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Jenny Newton

Mmm... Carrot cake...

About Me

I'm Jenny.

Hmm... Me. Yes. Well, music makes me happy, from the heaviest of metal to the mellowest of mellow and all colours and shapes in between. I make pretty pictures. I like dark songs. I play lots of instruments, some extremely badly, but it's all good fun. I'm in love with my guitar. And cheese (NOT mild cheddar though. Its wrong.) And I make damn fine carrot cake.

This page is for my solo project, I've been monkeying about with this acoustic stuff for years and figured its high time I unleashed it upon the world... I've finally uploaded some songs (yes it's true! I know, I've been threatening it for over a year...) They're just rough one-take live things, although actually I've given in and uploaded the rough version of an old studio track that I haven't finished yet (very ruff vocals!!) I'll update with proper stuff as soon as time allows...

I've done a couple of acoustic gigs now which seem to have gone pretty well, next plan is to get some more writing/recording done and gather some fellow musicky peoples to jam some new stuff with.... Let me know if you're interested!!

Other music I make.... I play violin in Wake, we're lurking on MySpace at www.myspace.com/wakegroup. I've also recently started playing violin with fbcfabric & reindeer, a post-rock hip-hop type band - www.myspace.com/fbcfabricandreindeer. Some of my old bands have recently surfaced in MySpace-land - www.myspace.com/oneofusband. All hail One-Of-Us.

Thanks for reading/listening, keep checking back for new songs etc. Would love to turn some of this stuff into a band thing, so if anyone wants to get together and heavy things up a bit, do let me know, I need an outlet for my noisier self.....

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/5/2006
Band Members: Me at the mo!
Influences: Isis, Tool, King Crimson, Cult of Luna, Mono, Neurosis, Ulver, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Katatonia, Joseph Arthur, Cream, Our Lady Peace, Deus, The River, Incredible String Band, Failure, Headswim, Meet John Doe, Refused, The Gathering, 23 Enigma, Von Kleet, Mogwai, Joni Mitchell, Cinematic Orchestra, Mars Volta, Minsk, Tom McRae, Nick Drake, Circulus, The Herbaliser, Jeff Buckley, Explosions in the Sky, Songs:Ohia, Medications, Stabbing Westward, Fugazi, Tortoise, Public Enemy, Cities, Will Haven, Cat Stevens, Eleven Pictures, PJ Harvey, Tea Party, Clutch, Devin Townsend, Red Snapper, Send No Flowers, Nobuo Uematsu, Moody Blues, Soundgarden, Tori Amos, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, Blackfield, Miles Davis, Rival Schools, Quicksand, Gil Scott Heron, Radiohead, James Brown, Silversun Pickups, The Carpenters, Sunna, Terry Callier, DJ Shadow, The Police, Emiliana Torrini, NIN, Jimi Hendrix, Vaughan Williams, Bach, Vivaldi, Duran Duran (shh!) Cold, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, that's just the favourites, too many more to count! Badgers.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Update from Jen-land... And general news re: my other bands!

Well it’s 2.17am (or 3.17am if you’ve put your clocks forward) and I am enjoying the rare privilege of an entire evening off! So in my futile endeavour to make it last as long as possible...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:59:00 PST

Half Moon gig pics!

Mornin'... Just a quick (but very big) thanks to everyone who came to see either me or my band (or both!) at the Half Moon in Herne Hill Sunday before last, we had a fantastic time and also the gig ra...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:18:00 PST

Tom McRae Live...

Wow. Just got back from seeing Tom McRae at Shepherds Bush. What an amazing performer. And as for the cellist....... I'm quite blown away!! It felt like a small pub gig, very intimate, they even...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:37:00 PST

New (actually very old) song!!!

Just uploaded a new song.... well technically it's an old song actually, so the vocals are a bit nasty, but since I'm on this uploading-rough-stuff trip I thought it needed to be aired! A very big th...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Sun, 13 May 2007 03:01:00 PST

Listen to these albums!!!!

Albums that have blown me away the last few weeks that I need to shout about... Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic    Beyond melancholy. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - Oh My GirlBe...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:57:00 PST

Songs!!!!!

Yes it's true!! There are songs! Only 2 at the mo, recorded in the most lo-fi way ever (me singing at my little laptop using the built-in mic, first take, I promised myself that whatever came out wa...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:52:00 PST

....I finally did it!! *jumps up & down excitedly*

.....Well, I finally played my first acoustic set!  It was scary as hell cos it was the first time I've sung on my own (and the first time I've unleashed my own songs on the unsuspecting pub...
Posted by Jenny Newton on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:25:00 PST