it... im in love to say the least! ... erm... yeah.... love the album... will talk about that later...

So once again I have been King of shit myspazzy keeping upsies... so i apologise...

Yeassh.... havent been on here for a while... but here I is... apologies...

I've just finished two back to back tours... One with Kami Thompson (my kitty cat)... One with Jon Allen (who will be on Jools Holland tonight)...

So I've been busy since January... When did it become May? Hmmm...

Well... Im about to start another tour on monday with Howard Eliott Payne.... His album is definitely one to get... 

What have i been doing? I did some recording this week... With two producers... one of which I'm going to record my album with... Which doesnt mean no more Andrea recordings, but I'm sure this is a good thing to work with more people... 

I was a finalist in the Glastonbury ETC second year in a row.... didnt win... it would look biased if i had won!... but i only entered to see if I could get more free tickets!! Hell yeah... and i did!!!!

Erm... sad news... I broke up with yellow boy i was seeing... sad times... but again im sure this is for the best... i think... if not... we all learn from these things... Ive been really busy... he thinks im fickle... and i probably am... i dont know what it really means... not sure i want to find out... too much truth... too much fucking perspective as they say in spinal tap... yeah... we werent seeing eachother properly... and we bickered a lot in the end... and he never said he loved me... **if youre reading this, listen to Ed Harcourts "beneath the heart of darkness... reminds me of your freind neil... 2 minutes 27 ... beautiful vocal**  .............found out a lot of things that i thought were sacred and special between us, he had done with other people... girl people... which hurts... sailing little boats on the river being quite an important one to me.. this floatation therapy thing... he - arrgh... doesnt matter...  i dunno if im allowed to talk about this... but heres some truth... Im a very jealous person... quite insecure... paranoid... i dont smoke as much as i used to, but i definitely still smoke too much... ambition killer or what... but erm.. yeah... he didnt lie, he just kept things from me- in case i got the wrong idea... weird isnt it... i think by not telling, gives the impression that theres something more going on... fucking hell... not to meantion the other stuffs... like meeting up with exs whilst i was on tour... *my chest is hurting so im going to stop here*

anyho... yeash... here i am back on myspazz.... it doesnt look much different...

im repairing a disk on my computer... so i cant do much... though ive been writing a lot of songs recently... now that i have nothing else to do other then tour and play... which is nice... very nice... one day ill start making money from this!! hahahahahha!!

anyho... im just screaming into the void that is myspazz blogging... Im on twitter twatter fuckface facebook and myspazz... and ilike...  i twitter a lot... i dont twatter as much!! hahahah- get it TWATter??!!! but erm... yeah... its a lot easier then facebook... i dunno??

im talking bollocks now! take care if youre reading this... it'll soon be summer x x x x  x x x x x x x   x x  x x x x x x x x x x x x x 

Hellooop Chicklets!!

Tis Charlene Soraia, blogging from the fingertips of her poorly body... yeash... today I feel like I've been run over by an 8 wheeled juggernaut... I'm not hungover.. just feeling under the weather... which is great cos the weather has been absolutely fucking shit today...

miaowch...

so yeash... lots has been going on... are you sitting comfortably?



I've just finished a lickle tour with the more then lovely likes of Kamila Thompson and Jon Allen, and it has been very very very amazing... 'mazing.... magick... and mellifluous (isnt that a nice word... mellifluous... kinda like mellotron... and i LOVE them muchly - most of the time...)

you should check them both out:
www.myspace.com/kamithompson (she's my Kami-Kat - she make good snugglings!)
www.myspace.com/jonallenmusic (he's not a cat... he's left handed..)


Jon Allen released his single "In Your Light" today- you should buy it on iTunes cos Amazon doesn't look quite as nice... He's a really nice guy... and he loves tea and biscuits... ginger ones... oh and dime bars... i forgot i liked them y'know... yeah they're good... he writes goodly... and uses grown up pens... I've seen them with my own eyes! *points at eyes*

You can buy his single on iTunes here:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=308004358&s=143444



Yeah so... the tour happened... that was lovely... didn't have to get any trains cos Jon has a car and stuff... I'm sure if enough of us buy his single, he might not charge me for petrol money!! hehehe... (jon if youre reading this, I dont owe you any money... it just might make someone go, aww yeah.. ill buy it... i know charlenes as poor as a cat with no tail... but at least she has a tale to tell!)

and oh my freinds let me (your humble narrator) tell you that tale!!!



CHAPTER ONE

My track "Wishing (You) Well" is being used for the online campaign for the clothes company Hooch! you can check it out here:
http://www.hooch.co.uk/campaign

I'm playing the Glastonbury Unsigned competition on the weekend... that should be fun... if anyone is down pilton ways, drop me a line... we can chill out on the tor with a spliff or something...


CHAPTER TWO

I'm officially supporting Howard Elliot Payne on tour in May and June! He was in a band called the Stands, who I, once upon a time, saw supporting the Coral... i went to all their london shows... the Coral not the stands... but hes good... quite Dylan-esque....

I might be doing another tour before then... which is brilliant!!! but it hasnt been confirmed...Mooch.... if i do... it'll be with Jon Allen... god you guys should buy his stuff, he's been really really kind to me, and is quite inspiring even though our music is completely different... its been really refreshing to meet someone who kinda goes through similar stresses to me... yeah...


CHAPTER THREE

I'm now on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/charlenesoraia


CHAPTER FOUR

If you didn't know, I'm on iLike too
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Charlene+Soraia


CHAPTER FIVE

and just found myself on lastfm... what is this last fm? ...hmmmm....
http://www.last.fm/music/Charlene+Soraia


CHAPTER SIX

Facebook was getting less confusing but they just changed their layout again!! grrr
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlene-Soraia/46574686375?ref=ts


CHAPTER SEVEN

My sister recently left me to look after her lickle puppy dog Rocko... i started to fall in love with him... little half staff half pit bull.. quite crazy... chewed up everything... made a mess... but we had some nice snuggles together... i want a kitty cat...


CHAPTER EIGHT

I've not been very well today... I've had 4 Nurofen, 3 Anadin... about 17 cups of tea... and I'm going to take my mum out for a belated mothers day dinner tonight... Japanese or Italian?


CHAPTER NINE

I'm not very good with these chapter things... there's something else I wanted to say... but I cant remember what it is... sorry...


CHAPTER TEN

thanks for reading this if you have... its been nearly an hour in the making! I think I'm going to lay down for a while... have a cup of tea or something...


goodnight x x x x *bleurg*

Just realised i havent written a blog about Rowing and midsummer moon in June...

so ... here it goes...


ROWING

its about the yellow muse guy bloke boy man stick thing... we stopped seeing eachother for a while and i pined after him for a long long time... this song is a plea really.. pathetic isnt it...? we're kinda half seeing eachother again now... but now we bicker... any advice? ive heard getting back with someone is never a good thing.... cos its going backwards not forwards... miaowch... my brain has been hurting...

Yeash... this song is basically about some more thing we did/wanted to do/ should have done/ might do one day... god knows... maybe i shouldnt be writing a blog cos im feeling a bit muddied by mauve and miaow... hmmm... how honest of me...

There was another verse to this song about sitting in and reading eachother books about existentialism and sartre... but i thought it was a bit too hardcore y'know... bit of a tongue tying word.... but fun!


MIDSUMMER MOON IN JUNE

ok firstly.... i wasnt sure whether to write June like Joon... but i think i made the right decision in the end.... June... i know what it is...

it is played on a mandolin... the swirls are an e-bowed mandolin with a slide.... couldnt help myself!!!

June is the time of the Summer solstice... I usually go to stonehenge and sing the sun up off my face with my pa and whoever comes....

This song is about what i want someone to do when i die... bit sinister... or weird i know... but erm... near to stonehenge there was a wooden henge... built out of wood to remind us that things come to an end *gets sad after thinking about first half of blog* .... erm,,,

people would travel to the Stonehenge and in the morning make their way to the river and follow it up to the wooden henge... something to do with the dead... i watched this amazing show on it.. i love all that mythological stuff... i dont believe it all, but ive been brought up to accept things like that... if it feels right... all that stuff... and yeah.... you wouldnt believe it coming from bloody sydenham.... south east poxy london.... grr....

anyho... yeah... so when i die, burn me, take me to the stonehenge, leave me out under the moon till the sun comes up.... then take me to the Woodenhenge and scatter me...

"...and for my epitaph write that I don't mind... because I really do not mind..."

that lyric just reflects the fact that i dont seem to care about decisions and decision making...

Wish i knew what i wanted now as aposed to what i eventually want...

miaow...

thanks for reading it... cant think of anything else to say....

bye bye bye x x x x x x x x x x x ................. X

So, i thought I'd do my conclusion before the release of my last ep and before i go on my my next tour...


I said I was going to pull an all nighter on the last night to get my train back... well... that never happened... i pulled all nighter... yeah... it was about 2 days of no sleep and complete debauchery.... of the most humane kind... but it was good...

after a few days of hanging at Stephen Fretwell's place, i decided to leave... but i didnt want to go home, so i went to my dads in Wales... that was a nice come down off the tour...

yeah....

i skimmed through my last blog and im soo sorry for all the spelling mistakes!! i shouldnt type so fast... my brain runs away with me... or at least my fingers do... not rudely...

erm.. yeah....

so the tour was brilliant.. would love to do a song with Stephen and/or another tour... he was really lovely.... I'm doing another tour with a boy called Jon Allen and a girll called*buggar ive forgotten*.... but hopefully by the end of this new year ill be able to do my own tour... that would be magical...

i think id have sausage rolls, tea, whiskey (jamesons), bananas and chocolate on my rider.... hehehe...... maybe not the bananas and chocolate... definatly the whiskey and sausage rolls tho... yeah.... them or a nice sandwich.... ploughmans?? hmm... im hungry...

so my conclusion.... it was good.... i highly recommend discovering new cities and touring and doing crazy things... and just... literally.. playing it by ear...

heres some pictures on this linkle thingle... http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.editAlbumPhotos&albumID=2604790&MyToken=c2969f43-2ef9-409d-ae5c-630a35d81559


And i think that's it for now...

bye bye x x x x x x x x


(i was meant to post this hours ago, but i forgot to actually press preview and post button?!?!)

Yes yes I know I haven't kept up to date with blogging the tour, but as they say, no news is good news...

And good news it is!!! Well not all... I'm on a train to Manchester for the gig... Miaow... Feeling a bit blue... I've got Stephen a leather bound book to say thankyou, but done tell him cos I doubt I'll give it to him til I leave to go to my hotel... He's been really lovely to me this whole tour... I'm gonna miss his Ginger face... And I'm gonna miss James too... He's the tour manager and a fuckin legend... He also has a baby boy called harry harrington... What a name!!! Hawwweeee Hawwwwinttonnn.... Miaow...

Yeah what's been going on? Well erm.. Err... These mightnot be in order but firstly LEeds was fuckin awesome!! I saw some old freinds whom I hadn't and dadnt didn't and shouldve seen in agggggges!!! So thankyou to those boys for coming down... Especially Paul and Adam... We must meet up more often!!! 3 people from the gig found me in a bar down the rod- sorry if I seemed a bit wasted, I was coming up if you can understand that... Yeah... So Leeds was great...

Have I told you about Nottingham?? That's was brilliant!! Met these 3 guys who had a couple drinks with me and Stephen after the show... One guy has done every job you can think of and now manages a cinema in Nottingham.. Yeah.. He didn't like harry potter, but he looked like professor Snape...

Oh my lord I met a girl who also loves alan rickman!!!! She's made a podcast with me on it?!!! It's mad!!! I can't copy and paste on an iPhone so I can paste the URL, but I might go and find it, write down the linkle on my armickle and typickle it in...ickle....

Errr Birmingham was lovely... Really nice mellow croud... Tho a little sleepsome... Brighton was a couple nights ago and that was awesome-ish... Great reaction, but I coulve played a bit better... Miaow... I was home last night... London... Luminaire.... What a lovely venue... Met a lot of people but one question

Why did loadsa people ask where I was from?

I'm from Sydenham... South east London... I don't sound as south east as my neighbours and associates, but I am a Londoner... Stephen and my muse both tell me off for not saying done did was and weren't right... Wright.... Write... Arrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!

Miaow kittycats....

I gotsa be up for my train home at 9 in the morning tomorrow!!! I forgot there as such a time!! I think I'll just pull an all nighter tonight... Seems like my only option... Then sleep on the train... Hmmm

I'm going to upload all my pictures when I get back home.. Thy aren't great cos they're on my phone, but it's better then nought!!

I can't think of anything else to say except I might go and buy a cuppa tea and biscuits..... Yuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Until then sweetpeas....
Ciao miaow xxxxxxx xxxxxxx

Yes yes I know I haven't kept up to date with blogging the tour, but as they say, no news is good news...

And good news it is!!! Well not all... I'm on a train to Manchester for the gig... Miaow... Feeling a bit blue... I've got Stephen a leather bound book to say thankyou, but done tell him cos I doubt I'll give it to him til I leave to go to my hotel... He's been really lovely to me this whole tour... I'm gonna miss his Ginger face... And I'm gonna miss James too... He's the tour manager and a fuckin legend... He also has a baby boy called harry harrington... What a name!!! Hawwweeee Hawwwwinttonnn.... Miaow...

Yeah what's been going on? Well erm.. Err... These mightnot be in order but firstly LEeds was fuckin awesome!! I saw some old freinds whom I hadn't and dadnt didn't and shouldve seen in agggggges!!! So thankyou to those boys for coming down... Especially Paul and Adam... We must meet up more often!!! 3 people from the gig found me in a bar down the rod- sorry if I seemed a bit wasted, I was coming up if you can understand that... Yeah... So Leeds was great...

Have I told you about Nottingham?? That's was brilliant!! Met these 3 guys who had a couple drinks with me and Stephen after the show... One guy has done every job you can think of and now manages a cinema in Nottingham.. Yeah.. He didn't like harry potter, but he looked like professor Snape...

Oh my lord I met a girl who also loves alan rickman!!!! She's made a podcast with me on it?!!! It's mad!!! I can't copy and paste on an iPhone so I can paste the URL, but I might go and find it, write down the linkle on my armickle and typickle it in...ickle....

Errr Birmingham was lovely... Really nice mellow croud... Tho a little sleepsome... Brighton was a couple nights ago and that was awesome-ish... Great reaction, but I coulve played a bit better... Miaow... I was home last night... London... Luminaire.... What a lovely venue... Met a lot of people but one question

Why did loadsa people ask where I was from?

I'm from Sydenham... South east London... I don't sound as south east as my neighbours and associates, but I am a Londoner... Stephen and my muse both tell me off for not saying done did was and weren't right... Wright.... Write... Arrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!

Miaow kittycats....

I gotsa be up for my train home at 9 in the morning tomorrow!!! I forgot there as such a time!! I think I'll just pull an all nighter tonight... Seems like my only option... Then sleep on the train... Hmmm

I'm going to upload all my pictures when I get back home.. Thy aren't great cos they're on my phone, but it's better then nought!!

I can't think of anything else to say except I might go and buy a cuppa tea and biscuits..... Yuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Until then sweetpeas....
Ciao miaow xxxxxxx xxxxxxx

Well hello!

heres my 3rd blog part of the tour thing... and yeah... what have i done where have i been... well.. i got lost in liverpoool... not too lost... but a little bit... then i looked up to see where i was and i was outside the cavern... i did cry... a little bit... a lott-a-bit actualy... i felt like i had arrived...

i checked in to the premiew inn.. yeah... not the height of glamour, but hey, they had twinings tea... i didnt complain... the gig that night was fucking awesome too!!! i met a guy mike who supported as well... his musical name is LazyBones.... im gonna find him and put him in my top freinds... his stuff was beautiful with pastoral in a 60s psychedelic hue... really nice guy... also Carolin was beautiful too...

after liverpool i went to my pappis in wales.. im not welsh despite the jones part of my name... my dad recently moved there with his wife... erm... technically my last name should be santaniello which is my fathers surname... but if he got his dads name then my last name would be Khadim... im partly italian partly indian for those who dont/didnt know... im very proud of my Engerdillally roots...

erm... i went out with my dad and his wife on my night off... and then the next night we drove to bristol.. that was a great gig too... my freind elliott came and took this crazy picture of me and stephen... we look weird?? ill upload it and make it my profile picure.. its funny...

erm?? yeah... bristol was good.. i went back to my dads and then the next i got the train to oxford...

now i like oxford... i really like oxford... the people are very mellow... but they were there to see stephen not me.. but erm.. yeah... the city is beautiful... ive been there before... its really nice... so... lovely.. i wouldnt mind living there for a little while... very inspiring scenes... there was this big hill by george street i wanted to climb, but i didnt have enough time... i will go there in spring and sit on it with a red apple and a picnic... looks like a nice hill..

erm... so oxford was good... then i got driven home... and i stayed in my own bed lasdt night... no-one was in my house and i got quite upset and lonely... moreso then before... mainy because veryone i know and love most was under the same strip of sky as me for one night, but not there with me...

miaow.. i had a little cry... but after a little chat on the phone i felt a bit betterer...

i have a sniffly nose today, i might go sweat it out in the sauna... or the steam room... mmmmmmm with the YOOO-KA-LIP-TUS!!!

*yawns*.... charleeneee is sleepeee... im gonna gonna... i had lotsa thing to talk about... but erm... i forgotten them...

OH I WENT TO THE BEATLES MUSEUM!! OMG!! i fucking loved it!!!!! it was amazing... !!! *remembers i already said that bit... hmmm...

should i delete the bit about liverpool? i think ive already saided it...

anyho...

im gonna go and sleep a lickle... or go and do something... might sleep...

Waaaaaaall.EEEEEEEEE

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*mew*

Well hello there!!!!

Fancy seeing you in a place like this...

Well, it's pissing it down in Liverpool, but I don't mind... because I can finally say I've been to the Beatles museum... and yes... i boughted loadsa memorabilia's... i bought myself an umbrella- ella; some little things that i dont know which or whated they are/is were/want them to be, but i do like them... muchly like a bukley bee... i also bought a metal thing to stick on my bedroom wall... (you guys should see my room... looks like I've shat an acid trip... "looks" not smells" so no cheeky comments!! hahaha!!!)

SO YEASH!! i left the beatles museum and found refuge from the rain in the Apple store!! god bless the apple store.... i feel at home here... the scouse accent is really sexy... and so is the smell of mac equipment...in fact, the two together makes me want to sit on a towel... and not in a "im wet cos of the rain" way... though i am slightly...

?!?! *miaowch*

Erm... i had a fucking awesome gig in Glasgow t'other niiiight met some awesome people...!!! newcastle was really good too... Edinburgh was a little sleepy... but alas... yeah... liverpool tonight....!!

everyone seems to like my new square badges- YESH THEY ARE SQUARE!!! i really like that fact!!! hehehe...

erm.. what else can i tell you ... ermm..... ive got limited internet access as wifi is expensive, but i should be getting my iphone tomorow.... uckily the apple store have free wifi, so im raping it as much i can!

my card got frauded just before the tour :'( so i wasnt able to get me an iPhone... i did actually get given an iPhone from Apple cos ive done some things for them... but i sold it on ebay to buy the new one when it came out... but i spent the money!!!

one of my mates said he thinkles im the only person who has ever had an iPhone and not opened it!

...is this true?



i feel like im really rushing to type everything down before it leaves my head, so im sorry if i sound... erm?? erratic?? is erratic the right word? i dont know...

erm... theres lots of erms on this blogs too, so apologies for that...



i thought i saw a ghost the other night... that was nice... didnt feel so alone... it does get a little lonesome on youre own.. but luckily ive had my ipod for company and my imaginary freinds...

Ive been listening to David Bowie today.... as well as the Beatles... but... erm... yeah... i really like this song called After All on the Man Who Sold the World album...

again lyrically... it is beautiful.... feel free to read it.... and then listen to it... its like?? erm... "they" are still children at heart.. even though they are growing up... theyre literally just taller children... im a tall child.. i think... im definatley five at heart... i feel like that right now...


"Please trip them gently, they don't like to fall (Oh by jingo)
There's no room for anger, we're all very small (Oh by jingo)
We're painting our faces and dressing in thoughts from the skies from paradise
But they think that we're holding a secretive ball-
Won't someone invite them, they're just taller children, that's all, after all

Man is an obstacle, sad as the clown (Oh by jingo)
So hold on to nothing, and he won't let you down (Oh by jingo)
Some people are marching together and some on their own
Quite alone
Others are running, the smaller ones crawl
But some sit in silence, they're just older children
That's all, after all

I sing with impertinence, shading impermanent chords, with my words
I've borrowed your time and I'm sorry I called
But the thought just occurred that we're nobody's children At all, after all
Live till your rebirth and do what you will (Oh by jingo)
Forget all I've said, please bear me no ill (Oh by jingo)

After all, after all"


Waaaaa... what a sweet song.... beautifully crafted on the production front too...
theres so much colour to this ld sound... fuck quantising... and fuck compressing sound to buggary. fuck logic... fuck garageband... fuck it all... fuck protools some what... i wish i had nice analog equipment...

it's just so beautiful...

i just realised im hardcorely hogging this lovely iMac...

better be off...
after all...
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