Hello there ! This is my first post as a Quiksilver woman! yeay. Things are great at the moment. I am about to release my album The Philosophy Tree on itunes in the UK, USA, Australia and France. It will be on itunes by the end of January! Its really strange and exciting as yesterday I was singing Nelly Furtado’s song ‘try’ and I thought I would go and look for her on itunes and buy the song as I realised I don’t have it. Then I saw her ‘itunes essentials’ album and checked out her biography…and it has me listed as one of her ‘contempories’ alongside Dido, Amy Winehouse, Jem! Mad and unexpected!

I am putting together another album called ‘Lost songs’ to be released at the same time which will be 12 of my many many songs that I have written (well over 100) that didnt get to see the light of day as they didn’t fit on my first album soundwise. These will be songs that are very special to me. Im so excited to be releasing another album even though this isn’t strictly my second album- that is still in the making! I spoke to Yoad, who recorded the whole of Jem’s first album and he likes a song that I have written to a track he sent over to me. We have written a few together and he is sooo talented and comes up with the most crazy keyboard sounds and scales! Love him!!

Looking forward to my band getting back as well..some of them are travelling at the moment. We will get together and Jam and do some more writing and recording in Jan/Feb with a great new engineer and producer called Clive Martin! If you haven’t seen the links We have a gig this week in Camden Town by the Canal so I am practicing some new songs on my beloved Hummingbird (thanks Gibson for the free guitar!!) and Dave Harewood is accompanying me on Djembe, which Is my favourite drum of all drums, (and Dave is my favourite companion, ha ha!) and Hils has been round my house going through new songs and harmonising with me..sweeeet!

Spk soon

Ellie xxx