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Mix Tape Monday: Jay Rodger
featuring
Jay Rodger
Photos from Jay Rodger’s Myspace
Okay. Confession. I first came across Jay here while looking at some recent Bobby Long videos. He has a pretty dang good cover of Crooked Sky that popped up in a search:
So naturally, I went looking for more of his works and I came across his myspace where he has a few original songs posted for a listen. I knew pretty quickly that I would like to feature him here on Mix Tape Monday. Especially when I started reading his blog entries. He made me laugh at his self-deprecating ways.
It’s sweet when I’m in the music, like really feeling the song I’m playing and the rest of the world gets lost around me. It’s a great feeling when the audience links to the song, and at the end when I open my eyes I can see people daydreaming all around the room….
Or maybe I’ve just bored them.
We’ll go with the first yeah?
Source
Um, yeah. He sounds like my kind of people. And others seem to agree that he is definitely someone to watch.
From Studio 49:
In amongst the theatres, tourists, students & building sites that currently reside in a small town known Stratford-upon-Avon there lies a single singer / song writer by the name ‘Jay Rodger’. Jay, taking influences from a range of musical greats brings it all together in a unique style of songs that can only be described as ‘Groovesum’. Think Bob Dylan meets Imogen Heap – sailing melodies that glide over delicate guitar playing, catchy hooks & an entrancing style of performance – Jay has it all.
All videos from dh130i’s youtube channel.
Want more?? You can find Jay on myspace, twitter and reverbnation.
And now it’s your turn to talk….what did you think of ol’ Jay here? Yay, nay? Let us know!
Communion Music is Amazing. Still.
The Flowerpot
The peeps behind Communion Music and The Flowerpot are teaming up for a collaborative musical project from July 12th- 18th. What does this mean?? Well, I will let the Flowerpot tell you itself.
From their website:
Flowerpot are teaming up with the Communion team for an original and extremely exciting project. In this one week in July we’re turning the venue into a recording studio, bands will be invited to The Flowerpot with the idea of collaborating with other musicians. Songs will be written, songs will be recorded, gigs will be played, gigs will be recorded, photos will be taken and films will be made. The whole thing will then be compiled into a double album that will be released later in the year.
So who will be involved in this effort? According to the website, Red Hot Velvet, there will be several of the Communion Music artists, including, yes, one Mr. Marcus Foster!
The likes of Mt Desolation, Lissie, Angus & Julia Stone, Kill It Kid, Matthew & The Atlas and members of Mumford & Sons will spend the week working on new songs together, alongside a host of exciting young artists including Communion signing Marcus Foster, Kyla La Grange, and The Staves all for a future album release.
And here I was all sadpanda missing him! Obviously he reads SoS and decided to let me know what’s been going on*. Duh.
Now just because we are over here in the States doesn’t mean that we won’t be able to join in the fun, so to speak. What do I mean by that?? Well, upon further investigation, I noticed on the Communion website a log-in section for exclusive content of this upcoming project. There are only a couple of test posts up currently, but I am hoping that this page will be updated nightly with small samples of each night. One can only hope, right? So, if you are interested, take a moment and register yourself HERE. It looks to be hosted on a wordpress format so I am thinking that if you already have a WP login that you can just use that. I went ahead and set up a new one, specifically for their site so if your current log-in doesn’t work….well….then feel free to leave me rude comments about how I wasted your time. 
So, are you as excited about this as I am?? Or do you live in London and plan on attending a session or six two? If you are, please let us know! I would love to hear about this from someone who is there!
Also, while we gotcha online here, do you follow us on Twitter?? Why not? Come join us and be there for when Amber gets drunk. Again. Her #drunktweets are WIN.
*- no he doesn’t.
Confession– I miss Marcus.
There. I said it. It is out there. I miss Marcus. In a totes non-creepy way. Well, as non creepy as it can be coming from someone who blogs about him on a regular basis. And I am not alone you see. I broke down earlier yesterday and DMd Amber with my little confession– and you know what?? She misses him too! In a totally non-stalker way too.
I mean, let’s get something straight here. We had a hella time in El Lay– obvi– but it’s been so long since we’ve had a glimpse of Marcus. Until yesterday that is…the day of my birth. Coincidence?! Pfft. I think not. That was totally Mr. Foster’s way of saying Happy Birthday. #Duh
Ooorrrr maybe he was just drunk and got twit-pic’d by a friend.
Either way, it made me want more. So naturally I fired up my luvah, I mean my laptop and began my quest. My Marcus Quest if you will. And you know what I found?? Some kick ace vids of Marcus when he was in Italy!! Check it:
Of course, I have to add my fave song, You, My Love:
Demons:
Movement:
All vids were found on nonokob’s channel. There are a bunch more posted so be sure to check it out!
::sigh:: all bettah now.
How bout you? Are you missing Marcus? What are you doing in his “absence” to make it all better??
Happy Birthday LiLi, My Accountability Partner
In case you haven’t heard, and you probably haven’t cause LiLi’s been keeping it on the DL, today is her birthday! WOOT! Well, okay, we are girls and birthday’s don’t usually necessitates woots anymore. More like moans and groans and pulling the covers back over our heads and asking for someone to wake us when the day is over.
But, since it’s not my birthday, I think we should celebrate. Big time. I’m talking the way that I celebrate every time I am at
Please repress this moment. This one. Right here.
a Sam Bradley concert… with a lot of beer, a memory that represses everything the next morning and we place ALL the blame on Jason Segal! Let’s do this!!
In case you all didn’t know, LiLi is my accountability partner at all shows featuring men of a British variety. I mean, she is kind of the worst one ever cause she let’s me get drunk, embarrass myself and then blogs about it for everyone in the world to see (including Sam, we know you are a faithful reader Sam!), but I still love her. It’s like she’s trying to teach me a lesson about not getting drunk at pretty much every show I attend, but yet here we are, and I am still holding beer #5.
Serious Sam moment here…
LiLi and I met through another website and then met in real life through an event that was all centered around that movie that we don’t often (okay, really ever) mention on this site. You know, the one. Don’t play coy with me.
But you know when that moment was that we became besties? The Sam, Marcus, Bobby hoe down in Dallas, pretty close to one year ago tonight. And you know what, for the past year, rarely a day goes by where I don’t talk to LiLi. Where she doesn’t literally make me LOL, to the point where people around me give me weird looks and think I am drunk (which, regardless of what you see at the Sam shows, I AM NOT!).
Please ignore my beer.
LiLi is seriously my sister from another mister, and I’m glad that in all of this craziness, I was lucky to gain such a kick ass friend that I wouldn’t trade for the world! ::hugs::
End Serious Sam moment.
Now, all of you, get down to the comments and leave my girl some love! Tell her she has the best granny panties EVA! Tell her how you also showed one of the guys the BEST fanmade drawings/pictures of them ever! Tell her how you felt so sorry for her when she escorted my drunk ass around at the last Sam show!
Or, you can just wish her a happy birthday. That is totally allowed.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILI!!
Where we conquer LA. And Amber gets drunk. I blame Jason Segel.
ohaithere Sam and Co....totes forgot my camera ::facepalm::
Once upon a time, LiLi and Amber packed up their little bags (well, mine was little…Amber’s could hold a small child) and flew out West to have some girly time and see one Mr. Sam Bradley at the Hotel Cafe. In case you didn’t know, Sam is playing there every Tuesday until July 13th– so if you are in the area, go check him out. And then send us pics. Word.
Now, if you know Amber or I, or hell, if you have even read one post of this here little blog, then you know that we don’t take things too seriously ’round here. That’s just us. I mean, yes, we like to give the news on the guys but we can’t help but add in our own thoughts to things. So, if you are looking for a specific-music-theory-analysis-complete-with-set-lists then sorry….this isn’t it. What it is though, is a re-telling of two fangirls’ trip to see someone that they really like. Hell, we should like him. We blog about him. But I digress….
So, pull up a chair and take a stroll with us down memory lane as we re-live our Sam experience via gchat:
We try to start off on the right track….but derail quickly:
LiLi: sooooo
Sam show
let’s talk
go
Amber: sooooo
LiLi: initial thoughts
Amber: i was drunk
LiLi: LOL
right (see below)
Amber: cause apparently that’s what i do when i go to Sam shows
i can’t help it
LiLi: um…do you remember whispering in my ear all night?
it was amazing
Amber: sort of
i’m glad you loved it!
LiLi: hahaha
i was like, whoa. this is how some porns start
Amber: Sam would know
LiLi: pfft….you mean OTTO BAUER*, yo
why didn’t you yell out “Otto!”??
Amber: PS I swear I saw Otto while we were eating dinner
LiLi: STFU
where?
Amber: we were at Pinches Tacos
i spotted a blazer and a white vneck
LiLi: BWAHAHAHA
so by Otto you meant Sam
Amber: i was like… Sam?
no, it wasn’t Sam
it was his doppleganger fo sho though
LiLi: everytime i saw that pinches taco i was like, uh….do they know what that means is Spanish?
Amber: it’s all mexicans working there, so I’m gonna go with yeah, probably
LiLi: LMAO
Fucking Tacos
that is brill
Where Amber remembers….nothing:
LiLi: anyhoo– what did you think of the show?
do you member it?
Amber: um, yeah, parts of it
seems like there were a lot of songs I didn’t know
LiLi: awesome. i love it.
yep
a lot of new stuff
and a new guy
i am tipping one out for Dave
Amber: yeah, hello random new guy who made me buy a poster
LOL!!
This ones for my homie, dave
LiLi: that was Two.Shoes
Amber: Who the fuck is TwoShoes?!?
LiLi: he’s on twitter.
Amber: I’m so confused…
LiLi: and wordpress
Amber: I miss Dave
LiLi: and tumblr
i feel creepy right now
that i know all that
Amber: as well as you should
LiLi: and that i told him that i knew that
Amber: you did not?!?
LiLi: yes. yes I did.
he was like, “uh, just buy a poster lady”
Amber: hello stalker!
LiLi: well…i….okay….
::hangs head::
there are no words
but at least i didn’t whisper it into his ear like I did Marcus that one time
::facepalm::
Amber: bwahahaha!
no worries
Marcus was too busy loving your granny panties
LiLi: dood
for reals
who wouldn’t
i was smart last night though…went with the low riders
was it just last night?
geez. i feel like it was days ago
Amber: i know, felt like 3 days ago
LiLi: word
Regrets, Serious Sam and Amber making LiLi a hooker:
LiLi: any regrets?
Amber: um, everything?
LiLi: BWAHAHAHA
Amber: is that a good answer?
LiLi: maybe that 11th beer?
you said, “Here Sam, sign your Serious Sam picture”
Amber: my biggest regret is that my friends didn’t stop me
LiLi: um, hell to the no
at least you weren’t the one that showed him the pic of Otto.
[LiLi edit: watch this. trust.]
Amber: TRUTH!
Amazingly, I did not have that much beer flowing through me.
LiLi: i was dead that that point. and not in that good way.
but Sam took it all in stride.
Amber: he seemed to be on his game for the night with the fans
LiLi: and during the show– cause let’s go ahead and get this out there– Sam gives good eyes
Amber: YES!
She moves me, I love that song and he was giving MAD eyes the whole time!
gah
LiLi: fo reals.
and, imma go ahead and say that me likey the Whiskey
Amber: i like that song, but I dunno… she moves me was my fave
cause of the eyes mainly, but whatevs
LiLi: well, it helps that you are like 6 feet tall.
you can see it all
maybe i am jeal
whatevs
Amber: next time, go for the hooker heels!
I’m sure Otto can help you pick some out
LiLi: BWAHAHAHA
word
can you imagine though?
me in heels?
i would die
Amber: can you die by twisting an ankle?
nah, you should try
LiLi: um
Amber: and make sure i am there when you do
LOL
LiLi: i would trip and fall and break my neck
i can barely walk as it is
ps– i may or may not have fallen on that damn motorized walkway thingy at the airport tonight
and people saw
Amber: shut up
LiLi: no
i won’t
and yes. i did.
i told you when we left that I usually trip on those damn things
and here you are wanting me to get all hooker
Amber: you did, i remember
LOL!
I’m sorry
i take it back
a little
LiLi: hahahaha
Click to read where we get serious about Sam, and blame Jason Segel for everything:
Amber
Li Li
