JosieJo's Great Big Pair
of Tips
Christmas Show 2013
This is the JosieJo Show and
each show contains two great tracks from two different artists, bands
or other musical brilliantness type people for your aural delight.
You deserve a bit of you time and I think you deserve a bit more
right now so gather your nearest and dearest round the laptop, PC,
tablet or other mobile device for a new seasonal
tradition...listening to The JosieJo Show. Heck you can even listen
on your own and guess what? I'm giving you four great tracks in this
show. We'll start with a tribute to the late, great Nelson Mandela
and then launch into three Christmas tunes that you may not have
heard before, but may well become your traditional treats. It's the
Christmas JosieJo Show, dontcha know?
So let's first give you the
super wonderful world music talent of Paula Ryan. Paula was born in
the Irish town of Colnmel. I stayed there this year and as far as I
could see, as well as being stunningly beautiful, is a town built on
the production of cider. As you can imagine it has a great tradition
of live music and an incredible disappearing/reappearing mountain as
the weather descends and lifts again. Paula has been producing music
for many a year now and her style is incredibly diverse. Sometimes
her sound is pure irish folk, then the next track will be good old American country, but the track I'm going to play has African roots
and an almost worshipful feel, like a hymn sung in church.
She sent me this track “Lion
In A Cage” just a few days after Nelson Mandela died and I meant to
include it in a show just after his funeral, but I believe that it is
still relevant now and will be as long as people remember the man and
continue to celebrate his life through music. I never had the
opportunity to meet him, but I was in the same room as him several
times and I can honestly say that the effect of his presence seemed
to change even the air we breathed. He seemed to invoke a sense of
peace and calm over everyone present and this track really conveys
that golden freedom. I have no idea how Paula creates these sounds
and backgrounds to this track. Her website talks of tongue drums and
darabukas and Jo, my percussion friend has just told me what those
are, but quite frankly I just love the whole world feel of this music
and this track is really up-lifting. Please enjoy Paula Ryan and
“Lion in a Cage”
https://soundcloud.com/paularyan/lion-in-a-cage
Awesome man and a wonderful
tribute I think. Paula recently performed that track as part of a
Mandela tribute and all accounts talk of it being very moving. So do
you fancy a Christmas track? Do ya?
Well Beartown Zodiac are a
Bournemouth band that have a Charity Christmas track out and I'm
simply joyous to play you it. Beartown Zodiac are a four piece
headed up by David Bird-Hawkins and I discovered them because I loved
the fact that many of their songs were written whilst David travelled
the world with his white, flying-V ukele and “Mountains in my
Sunglasses” still rates as one of my absolute favourite tracks
discovered in 2013. They also feature on a very exciting 10 inch
vinyl compilation with three other artists from the Bournemouth
recording studios of The Burrow and it's called The Burrow
Compilation. However Beartown Zodiac have produced this Christmas
track “Keep Christmas Just For Us” as a Charity single for Save
The Children and it's available right now on their website
www.beartownzodiac.co.uk
so if you need one more wonderful present get yourself to there and
purchase it for a good cause. It's a sweet track and perfect if you
want to tell someone what they mean to you. Christmas comes with all
sorts of pressures and stress, but this track will allow you a little
time out to just care. Beartown Zodiac and “Keep Christmas Just
For Us”
https://www.facebook.com/beartownzodiac/app_6452028673
aww sweet! Are you fed up
of Christmas yet? Are you? Fancy an antidote song? This next track
is from JosieJo Show favourites The Penguin Party and I'm playing it
because I can. Also I told Dave Milligan, who wrote this song about
the fact that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas and he included that
fact in this track. It's cheery in its tune and grumpy in its
sentiment. The Penguin Party and “It's Only Christmas, It'll Soon
Be Over”
Genius. Go to
penguinparty.bandcamp.co.uk to get your free download of that and
check out their facebook page or mine to get a link to a great and
very funny video of the song. You'll never be able to look at a
cuddly penguin in the same way again after that. Righto. Getting
Christmassy yet? Here's the mighty Stonehead from Norfolk England.
Stonehead is a sculptor and musician of great talent and he can
genuinely create anything out of pewter so if you have a belt buckle
commission then visit his site www.badge-supplies.co.uk.
Ok Folks. Get yourselves set for tuneful punk, and the Christmas
song that every over forty- year old really wants to sing. Stonehead
and “Gimme Toys”
https://sites.google.com/site/stoneystradebadgesupplies/
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