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janeukey (@janeukey) progress: 15 winner! joined: 3 months ago location: Australia website: www.facebook.com/janecameronmusic influences: Favourites would be Radiohead, Portishead, Gotye, The Doors, Hey Rosetta!, Nick Cave, Gorillaz, Cat Empire, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Pendulum, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Johnny Cash, Queens of the Stone Age, the Cure, the Saints, White Stripes, Xavier Rudd, Hilltop Hoods, The Church, Sting, the Ramones, Stray Cats, the Police, the Eels, Everlast, Epicure, the Postal Service, Prodigy, the Cruel Sea, Apollo 440, Bloodhound Gang, Nancy Sinatra, Sigur Ros and probably many more that I can't think of off the top of my head. I may be a little musically schizophrenic as a result :) ...and I'm still trying to work out which ones are coming through in my work ;)

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2012 Songs

1		Muted	18 comments // 3 months ago
2		The Sun through the Clouds	11 comments // 3 months ago
3		The Laundromat Song	10 comments // 3 months ago
4		Donna	5 comments // 3 months ago
5		The Declaration	5 comments // 3 months ago
6		The Cure	3 comments // 2 months ago
7		Coming Home (working title: Room 60)	2 comments // 2 months ago
8		Losing the Night	2 comments // 2 months ago
9		At The Mountain (improv) (with kiwafruit)	1 comment // 2 months ago
10		Hold Me Near (with kiwafruit)	1 comment // 2 months ago
11		My Home Tonight (with kiwafruit)	2 comments // 2 months ago
12		Delicate Mirror (with kiwafruit)	1 comment // 2 months ago
13		Waterfall	3 comments // 2 months ago
14		The Fourteenth Song	3 comments // 2 months ago
15		Forgetful	1 comment // 2 months ago

Soundboard

•  jonniegrunge 2 months ago

  Holy crap, you improv'ed the lines live?! Okay, you win.

• kiwafruit 2 months ago

  Jaaaaaane, come on, you're only 2.5 songs away - you can do it!!

•  nightengale 3 months ago

  Hi Jane, thank you for your nice comments!

•  toms 3 months ago

  Thank you for the kind comment, Jane!

• rittmo 3 months ago

  how long a coffee break are you going to take
  while the world is aching for a tune
  pick up your uke and placate
  the cat that jumped over the moon
  
  it could be happy, or midnight blue
  a pick and a peck, you never know
  what might excite your muse
  in any event young lady, on with the show!
  
  rittmo'

• scoob 3 months ago

  Hey there Jane, how you keepng ? 8)
  
  I've been demo-ing my tunes, I'm up to six at present.
  prolly start uploading next week, I'm also looking for some colabs.
  
  Hey I also got a lil uke band going. We havnt got a name yet and we only playing covers at the mo.
  We got me on bass, two soprano's, a banjolele, and two tennors and a barritone uke.

• janeukey 3 months ago

  lol - Tim, now why would I need a custard tart when I have a chivalrous Downburst leaping to my defence?
  
  Rod that's my actor background leaking through I'm afraid - it's always got to be character driven for me, I think...or at least narrative driven.
  
  And I'm afraid Tim that it's that same acting background, and more specifically my background with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and their self-devised works (which usually involve a collision of the contemporary with a heightened ritualistic aesthetic) that makes me less concerned with consistency of low, middle and high english and more interested in the flavour and dynamic that comes from particular words and phrases. I kind of like the juxtaposition of different styles of language - it's what I'm used to working with I guess.

•  timfatchen 3 months ago

  No, don't _want_ a particular approach to lyrics. I'll happily accept (and try to write) what we could call Low, Middle and High English, depending on the purpose. But I get a bit jarred when an odd High construction seems to have snuck in to a Middle lyric, and I will say so. At times this really ends in my embarrassment, as with "not soon forgotten" which turns on dialect, not usage. "...two countries separated by the gulf of a common language" tho' I think I've misquoted that.
  
  @downburst contortions? Serves @downburst right. I'm still trying to set Sidney Lanier...one-count-'em-one success so far.
  
  (Don't mind this chatroom developing on your soundboard Jane, just keep writing this interesting stuff! Feel free to throw a custard tart in selfdefence too!)

•  downburst 3 months ago

  Really, Tim? It sounds like you want a really vernacular approach to lyrics, which is fine, but surely there's room for a more... "literary" style. Ravages, sublime, embers, unraveled all suggest to me connections with the larger world English poetry. And, really, this isn't Milton--they're pretty modest deviations from pop conventions, no? I set an Emily Dickinson poem to music, and you couldn't imagine the contortions her language put me through.

•  downburst 3 months ago

  You're welcome, Jane. I'm so impressed with your stuff--it's miles away from what I think of as "ukulele music." Your recent songs that I've heard are so... dramatic. I don't mean "theatrical"--I mean it feels as if each song comes from a character, and is emotionally true to that. And your singing is so good--there's such restraint that little shifts of mood sound large.

•  timfatchen 3 months ago

  heh I was going to mention ravages but thought three _wouldn't_ be the charm I'll give you "not soon forgotten" and raise you on "once did"!

• rittmo 3 months ago

  Hi Jane
  
  you may be interested in another ukelele lady, my good friend Annie (rhymetime)
  
  http://fawm.org/songs/24336/
  
  Thanks
  
  rittmo'

•  frenchcricket 3 months ago

  Thanks! I do a lot of peoples heads in, though not always in a good way

• rittmo 3 months ago

  Hello backatcha
  
  If your uke finds any of my lyrics attractive tell her she's welcome to sing along
  
  rittmo'

•  errol 3 months ago

  Huzzah for Duos! They're so much fun.
  
  How long have you been in a duo?

•  errol 3 months ago

  Wait?!? You're in a duo tooo! Me too! With @debs! Who's your partner?

•  errol 3 months ago

  Huzzah! I think that means we are soulmates ! I'll tell @robynmackenzie we have another ( assuming that soulmates are all soulmates of each other)

•  airbagtester 3 months ago

  Hi Jane! Nice "cat-in-the-uke-case" pic! Someone should start a photo album and invite @blindkiwi Maybe I can get my cat in my trumpet case...

•  errol 3 months ago

  No problem! You just wait until I give you my comment!

•  calumcarlyle 3 months ago

  hi! thanks for the hello! aw, i'll be back on the music train sometime soon.

• kiwafruit 3 months ago

  Yay! You made it! And beat me to posting a song... Sheesh.

• kaylou 3 months ago

  Haha I actually came right over here to see if you had Portishead listed on your influences. I'm not surprised.

• explodingmary 3 months ago

  Welcome to FAWM!

•  oneslowtyper 3 months ago

  LOL - So it's you, Kahiwa, and Rhonda (Ukuladies)
  
  I always heard trouble comes in 3's... I just never believed it until now!! LMAO

•  wyatt 3 months ago

  Hi Janeukey,
  Welcome to FAWMland. It's a great place

•  oneslowtyper 3 months ago

  OMG!! - I just don't think the world is safe anymore... knowing you and kiwafruit are wandering the countryside together - creating all kinds of havoc I'm sure. LOL
  
  Nice to see you here Jane.

•  downburst 3 months ago

  So glad to see you here!

•  blindkiwi 3 months ago

  Woohoo, welcome Jane. I posted a link to Imogen's Eyes in another thread yesterday and was wondering if you were going to make it.