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About Me

"Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words, its speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones." - Keith Richards

Julia Jakobsen was born in 1987, grew up around the world, grabbed an acoustic guitar at 16 and started writing songs. She cut her teeth singing backup for established South African acts such as James Stewart and jacSharp. Then she started her own band Jules & the Fools - now called Julia Jakobsen, and recently the band Hunter (an acoustic collaboration with friend and fellow songstrel Louise Day). Julia’s music is a blend of traditional folk and quirky indie pop, with rock occasionally seeping in.
her motto? babysteps to world domination...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/6/2005
Band Members: julia jakobsen
Influences: the shins, aimee mann, sugarcult, bright eyes, calexico, elliott smith, bob dylan, neil young, smashing pumpkins, damien rice, ani difranco, new pornographers, arcade fire, ac newman, tracy bonham, travis, joni mitchell, joan baez, tina dickow, good shirt, tristan prettyman, veruca salt, hole, sufjan stevens, weezer, rilo kiley, maria taylor, laura veirs, the ramones, the pixies, our lady peace, mew, metric, shout out louds, be your own pet, joseph arthur, jump little children, iron & wine, guster, the go! team, feist, eva cassidy, neko case, the beatles, rolling stones, death cab for cutie, postal service, broken social scene, the cranberries, nine black alps, fischerspooner, mason jennings, kimya dawson, damone, the jesus and mary chain, black rebel motorcycle club, veto, snake river conspiracy, fionn regan, ash...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Change of Plan

Thursday's gig is not going to be a band gig after all. But it will be supercool nonetheless! xxAdd iLike to your MySpace - Julia Jakobsen on iLike...
Posted by Julia Jakobsen on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:36:00 PST

The Countdown

One week left til the band re-debuts at BluBar...hurrah!!Last friday, we had band practice at Mercury, and although the drum kit was a tad f***ed and my guitar’s battery was officially declared ...
Posted by Julia Jakobsen on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:02:00 PST

Gig Dates Posted

I didn’t realise I had this many gigs coming up until I listed them all. Ha. Awesome. Can’t wait, hope to see some of you at a couple of shows, especially the full band ones on the 17th of...
Posted by Julia Jakobsen on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:38:00 PST

Sign Up To My Official Mailing List

Sign up to my official mailing list here. I will never spam, just keep you updated, you know, the purpose of having a newsletter. Stoked. Sign up. You can always leave! :) ...
Posted by Julia Jakobsen on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

Breathing life back into blog

So after much deliberation and fooling around (get it?),it’s time to revive this myspace of mine, and the blog. I’m playing at the Barleycorn Festival today, should be good fun.
Posted by Julia Jakobsen on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:07:00 PST