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JANE

Just wanna write songs for other people y'know?

About Me


"... achingly beautiful ... she is a wonderfully charismatic singer."
- Total Production Magazine
"... refined songs and superb vocal delivery" - Smother Magazine
"Lovely ... Seedling could become your new favorite album." - Splendid Magazine
"This cd is really a breath of fresh air" - Leaked Albums
"We discovered this album and Sunday morning chillin' hasn't been the same since." - Out In London
"Quite simply - it's gorgeous" - Female Songwriter
"...restrained elegance" - Thread magazine
"...it begs the question with such great songs, why hasn't somebody snapped up this artist and made her into a star? - Review Magazine
"hook-laden funky pop" - New Music International

Hi there, thanks for dropping by to visit my page! What can I tell you about myself? I'm a happily married, Christian, Aquarian , veggie, 30 something (constantly knackered) 'Essex gal' and mum of four gorgeous children. Among other things, I LOVE music, comedy, drinking, eating, cooking, my lovely hubby and my fab sprogs and my wonderful chums ...
Since I was 12 , I've suffered from a very weird condition called sleep paralysis which was very freaky at first but now I'm (sort of) used to it.
At university I studied psychology and though it may sound cheesy - I am trying hard to grow spiritually, emotionally and intellectually and be the best person I can ... oh yes, and I'm a gadget loving, Dr Who watching nerd too.
Well, I don't really 'do' music that much anymore - I realised a while ago I was too old and lardy arsed (not that it should bloody well matter) to ever be offered a record deal so I set up Delicious PR to independently release and promote my own albums :-
CLOSE UP AND REAL and
SEEDLING
I've recently been involved in a project to raise money for research into a very rare ageing disease called 'progeria. This condition affects only 44 children in the world. It's been an honour to be part of this and a cause well worth supporting.
Click Here to visit the Song4Progeria website and find out more.
I am happy to accept 'adds' from bands if you message me first and I quite enjoy nosing round other people's MySpace profiles and adding interesting sounding people ...
Please send me a message before trying to 'friend me.' Call me old fashioned - but I don't really see the point in having pages full with photographs of people I never speak to...
...And speaking of people I've never spoken to ... As well as some of my F.A.B friends (commonly known as PLU's) I'd love to have a dinner party with Stephen Fry, Tony Benn, Cynthia Payne, Cathy Burke, Bob Dylan, Anita Roddick, Eddie Izzard, Joni Mitchell, Molly Parkin and Sir Robert Winston ... In an ideal world (i.e these people were still alive), I'd have added Dorothy Parker, Simone de Beauvoir, Oscar Wilde, Pete & Dud, Ian Dury, R.D Laing, Ivan Illich, Kenneth Williams and Spike Milligan too! Of course I would like to meet Jesus, Ghandi and other obvious candidates but we're talking fantasy dinner party here - the serious stuff is for another day.
There are so many great movies but among my favourite films are; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, Brief Encounter, Leon, Gandhi, Shine, A Beautiful Mind , Usual Suspects, The Terminator Trilogy, Schindler's List, Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, Matilda, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (my little girl adores this & we've watched it dozens of times together) ... I could go on and on...
My all time favourite book is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupry
I recently discovered, one of my songs was available as a ringtone for mobile cell phones ... phew, fame at last huh? ;-)
Digital downloads of my songs are available from the following stores - many are free:-
iTunes (SEEDLING album)
iTunes (CLOSE UP AND REAL album)
BBC RADIO
Pure Volume
CD BABY
Channel 4 TV
Indie 911
Independent Artists Company
Weed
Number One Music
Mp3 Tunes
MSN Music
Tower Records
Soundclick
Mperia
isounds
Jazz CDs

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/8/2005
Band Website: janemusic.info
Band Members: I've been very lucky to work with some amazing musicians, most of whom are still great friends - still missing Pete and Michael... Pete Jacobsen (1950 - 2002)
Michael Bettell (1962 - 2003) - see also - Drumming Up Hope
Reg Webb
Dave bronze
Mark Cunningham
Phil Burdett
Mark Street
Phil Hilbourne
Wendy Roberts
Dave Mascall
Al Christie
Terry Lewis
Influences: I JUST WANNA BE IN A BAND LIKE THIS ....
Crosby Stills Nash Young & Mitchell - Helpless (1974)

Helpless (1974)"
I'm influenced by loads of stuff but musically - well, where do I start?
My record collection includes music from punk to opera however, some of my favourites are : Steely Dan, Ian Dury, The Clash, Stevie Wonder, Take 5, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Ben Folds, The Eagles, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joni Mitchell, James Tayler, Bonnie Raitt, Damien Rice, Blondie, Abba, Pat Methany, Tom Waits,Connor Reeves, Norah Jones, The Beach Boys, 5 Blind Boys of Alabama, Imogen Heap, Jonatha Brooke, Annika, Sheila Chandra, Peter Gabriel... this list could be pages long!

I also LOVE comedy especially Spike Milligan, Monty Python, League Of Gentlemen,The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Good Life, Rising damp, Dads Army, Nighty Night, Blackadder, Father Ted, The Office, The Fast Show, Pete and Dud, Stephen Fry ... shit , I watch a LOT more televsion than I realised ...

Sounds Like: I've been compared to Norah Jones - in fact one reviewer said, "Compared to Norah Jones, Jane is bloody crap!"Reviewers and critics do love to make comparisons. Below are a list of artists I've compared with.
Meatloaf,
Jimmy Osmond
Village People (all of them simultaniously)
John Travolta ...
Er, I think you'd be better off making your own minds up.

SEEDLING and CLOSE UP & REAL are now available at BANGCD - free worldwide delivery!

Track featured on Drumming Up Hope album

Record Label: Tomboy Music Group
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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Swinging or minging?

Swinging or Minging It's be great if you culd add your comments here-http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2006/10/23/ swing_ming_jane_qa.shtml You are in: Essex > Entertainment > Music > Swin...
Posted by JANE on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:15:00 PST

I am 83% Christina Ricci and only 8% ME!

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Posted by JANE on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:11:00 PST

Define necessity

We'd all do well to remember this image next time we moan and goran about our minor problems. I know problems and misery are all relative but come on ... how much do we REALLY need that new XYZ??...
Posted by JANE on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:24:00 PST

Meet your meat - a shocking video

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Posted by JANE on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:02:00 PST

Albert Einstein can't be wrong can he?

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein I have no doubt, said Thoreau, that it is part ...
Posted by JANE on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:47:00 PST

Do these bands all employ the same graphics guy and photographer?

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Posted by JANE on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:13:00 PST

The Cruelty and Wastefulness of Meat Eating

The Cruelty and Wastefulness of Meat Eatingby John Couch, Society of Friends (Quakers) Friends and Vegetarianism Friends assert that there is that of God in every person. But do we restrict our...
Posted by JANE on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:21:00 PST

Stepehn Fry (swoon) and History Matters ...

The future's in the past At the launch of a new campaign last week to promote the study of history, Stephen Fry made a passionate appeal that we use the gripping narratives of the past to make sense o...
Posted by JANE on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:51:00 PST