Ida profile picture

Ida

the third best female banjo player in Archway

About Me

Hello! I am Helen, a.k.a. Ida. I am a music journalist, banjo player, and hard working civil servant. I spend a lot of my time during the day staring out of the window wishing i was a cat. By night i prowl the bars and music venues of London town seeking out good music and the odd scrap of tuna fish. Check out my stuff in Maverick magazine, Clash magazine and on Real.com's Rhapsody service...

My Interests

writing stuff (i wrote some of these)

I'd like to meet:

baby pandas

Music:

Impossible to know where to start... but when i Dj i play Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Leeroy Stagger, Jayhawks, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nickel Creek, Nathan, Patsy Cline, Bobby Bare Jnr, Willie Nelson, Pete Yorn, Bruce Sringsteen, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Jesse Malin, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, the Doors, Bonnie Prince Billy, Gram, Emmylou, Gillian Welch, Byrds, LongRyders, Beach Boys, Loretta Lynne, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Martha Wainwright, Creedance... you get the picture. Bands who i love who play regulary around London include, Jason McNiff, Grand Drive, Redlands Palomino Co, The Broken Family Band, Circulus, The Eighteenth Day of May, Emma Tricca, the Coal Porters, Goldrush, the-low-country, EMILY BARKER AND THE RED CLAY HALOS - wow how come i didn't mention them before they rock super hard, Christopher Rees, Alan Tyler, the Tailors, Ida and the Hos. Whatever's on at whatever pub i'm in. I can't bear Coldplay, I'd rather make myself vomit. Other artists who i delight in making people listen to that aren't strictly country or folk are: Rufus Wainwright, Robyn Hitchcock, Toots and the Maytals, the Finger, the Killers, We Are Scientists, Jimmy Cliff, PJ Harvey, you know... the usual indie/schminde stuff... Also check out the fanzine i did. http://ryannotbryanadams.pixlet.net

Movies:

wherever, whatever, have a nice day

Television:

Lost, Look Around You, Celebrity Suduko, Channel 4 news.

Books:

my book wont be as good as this one

Heroes:

<a

My Blog

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsand some are treasured for their markings --they cause the eyes to meltor the body to shriek without pain.I have never seen one fly, butsometimes they perch...
Posted by Ida on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:48:00 PST

I AM IN LOVE WITH

my new ipod. i love it so much i am going to get it surgically implanted under my skin so that i don't even need to wear clothes with pockets. ...
Posted by Ida on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:42:00 PST

One day....

One day I'm going to be the best banjo player in the world.     ...
Posted by Ida on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:14:00 PST

Sunrise

Staying up extraordinarily late or getting up unseasonably early fucks you up for a week, but it also means that you might see the sun rise. This was the view from my window on sunday morning... .... ...
Posted by Ida on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:49:00 PST

Pablo Neruda - Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example, 'The night is starryand the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.Tonight I can write the sa...
Posted by Ida on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:09:00 PST

Here i am, at last.

Apparently if you're not on myspace you're not on the planet, so here i am. Helen a.k.a Ida H.  So now what?  ...
Posted by Ida on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST