Here’s a footage about my mini trip in Dublin, you can also read the full story on the mini-blog<<.
I miss everything from there, I have to go back as soon as possible.

Butterfly Boucher is a singer that I love since I saw and met her at the Olympia (Paris) on year 2005 when she was the support act for Sarah Mclachlan. Since then, I always looked forward to a new album and was following her funny videos on Youtube. This lady is so funny, she’s got a great sense of humor, she’s always kidding and doesn’t act serious.
I’m a bit like that in my everyday life so I didn’t hesitate to be a contestant for the “Gun for a Tongue, Karaoke contest”; a song which will be on the upcoming “Scary Fragile” album.

The first video is about her, she’s inviting us to be fools!
The second video is our footage (my friend Sandra Poulain helped and pushed me a lot…thanks! She was also a contestant for the “Kerli contest” and she won!)
Well, we first made a recording session for the song, step by step and then we filmed. I sing totally playback and tried to act crazy. It sounds simple but it was not! At least it was really funny and lovely to do such a thing! Of course, I’d like to win but my goal is just for her to see this footage. Results will be announced on June 1st or 2nd.
If you’ve got a Youtube account, could you please write a comment, it may help the jury to choose. Thanks a lot!

Je suis désolé mais cet article ne sera qu’exclusivement écrit en anglais..

I made an update for the audio player (on the right side) to create a soundtrack for these words…

Hi everyone,

Sorry, this will be a long read, but I need to write it somewhere…

If I have to look back, there’s a little girl full of dreams, full of wishes and about to build her own universe because of so many real fears outside. Fears of violence, suffers and noises…

They’re still there somewhere, kept in a closet, in a small memory box in the depths of my brain.
I’ve been sick when I was 9 to 13, it began with a bad pneumonia that left myself a bit brain damaged because of a high level of temperature, bad fever. Then I had moments with nightmares as I was fully awake.
It happened in some unpredictably ways, while I was in a classroom or when I felt weird in a crowd…doctors had never found anything wrong, had a couple of treatments, some of them told my mum’ that it was caused by a full amount of stress. Maybe. I still remember those “nightmares”; I can picture this dark narrowed street with someone at the corner, a man chasing me, this fact that I can’t move or I could explode…it was hard, it was really hard to fight and control this. But I won, 4 nightmares per months became 4 nightmares a year then it was finished.

But it left me a bit damaged…
During a few years I felt really empty, had problems with my emotions, feelings. There’s something that save me a lot and everybody know what it is: music.
Senses came back, step by step, dream by dream. I became stronger and realized that I won’t ever lose anything I could feel.
Deep in my heart I know I’m so grateful to every artist that put songs and feelings back in my head and in a crazy way I could thank my dad after all the bad things he did to us.
He is also that kind of “universe builder”, surrounded by music, he surrounded our home. While it pissed off my mum’ a lot, I felt so great when I could listened to jazz (oldy one, ’30s/40s), musicals from George Gershwin or Bernstein, all these amazing singers and dancers like Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn or Judy Garland, Pathé Baby’s movies; then folk music from ’60s/70s like Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Peter Paul & Mary, Paul Simon, James Taylor, the old Sesame’s street recordings; then music from the ’80s/90s with The Carpenters, Beverly Craven, Suzanne Vega, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand and million of others…music to cinema and cinema to music.
His universe became mine and I always kept on going on with mine, felt a big taste for irish artists like U2, The Cranberries, The Corrs…
I always felt like I couldn’t talk to my dad except with music, we were used to make mix tapes, special ones with commentaries before going on holidays. I would love to find them and listen to my cute brother’s voice again!
Our dad never took time to teach us how to play music or teach us English/Dutch languages, he is self-centered, music is his universe, it saved him a lot but it was hard to pull it from there. He always plays by ear on his Dulcimer (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcimer) and in a way, told us to do the same. Unfortunately, I think I’m not gifted, I prefer drums and rhythms, and I’m up to take serious lessons on the forthcoming years!!
I think he was teaching us something most important…how to feel music/vibes in every part of it and how to use it for our own lives.

My universe was always about to be shared, still is and will forever be. Artists I like, I already met them in my dreams when I was like 13 and no money to go for a gig.
Then when I had some savings, I went for them and concert after concert, I realized that they are just like you and me, full of dreams, hopes, feelings to share. It filled me up to see and feel such songs with my own eyes like “Angel” from Sarah Mclachlan, “Runaway” from The Corrs (yeah like 10times but it was always different! ), “That day” from Natalie Imbruglia, many others and recently “Home” by Gemma Hayes and “I’ll try” by Jonatha Brooke.
So what? Dreams can be true? I think it’s more than that! I always wanted to meet other people who can feel things like me, I met some of them and I wish we’ll always be connected. We’re lucky to be born in the best time, with the Internet, things are getting easier to share.
Nobody knows where the music industry is going, at first there was 78 RPM records, then 33 RPM, 45RPM…cassettes, CDs and now digital files. Music is not about to die if there’s not a physical item for it. It’s always there and will forever be.
I like to know more about artists and if I can have the chance to talk to them, it will be just an unforgettable memory. ok, it’s really really amazing, it’s something that I can’t describe when you can have a hug or see their smiles, her eyes looking at you, then you realize things like “wow! I’m here, it’s real, this is not a DVD, she’s talking to me, I’m asking questions”…it’s unique and I’m willing to share those moments as best as I can with other “listeners”. But I really can’t do it at 100%, because we’re all different and what you can see or feel, your neighbor can see/feel it in a other way. But I’m trying to put the lights on people I like thanks to websites (http://ctn-music.com , btw, Thank god I met you, Gery & Julie!!) and social networks and I love to read feedbacks and to meet people after a new gig or else.

A few years back I worked in the Montreux Jazz festival for 2 weeks, it was a unique experiment and I hope to do it again one day! I met Ameth Ertegun (Atlantic records builder, recently died) who was just sitting next to me, we were in a special show for guests and staff people. Paolo Nutini was singing and Claude Nobs (http://www.claudenobs.com) was doing his speech about how he began to make this festival to come true, how he met people during years…it was like a revelation to me. And this is the biggest dream that I wish to be true in my life: to create a music festival with artists I like! Even if I can be any closer to this dream, it will be an achievement.

I’m 26, I don’t know if I’ll have children, I don’t know if I even want to have some.
I’m living for today like there won’t be a lot of tomorrows.
I need more things to fill me up again and I know I’ll have to make some sacrifices.
I left my family a few years ago to live my life without any judgments or criticisms, I miss them, I hope I could let them back into my “universe” again.
I wish to find my home and my soulmate too.

I wish I could ever forget things and always be true to myself.
I welcome everyone to enter my “universe” if you let me to enter yours.
The world is so small and huge at the same time, but hey! we’re so small compare to the big universe above our sky. THAT is something scary!!
Lives are short, so let’s stop thinking about cruelty, let’s put our hands together and create something new, something that future people could always remember. So that we’ll never die.
I begin today.

Hello, What’s your universe?

xoxo
jessy

p.s: well done if you read this last word.

I’m going to Dublin at the end of May and I’ve just opened a mini blog on the great tool called Tumblr!

I’ve already wrote a little, to plan things in order, I hope I’ll have time to see everything I want. First, I know I’ll sleep in a lovely place with a killer location, near the city centre…then every minute will be precious from the moment my feet will be at the airport.
See you soon!

>> http://jessyindublin.tumblr.com

Hi everyone!
I’ve opened my Twitter page, you can find me at http://twitter.com/jessika2001
Follow me!

I’m actually building a Street Team for Gemma Hayes and it’s really a lot of work and fun!! I learn how to manage a mailing-list, how to promote and a good friend is even giving me tips.

You can submit to it on the main page at Reverbnation, to get some information on Myspace and also to become “a fan” on Facebook.

I’m actually waiting a bit for Gemma to talk about it and to finally release her new EP called “Oliver”. Then, I’ll run!!! (I’m on the starting blocks)

Anyway, I’m having fun and I hope people will join and help to spread the words!

See ya!

I was in London like it was planned and I made it! I can say anything else except that it was amazing and I’ll remember it for all my life!!!

You can see the video footage on CTN-music.com and read a review from my friend Sandra Poulain.

Jonatha wrote  also a blog post on her journal section in HERE<<.

See ya!

This beginning of February was full of changes, plans to begin or those who are now achieved, new wishes.
New job too, some interviews (Sarah Bettens, Jo Krasevich and soon Jonatha Brooke but this time it will be different because I’ll meet her), notes on CTN, great things to come!!
I think I’ll be in London a lot during the upcoming months and I hope to see Ireland too.

I don’t have enough time to write here but I still want it.

This morning, I wish to share this story who made me smile, it’s about a house all upside down, a yellow brick road, a woman and her guitar:
Gemma Hayes - Home

Here’s a new interview with Sarah Bettens on CTN-Music.com that I’ve just made with her. She told us that K’S Choice (the music band she was before with her brother) will be back soon.

There’s also a contest to win ASA’s debut album and many other things to come! If you want to be a contestant, you just have to register on CTN.

Good luck, have a good read and a good listen ;)!
(you can listen to them in the audio player)

And here’s a new shirt for 2009 with this beautiful tag cloud on your back! I’ve got one and it’s just awesome to wear names of my fave artists!
You can watch the other ones in HERE<<.

By the way, I wish you a happy new year!!