Really pleased that another Day Dawns track featured on Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing Mixtape on BBC 6 Music. In the wee hours of Sunday 8 July/Monday 9th, Don’t You Keep Yourself Down was played among other specially selected tracks from other artists. This mixtape can be downloaded and played to your hearts content. Click here for details.
It was really lovely to chat with Roger Day again and to meet Trudy Kerr for their BBC Radio Kent show yesterday evening. We had a good long talk about the making of Day Dawns and a few tracks were played from the album.
You have 6 days to listen again by clicking here. Make sure you’ve a cuppa at your side as it’s an hour of entertaining antics from 9-10pm.
It was really lovely to chat with Roger Day again and to meet Trudy Kerr for their BBC Radio Kent show yesterday evening. We had a good long talk about the making of Day Dawns and a few tracks were played from the album.
You have 6 days to listen again by clicking here. Make sure you’ve a cuppa at your side as it’s an hour of entertaining antics from 9-10pm.
Southern World Arts News (SWAN) Editor and Artist, Alecia McKenzie caught up with me at the weekend to find out about my journey in making Day Dawns and she’s written a lovely piece which published on Monday 2 July on the SWAN site. Click here to read the interview…
Southern World Arts News (SWAN) Editor and Artist, Alecia McKenzie caught up with me at the weekend to find out about my journey in making Day Dawns and she’s written a lovely piece which published on Monday 2 July on the SWAN site. Click here to read the interview…
UK Music got in touch to find out more about me and the making of the album. Here’s their write up…
UKM: Say a little about yourself.
MJ: I’m a singer/songwriter. I’ve always sung – for as long as I can remember but song writing is a more recent thing although I’d always loved writing. When I was growing up I loved writing stories and poems which I’d put into cards and, later on, I began to write the occasional song. But it was really only something I thought of now and again but never really did.
I had a fabulous time chatting with Ernie Almond at BBC Three Counties Radio about the making, and release of, Day Dawns.
I had a fabulous time chatting with Ernie Almond at BBC Three Counties Radio about the making, and release of, Day Dawns.
The name Melissa James was a completely foreign one to me until this morning when, digging around on the interwebs for some new music to share, I came across two reviews of her debut album, Day Dawns.
Before pressing play on any material I read both the reviews and got a feel for what I could expect when I pressed play. The picture I had in my head was a British Lizz Wright, an artist who combines a large number of genres, namely soul, folk, blues, gospel and jazz, and combines them into a warm, organic, soulful sound.
After months of planning the album launch party to celebrate the release of “Day Dawns”, it finally happened on the 21st June at The Green Note in Camden.
And what a celebration it was. The Green Note was a full house and was brimming with the warmth that emitted from the audience.
This beautiful bouquet was very kindly given to me by Twitter friends Donatella Benigno and Stephanie Wolf when they made the special trip to Camden to join me in celebrating the launch of Day Dawns at The Green Note on the 21 June.
Such a lovely gesture and they were accompanied by a card with a heartfelt message which was incredibly touching. Thanks lovely ladies.
I was totally stunned to silence (which is rare) when I received this gorgeous painting created by Sophie Degunst, another Twitter friend.
Sophie had asked me many weeks ago via Twitter whether I prefer the colour of coffee or tea to which I nonchalantly responded: “Actually I don’t drink either,” which was really unhelpful since she was sneakily trying to decide on the best colours to use to create her painting.
