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Jude Cowan

About Me

Wandering around the back streets of London writing dark and mysterious ditties. Then escaping to the country to reflect on geese and ghosts.

Jude's macabre and beautiful music and poetry has been compared to Marianne Faithful, P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Lee Hazlewood and Kate Bush.An eccentric English chanteuse, she draws on the decadent imagery of art history to fuel her peculiar craft. Wielding a satirical knife she slices open the flagging body of blues and folk traditions to tickle and amuse its still beating heart.

Buy Jude's TO AMERICA CD album.. £7 including postage and packing in the UK
contact me for overseas postage

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2007
Band Members: Partners in my previous attempt to escape this country and head off to the New World in 'To America' were Robert Allfree, Gerry Collins, Steve Crittall, Steve Dray, Andy Gordon, Karl Hussey / Benny Hemlock, Jon Treganna and David Stanton. On previous work, Eugene King 'Huge Euge', Isaac Tagoe, Louise Brocklehurst and others.
Influences: Dr Johnson and his Cat Hodge, D.H. Lawrence, E. Nesbit, Jacobean drama, Hank Williams, Tom Lehrer, Harry Graham, Conan Doyle, Thomas Morley, Thomas Campion, Incredible String Band, Philip Tabane, Sibelius, Saluang Music of Sumatra Barat, Al Jolson, Berlin 1920 and the Dada Fair, Victorian Parlours, the Eiffel Tower, Marvin Hatley, Decadent Poetry, Joan Aiken, H.G. Wells, Melies, the brooding landscape of Northern hills, the lamp lit cobbles of blood-soaked metropolitan alleys
Sounds Like: Eccentric English, fin-de-siecle Gothic avant-garde, pastoral perambulations, trans-cultural meanderings, 3 minute songs, Americana, pioneer dreams and nightmares

Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6 'prepare yourself for a tale of romance, heartbreak, disappointment and adventure' (of Cirque Rouge)

"this sick twisted woman needs to have a nasty shooting accident" Sarah Palin

"this woman has true grit" John Wayne

"She broke my heart but her songs helped me get over it" Johnny Depp
Record Label: Solarisqs (youtube)

My Blog

Jude Cowan live at Hidden Away Central 30-04-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMpvjs-Hfo
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 10:25:00 GMT

"The Ship of Death" by D.H. Lawrence (poetry reading)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7kxagMFr5Q I do like a bit of D.H. Lawrence x
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:45:00 GMT

In Red Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG8ob4I4gpM Hi, some photos of me playing the anti-folk festival last summer and the song 'In Red Berlin'
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:23:00 GMT

New Videos at www.youtube.com/solarisqs

Yes, I'm still at it, uploading new song videos to my youtube channel, solarisqs.Why is it called solarisqs? Because my dog is called Solaris Q Scuddamore.Why is my dog called Solaris Q Scuddamore? Th...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:14:00 GMT

For Michael Donaghy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0GU790BFy0 Hi, this is a little tune a friend of mine wrote. I promised him a long time ago I'd put some words to it and record it. Here it is finally. ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:50:00 GMT

JOLLY ROGER! *** Lyrics ***

HiI've been very very kindly asked to blog my lyrics.So here's Jolly Roger for you - hope you don't think it's too macabre. I call it an infanticide sea-shanty sometimes, but truly that's a bit flippa...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:50:00 GMT

Spoonful of Poison, Mon 9 Feb, Legion, Old Street

Hi allI'm chuffed to be doing a feature set of my more comedy-like material on Monday 9 Feb at the Legion on Old St, Shoreditch.Do say hello if you come,Jude x
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:52:00 GMT

Fella in the Cellar by Jude Cowan (& ukelele)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tey8nVSx-V0 Fella in the Cellar! Online now! Find out how to deal with a relationship that doesn't work out. Don't give up. There's always a third way.
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:41:00 GMT

Francois Villon's Last Day (Before the Reprieve)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J72fDCh5dW4 Francois is waiting for the death sentence (again), like the fifteenth century poet-rogue he is.
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:58:00 GMT

Doodlebug Alley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZl6EF01wY London, 1944. The lights may not be lit again in our time. Hitler is bombing the fuck out of South London with the buzz bombs. If you can hear t...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:52:00 GMT