london may 2010

what a week! accomplished so much. just to think, at the end of february of this year i had finished "pop to opera star", went back to l.a. and took about a week off [after all, what's a careeraholic to do??]. then, i looked at the irish prayer that dear michael bradley sent me some time ago and suddenly, the melody came to me. I had been wanting to write music to that prayer for the longest time. i also had a title for a song called, "all is forgiven" and put the two together, and the song was born. i then asked my friend ed shearmur [who co-wrote one of the shakespear's sister songs with us, "i don't care"] if he would help me with it, doing an arrangement and if he could help me record it to which he replied yes. he did a fantastic job; i wanted the production to be more on the classical side which he did very well, though it still has a sort of pop sensibility. i wanted to do this as an "homage" to the pop to opera experience which rekindled my love and appreciation for classical music. ed recreated some of the song and i wanted to give him some writers credit. so, here we are, may 17th, i came to england on the 8th of may, and I've been doing loads of promo for "all is forgiven"; a fantastic radio day last week that my pr person set up. bbc breakfast last monday and they actually showed a good snippet of the video. i think I was on for about 15 minutes which was much more time than i thought I'd be on. it was great, is great, and I'm grate-full! so, then I did the moonwalk event for the walk the walk charity and played "all is forgiven" just after the moment of silence. I decided to officially release it on the day of the gig, may 15th. i also decided to give walk the walk 25% of the proceeds for their cause, raising funds for breast cancer causes. such a great and humbling experience.
now, in my hotel/apt. contemplating this week; i did "smooth radio" network interview today. this goes out all across the midlands of the uk. on friday I'll be doing "magic" radio network with the amazing dave lee travis. more stuff coming this weekend which i'll talk about once it's confirmed.
now it's time to rest my careeraholic brain. attending an event tomorrow, having a meet with a good friend to talk about my doing a surprise gig in london before i leave on may 31st!

more to follow

love, peace, gratitude;

marcy xo