Imogen Heap - iBlog

vBlog #27

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0000

vBlog #26

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:33:00 +0000

vBlog #25

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:46:00 +0000

vBlog #24

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:40:00 +0000

vBlog #23

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:39:00 +0000

vBlog #22

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:38:00 +0000

Not Now But Soon!

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:03:00 +0000

hello you lot.... I'm really nervous (though my mum always told me just before piano exams that this was just a form of excitement) of what you're all going to make of the song in it's entirety. I've never given so much of the making of a song away before and was cautious in the beginning for fear it would spoil the surprise but I just can't help myself. I want you all to hear what I'm up to.

Every now and then I pop my head in here and there to see what you guys are saying about the blogs and all. In a place where it's mostly just me and a screen staring at each other, your words egg me on in all the right ways. I feel the want for it but not angry impatience and drumming fingers, so a big thank you for baring with me! I know some of you are beside yourselves with excitement with "not now but soon".

I really hope it pays off with all this build up! This song is a small window into what the album's going to turn out like. I don't even know myself how it's going to end up. This song may not even end up on the album.

In a fortnight my studio will finally be fully wired up and ready to roll. I can't wait to get fully immersed into the depths of the next 10 or 11 songs and treat each one as much as a complete individual as I dare. The studio has taken so much longer,
soooooooooo much longer than I thought when I started out building it and now I'm really on a race to get the album completed and out to you by the end of the year. My friend's and family tell me I'll manage it as somehow I always do under pressure....this time I'm forcing myself to believe them as the task seems mountainous from where I stand at it's feet. Setting deadlines does have a habit of getting things finished.

More soon as always and a big thank you again to you all xxx love fluv, immi xxx

vBlog #21

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:28:00 +0000

vBlog #20

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:35:00 +0000

vBlog #19

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:33:00 +0000

vBlog #17

noreply@blogger.com (immi) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:09:00 +0000

Happy Christmas everyone. What a fantastic year it's been! One I will never forget. I made it to 30, got my driving license, wrote the new album (mostly) in some wonderful places around the world, made some new friends, made up with old ones, enjoyed the single life, came back to The Round House and have almost finished building the studio for life here. I even managed to get a couple of songs into some films/TV for next year. Not bad going! Thank you all so much for your never ending support and encouragement. I do have a peek at your comments every now and then on the various places you leave them. They really mean a lot to me. I can't wait to make you the most fantastic album next year. I'll keep you right by my side here, throughout the whole process if that's OK with you! :) All my love and here's to a fantastic 2008!!!! xxxxx i xxxxx

Here's the last one before the new year:

vBlog #16

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:30:00 +0000

vBlog #15

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:27:00 +0000

vBlog #14

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:41:00 +0000

vBlog #13

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:08:00 +0000

vBlog #12

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:07:00 +0000

vBlog #11

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:24:00 +0000

vBlog #10

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:32:00 +0000

vBlog #9

noreply@blogger.com (immi) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:18:00 +0000

hello xx no.9 here it is x doorbells and stuff, Ryan's phoenix and mum's special seasoning pot. They all have 'em. Cheers! Enjoy xxx

vBlog #8

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:42:00 +0000

Episode 8 of the vBlog has arrived, check out Immi's 'snake light' and hear about her run in with an angry bumble bee, as well all the latest news from the house of Heap!

vBlog no.7

noreply@blogger.com (immi) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:58:00 +0000

Hello you lot. Here's the next one. Got some good ideas this week that i'll tell you about in my next written iblog. We're still not quite up to date with the timing of these vblogs as this was recorded about 2 weeks ago....but we'll catch up eventually! Plastering of the studio ceiling is taking an age. There goes another week. I'm so itching to get in there when it's all done. Patience Heap! Hope all's well with you. Be in touch soon. Love fluv xxx i xxx

Here's another image that the lovely Jeremy Cowart sent me recently. The photo was taken as part of the same shoot we did over a year ago. That was a nice surprise...really like it, Thank you! x

vBlog no.6

noreply@blogger.com (immi) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:54:00 +0000

For your 6th fixxxx i xxx

vBlog #5

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:57:00 +0000

vBlog #5 is alive!

vBlog #4

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:00:00 +0000

Jogging spiders and vblog no.3

noreply@blogger.com (immi) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:17:00 +0000

Yello y'all.

vblog no.3

The third one's up. Took ages for me to upload it from out here amongst the old trees and fluffy rabbits.
Hope you enjoy it. I'm hearing you about more footage of house etc. In a couple of weeks we'll start to do that a bit more.
I'm still playing catch up on the vblogs as you can see about me talking about the iTunes gig.
Speaking of which...I've heard the recordings of that show and am pretty happy with them. I may even go all out and put the unedited, false starts and all up there. It was such a nice intimate evening and I'd like the whole feeling of the gig to go up. Not sure how we're going to work that as that makes it super long and some people may just want to buy the odd track...but hey.

Jogging...today. First time in far far too long. It coincides with sun filled skies and not fitting into clothes I did last summer. I ran out of the house and as soon as I did, I just found myself actually enjoying it. Why do we put these things off? In fact I got so excited about enjoying it that I was smiling and running which always raises a few eyebrows. Found a lake at the bottom of the park, some fantastic views of london and lots of little paths through the woody bits that I'd never gone down as a kid coz all I wanted to do (not an overstatement) is play the piano. I had NO interest in anything else whatsoever when I lived here as a kid....anyway....half an hour a day, that's all I'm doing. I don't know what's going to happen when it starts to rain but hopefully by then I'll be eating power bars, sporting leotards being so into it that, not going out in the pouring rain for my daily job would be deserving of a stint in the village stocks (which are still there).

Studio's you know...coming along. Not much to report there really. Just got to keep chipping (literally) away. The end of August goal is now looking to be in the other field and more likely to be mid sept before I can get my gnashers stuck in to any noise making. Has to be right though that's what I keep telling myself. This is the studio for life.

Spiders...there are so many of them here. Last night me and the largest house spider I have so far encountered were having stand off in the kitchen by the fridge. Well...it was by the fridge and I wanted to get into it... thankfully my arms are longm like the rest of me, so there was enough room to feel safe that It couldn't crawl up me as I leant across the floor with a bowlfull of leftover salad. Though... this one looked like it could have jumped no problem. It had special powers. So I was talking on the phone while this was going on and then...all of a sudden, with the blink of an eye, there were two the double equally as large. I thought I'd maybe had too much wine until they actually started to fight each other! Crikey. That made me shriek. Then one of them... squeezed itself under the skirting. It was so big that it really had to squish it's way under and seemed to go body first, legs second. I'm sure I can still see one of it's legs there now. Waiting to pounce. I know it's really silly to be afraid of english house spiders. They couldn't hurt anything but a fly. I can't even imagine it hurting me coz I know it's just a spindly leggy arachnid, which what makes it even more unreasonable. Anyway....

Next time...i'll get a little closer and a little closer until soon enough, me and my 8 legged friends will be going for jogs together in the park and joking at the dinner table.

Love fluv.
immi xxx

p.s. for those of you about in London on Thursday night, Nitin'sdoing this great thing in Trafalgar Sq at 9pm. here have a look. It's free too! xx

p.p.ssst... Levi, who Is mentioned in the video is not Levi of the Weaver variety but of the Marquis. He's helping me out with getting me and my studio organized. Levi Weaver's a whole other kettle (of fish).