Lou Reed apparently once said “give me a title and I’ll write you a song.”
Such was the begining of this song.
I came up with the title first, actually, originally walking to Soho Square, but discovered that I found many more interesting things to write about whilst walking through Camden Town.
Having worked at the market there and lived just off Camden Square in two rooms with my baby girl when I first moved to London, Camden Town holds a special place in my heart.
Everything is written from observation in the song apart from the meeting at the end, that is an amalgamation of many memories.
love, Sadie
Latest Entries »
The Recession Sessions #7: Sadie Jemmett – Five Things That I Noticed (As I Walked To Camden Square)
Judy Collins, Kenny White, Will Kevans, Sadie Jemmett
Wildflower Records is a grassroots artist-driven record label. Based in New York and launched in 1999 by Judy Collins – Owner, Founder and CEO of the company.
The label’s mission is to find and nurture artists, giving back support as Judy Collins received by the music industry in her early recording years.
Wildflower Records boasts an eclectic and ever-growing roster and this showcase features exciting young talent as well as seasoned musicians featuring a very special performance from Judy Collins herself.
Wildflower Records is distributed by ADA Global and Warner Digital
Adv tickets: £10.00 plus booking fee.
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=389988&interface=halfmoon
The Half Moon, 93 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 1EU [map]
www.sadiejemmett.com
www.willkevans.com
www.kennywhite.net
www.judycollins.com
Sadie Jemmett live at Fairfield Halls, Croydon: 29 June: supporting Judy Collins
A wonderful evening with the legendary Judy Collins with new Wildflower Records signing Sadie Jemmett supporting.
Fairfield Halls, Park Lane Croydon, Surrey CR9 1DG [map]
Tickets: £21.50
http://www.fairfield.co.uk/showchoosearea.php?showid=15054
The thing that struck me most about this song were the words.
I love the way he refers to love as a place, a landscape that you can suddenly find yourself back in without much explanation as to how you got there or left there in the first place: “love has come calling, and I’m back there again”.
For the terminally romantic amongst us… when will we ever learn?
love, Sadie
This song “Mother” has meant a tremendous amount to me over the years. Having your mother living literally up the road from you and not living with you, or even visiting much , is a rare and extremely painful experience for any child to go through, and it is one that I share with John Lennon.
I guess when I first heard the song , and the painful and brutal
honesty with which it is sung , it resonated with me very deeply because of that.
Recently I was honoured to have Yoko Ono discover my music and include one of my songs on a radio show she gave for BBC6 music, so it seemed like the right time to work on a cover of this song , something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I hope she likes it, and you like it too.
by Jennifer Pelka, Feast NBC New York
Lovers of fine food tend to be lovers of all things brilliant in the cultural universe, so you’ll be glad to know that there is a play going up in Manhattan that does more than touch on the topic of eating–the actors encourage you drink your own wine and inhale the scents of live-action cooking from the stage.
You can bring your own bottle of wine to “La Vie Matérielle,” by Parisian director Irina Brook, in which five women gather around a family kitchen to cook, gossip, laugh, cry, and break into occasional song and dance. Based on the culty French writer Marguerite Duras’ memoirs and inspired by scenes from A Room of One’s Own, the cast of this show is cooking–literally, throughout the scenes. They’re hard at work on a hearty French vegetable soup, which is bubbling on the stove as you walk into the theater.
The dinner party environment is real – Brook is encouraging audience members to come to the performance with a bottle in hand to enjoy with the cast following the show, paired with a warm bowl of soup. Because Brook was determined to have real food cooking throughout the performance, the technical choreography of the show was not only built around how these women move around the stage and their springy dance moves, but it details the critical moments in making the recipe – say, for example, that they must chop an onion at the same time that they deliver a particular line.
Brook said, “my casting premise was to bring together women who were fabulous, extraordinary, strong, beautiful, intelligent women”… kind of like the dream scenario for any dinner party roster. The offbeat but extraordinary coterie includes Nicole Ansari of Deadwood, folk rocker Sadie Jemmet, former Editor of French Vogue, Joan Juliet Buck (most recently seen in Julie & Julia), filmmaker/writer/director Winsome Brown, and violinist Yibin Li. Who wouldn’t want to break bread and share a bottle with these ladies? View a video clip from the show below.
“La Vie Matérielle,” March 11 – 21 • Thursday – Saturday at 8PM • Sundays at 2:30PM
La MaMa Experimental Theater Club 74 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 254-6468
Purchase tickets online here.
More info here.
I played live today (Tuesday 9 March) on Steve Lillywhites show on Lower East Side Radio in NYC!!
I was just wandering by with a guitar, they were doing the show kind of on the street, we started chatting, i had no idea who he was, and he asked me to play! He actually plays a Benny Hill song on his show!… outstanding! You have to listen to the whole show.. no fast forward … its good though! im about an hour in.
Listen here.
Sadie plays The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St., NYC at 8pm on 15th March 2010.
No cover charge. Sadie onstage at 7pm sharp.
