Julia

Julia

Some days after Berlin we’re having field excursions. Hauke is going to Prague, I’m going to Italy. Visit some islands, vulcanos, great! But I still need a new bikini for that.. because somewhere on one of the mountains there’s a “sulphur bath”.  And once in.. you don’t get rid of the smell!

but now it’s time to get back to work!
More to coooome!!

Julia <3

it’s been months since i posted a new post or vid on youtube.. but here it is! snow patrol with my street – band ! we performed several times during our winter vacations. and that’s one of the songs..  [Click here] to listen!

love and more to come  !
Julia

I know I haven’t posted any new videos for some months.. Sorry for that. but i just didn’t have the time/calm..

During my stay in Korea I wrote some new texts. They’re totally different to the songs I’ve written before.. they’re more philosophical.
And one of them is already complete with melodie/chords etc.. And this time it’s with the piano. I still have to figure out how to put the mic on the piano.. and so on. But hopefully soon.

Now to the band, we had some performances so far, and we still have a lot of meetings til Rome. Well.. just 2 weeks left. And til then we have a lot to do.. But beside that we’re going to two concerts.. I’m looking forward to that. I’m not quite sure if I told you who’s in the band.. ? well, we’re 6 singer (4 female and 2 male) and 5 musicians (e-bass, piano, drums, sax, synthesizer/vibraphone)
here a link to some pics of our latest performance from sunday :  [click]

beside our band work, we had our choir concerts at school! we sang songs by Michael Jackson, Kelly Clarkson.. and so on.. so pretty good songs. I think. And I sang ‘my everything’ with our school band. it went pretty well I think. Although I was almost collapsing on stage haha …

as you might see.. although school has almost finished and no more exams left, I have a lot to do.. Today I’m probably gonna meet a friend and later there’s a kind of … night of culture at my school.
So far for now.. I hope I’m gonna post more often some stuff on here..

Hope you’re all fine!!
Much love,
Julia

It’s been some time since I came home from Prague. And I can tell you, Prague is soo wonderful with it’s beautiful art nouveau buildings everywhere.. my mom says, it’s the most beautiful town to her. But I think every town has got it’s own charm, and it seems to me like a perfect mixture of Paris and Istanbul..  We’ve been pretty much sight seeing.. little exhausting, but really nice!
We’ve been in an exhibition of “Mucha”.. his paintings are very special. Well, actually he didn’t paint. He made posters for a french actress. Lovely storie how he became famous over night, his life in Prague… I’ve already seen an exhibition with his works in Montpellier. I really like them. You should look for them sometime !
I think you guys already heard about Franz Kafka, right? In Prague was a new exhibition.. it’s been special and different to other’s I’ve been visiting before. The room with his letters and pictures of him were made so.. real. The sounds, the decoration, a corridor with drawers to pull out and read his letters. All this made you feel like him.. well propably not really like him, but you started to understand him. Although his books are hard to read (I think). But the way of thinking, he must have had, is fascinating to me.
In the end, I bought a Franz Kafka notebook, where I wrote down all my songs and the one’s I’m working on.
It’s been really nice to spent those days just with my mom. My sister had to learn for her final exams and my dad worked..
here some pics from Prague:

Today was a kinda tough day for me.. I had a little lowpoint this morning at school, but the evening I went out with a friend. Just went to a bar nearby and talked a lot. I appreciate those moments..

In school we’re translating Seneca right now. I love to interpret philosophic texts, but the translation’s always little hard for me..
the texts are about moral – the relation between mind and body etc.. but somehow I think out teacher just wants to translate them and not really to interpret. Nevertheless I have my own thoughts about them..
What do you think about philosophy?

Between, I have a new guitar now! It’s almost the same I got before.. but the wood is brighter and it’s with a sound pick-up.
I haven’t recorded new songs til now.. I have some new lyrics, but I’m still working on the melodie and the chords etc.. I think I’m gonna upload two of them with the piano. They’re more calm songs than I wrote before. It’s a little change, totally different chords, maybe melancholic.. you’ll hear it then !

I hope you all are fine !!

Much love,
Julia

I have some interesting things to tell you !
First of all, we had our first two performances with the band!! ( I think I haven’t told you before..our name’s WAKE UP ) We haven’t been playing our own songs, but some songs we’re going to perform in summer on August 1st in Rome, Italy!! Here’s our Myspace link: [click] soon we’ll have some records up.. maybe in 2 weeks..
On the page you can also find all our next performances.. exciting !!
We have a facebook fanpage as well: [click]
In this video you can see the band for about 2 sec at 0.16 [click]

I’m really looking forward to Rome.. aff
But now I passed all the exams and thankfully we’re having holidays now.  Actually I should get my stuff together and start packing my bag for tomorrow. I’m going to visit Prag with my mum for about 5 days! I really need that now..
As soon as I’m back I’ll upload some pics to show you where I’ve been etc..

I’m sorry I haven’t uploaded a new video yet. I’ve been ill the last few weeks and I still got a cold, so my voice .. wasn’t really in the mood to sing with me. After our holidays (in 1,5 weeks) I’ll go to our guitar shop to get me a new one. Today my guitar teacher gave me one of his’ . Hopefully Ican give it back to him soon! And I hope I’ll find the time to record a piano-version-song.
I thought of recording “Droplets” again.. Because that song has been one of the first songs I’ve uploaded. And maybe there’s been some musical progress I’ve been through. So it could be a really different version.  What do you think about that?

Now .. here’s a beautiful song my dear penpal Trine from Norway showed me some days ago. I really like this song..
“Walls” – Susanne Sundfør [click]

it’s 1am now and I have to do some stuff now.. packing.. ranging.. aff .. hopefully sleeping..

Happy easter to you all!!!

Much love,
Julia <3

it’s been some exhausting weeks and I hadn’t really time to post some new blogs. Right now I should learn maths for the exam tomorrow, but okay.. a while to tell you what I’ve been up to the last time.
To be honest my life consisted mainly of school. I wrote some exams and had to prepare / hold a 45 min presentation.. and tomorrow maths. But after that it’ll be little more relaxing and more time for friends/songwriting..
Right now my guitar‘s kinda broken so it’s just in it’s box (the temperature during winter was too dry and now the body is broken.. which means, is has  a bulge which goes inside the guitar. normally it should be to the outside.. okay, this is hard for me to explain in english I hope you understand anyway what I’m talking about )
So I’ve been playing a lot the piano the last time. Not my classic pieces I should learn for the lessons.. but some other songs where I looked for the chords first.
I have another version of “All of my Heart” for piano as well. Maybe I’m going to upload it sometime. Not sure bout that yet.. it’s with different chords/melodie. But I thought the one I uploaded now was more optimistic.
About my baaaand: it’s going pretty well so far! We’ve been playing  ‘My Everything’ and ‘All of my Heart’. We made some test takes, but soon we’ll record them rightiously.. But first we’re practising for our performance in the big church here. it’s on march 27th I think. It’s a church service where we’re going to play/sing some songs during this ‘world-youth-day-church-service’. I hope you know what I mean..
There’ll be some more big performances all in relation to our performance we’re going to have in Rome this summer.
Just so you know, I’m not the front singer. I decided to stay background..cause in Rome’ll be about 11.000 people – and that’s little too.. too..too much for me. So we’re 4 background singer and 1 front. It’ll be great.
Next friday!! Guess who’s performing in our “jazz haus” (=jazz house) ???
Marit Larsen!!! gooosh… I’m really really looking forward to see her live performing. My sister and my mum gave me 2 cards for her concert as a birthday present. So I’m going there with Chris, my best friend
the other band members will be there too, so that’ll be great to experience that concert with them..
Theeen saturday, Ari and I’ll go to a friend of us at 4pm to start our dvd-night. Yeah I know. at 4pm ! Propably we’re going to sleep early ..who knows. but nooo.. we’ll try to stay awake.
Then on sunday, I’ll have another band meeting at 12pm. It’ll be a tough weekend, but I’m looking forward to it

Well nooow.. I have to keep on learing maths for tomorrow.
I hope y’all are fine and that you’ll have a great week

Love to you.

Julia