A few weeks ago i jet setted back to hossegor to shoot the music video for “Story”! The video is basically me telling a story through polaroid pictures, i’m taking them throughout the video and there are a few quirky scenes with me surrounded by paper planes, climbing amongst the trees, rocks …. one small roof top! There are lots of scenes on the beach and of course i was wearing the Fall collection by Quiksilver Women!!! they are sooo beautiful!!!!

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1st day of the video shoot was all on location, and it was such a nice day! Me and Tara were up at 6 and started make up at half past! First we headed into Bayonne, a beautiful town near Biarritz. We did some shots of me taking polaroids by the lighthouse and some shots by the sea! The town was really beautiful, too. We then did some shots of me in the car taking pictures on the road through the country side! there was one scene where we had two cars going alongside eachother, cameraman Dan in one, me in the other!!!! Was hard to keep a straight face!
It was a loooong day and we all caught a (reasonably) early night! =)

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The next day was all about the lip syncing- it was quite a surreal thing to get my head around and i cant tell u how nervous i was!!! i wouldnt let anyone watch for the first hour i was so embarrased! but as the day went on i got more an more confident and just treated it as if it were a live performance and i think that helped a lot!   Here are some piccies!!! Cant Wait to Show you all the Video  

Anna xxx
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As some of you may know- London was covered in snow recently!!! And with trains and buses and cars not being able to travel- there was only one thing to do instead of go to work/school/wherever everyone needed to be… and that was to go sledging!!!! =)

So we went to the beautiful wield park just outside London- with toboggans, body boards, mats (anything we could slide down a hill on!).

It was one of the funniest enjoyable days! The snow didn’t stop for almost 24 hours ! I had to wear five layers but still looked very glamorous with my pigtails and body board……. :S.

Here are some piccies to prove i can be Extreme Leddra Chapman… enjoy!!

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas was so much fun as usual… my ten year old sister still lays out the mince pie and whisky… and my dad still hums “ho ho ho” outside my door before going to bed! We all got up ridiculously early and began the Leddra-Chapman ritual of opening presents one by one taking turns each lol it always take about 3 hours! I got a loop pedal! Like the one KT Tunstall uses when performing “black horse and a cherry tree”! I’ll be a one woman band lol! I’m still working out how it ticks but I cant wait to perform with it! I have definitely eaten to much this Christmas but I don’t care!! Its what Christmas is for! January is for joining the gym ;) whoever heard of joining it in December?!

 

New years eve I stayed in with my gorgeous Alex. We cooked and watched New Year’s tele and saved lots of money!! It was very lovely and nice to know we wouldn’t have a huge hangover in the morning! New years day was for sleeping in and writing new years resolutions! I’ll let you know when I’ve finished writing mine!

 

2009 is going to be a good one I can feel it

 

 

 

 

 

Anna xxxx

 

 

 

Hey everyone, I’m Anna and this is my first blog!

 

 

I’m a singer songwriter based in London- I am also at full time University studying for my music degree which is hard work but fun- continuing with my studies has been important to me. 

So, what have I been up to? Well, I’ve just got back from a hard days work at the studio!!   I’m writing a song with the very talented Peter Vetesse- and I was inspired after watching a film called Factory Girl- I don’t know if you’ve heard of it. Anyway the storyline is based on the life of Edie Sedgwick (Andy Warhol’s muse) and there’s a side storyline detailing the love affair between herself and Bob Dylan- then I found out that a lot of his songs are supposedly about her- and its fascinating me sooo much! I’m doing more and more research about it as we speak, and I can’t wait to put the story into a song- hopefully the one I’m writing at the moment! It’s got a gorgeous piano part- it sounds Christmassy!

 

I am so excited about Christmas- I went shopping with my best friend Marisa over the weekend- and have almost everyone covered now! =) Christmas is full of little family traditions in the Leddra-Chapman household – my little sister Beth is now 10 but is still full of the wonders of it all!   

 

Happy Christmas everyone! 

 

Anna xx