What is forgiveness? People talk about it as an act… something you do, like going to the shops or making a cup of tea… People ask to be forgiven as if you have a choice – as if it is a tap you can switch on or off…
I say forgiveness is a place. A place you arrive at when you have fully realised and processed whatever it was that needed to be forgiven. It is a beautiful, peaceful landscape you suddenly find yourself in after a very long hard drive.
Check this video out — Toots & the Maytals 54-46 was my number.
I’ve just seen the genius that is Toots and the Maytals… Saw them last year at the forum and this year in a smaller venue but it was the same. From the minute Toots walks on stage there is Love in the room.. and you are swept up into a frenzied state of unity… words and music… mingle and merge into one pulsating beat and you go into a trance lke state.. you are transfixed by Toots Hibbert… by his energy… by his Love … by his sheer force of being.. and yet it appears effortless on his part, I think because, for him that love and that unity and that power is always there. It is a pool that he can tap into at any time… and it is called Reggae Music.
I’ll be performing with Amy Speace at The Borderline London. Mean Fiddler has offered special Sadie Fan ticket price which should net down to less than a fiver!! Follow the link.
See you there.
love, Sadie x
The Borderline Orange Yard, off Manette Street, London W1D 4JB Ticket hotline: 0844 847 2465
Been playing at a Bob Fest at the Torrianon in Camden tonight… An open night for Bob musician freeks to come and play his songs in honour of his birthday…. my head is full of his words and melodies …sung with such love and reverence in such different ways.. .. by so many different people. and this is what music is all about … celebration and unity.. connecting .. hearing a line that makes you think ‘yeah! i know that.. i understand what that feels like’.
“you do what you must do.. and you do it well. I do it for you a honey baby can’t you tell”
I’m sorry for the things i said i wasn’t thinking straight theres a muddle in my head i thought how could i ever be enough for you? when its so hard for me to trust you see….
Once upon a time a little girl baby was born to very chaotic and bohemian parents in a tumbled down cottage in a little village outside cambridge called harston. the girl baby spent a lot of time on her own roaming the flatlands of cambridgeshire while her parents had complicated hippy lives and left her to her own devices. The girl loved to sing and make up stories and one day she found an old harp left at the cottage by a travelling minstrel friend of her parents, the little girl started to make up songs on this old harp and although the harp was quite out of tune she managed to engage people and sang songs that people actualy listened to…
Years went by and the girl grew, she had many adventures along the way, and learnt to play the guitar and the dulcimer (as they were easier to carry around than the harp!) she had a little baby girl herself who started to make up songs on the piano.
Then one day…. she returned !!! to do a radio show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on 22nd May with Sue Marchant on air @7.30pm and then…. a gig at the Boathouse, 14 Chesterton Rd on stage 9.30pm