I'm on fire is so cute. She mentioned Nadia there!
I think a cello still so much fits to Heather's voice, her lyrics, her music, her entire emotions.

This performance can be downloaded with Downloadhelper.
The video is left to right flipped, don't know why.
Anyway, thanks to Heather for this free live performance!

It looks like this tour is getting quite big in terms of time, more than 4 weeks, starting in January and ending in March! I bought 2 tickets so far around a weekend, want to save as much free time as possible. Lets see if some German tour dates will appear, which I might can join without the need to get days off from work.

Seems like there is a tour in February 2014. Here the gig in Eindhoven:

http://www.muziekgebouweindhoven.nl/detail/1608/heather-nova



Thanks to Ton for this information.

Got this link from Felix.

How to Save the Music Industry

Quote:

Woow! Have fun, sugarbaby! Simply believe in yourself and your love to music. Feel like being at home! And even when a few people don't like your music or even don't understand your songs, it's their problem!
So there is nothing that can go wrong!

thanks. I know the recording. thought it was presented on our Christmas Specials, no? Think there is a better recording available so.

Ocean Floor!

Night blooming sound interesting as well so!

Is there any link to it? can't find it in this thread. anyway I think i know the video, maybe not? Where is the link?

Your account has been deleted, Markus!

with a post like this or by PM to an admin or email to the runner of this website, me.

Thanks that you have joined. All the best for the future!
Your account wil be deleted in a few minutes.

Gerd

Nice concert although the songs and setlist was well predictable.

Had the luck to meet Heather some hours before backstage, or to say better underneath the stage. She asked me "how is life?" and I realized in this moment there is much to improve.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes!
I'm enjoying my little vacations at home, still 3 days left and the weather is pretty perfect these days for me, not to hot not to cold and only a few people in the public open air bath. Time to do lots of sports, swimming, rowing ...

I haven't been online for plenty of month, but i thought i need to share my opinion what happened recently in Russia.

There is a girlie punk band that recently performed for a few seconds in a russian church, praying that Putin, the president, should go away.

They now have to be in prison for 2 years, which might be in Russia even more brute than in western countries.

Putin said, there should be mild judgement. It was not which was announced today.

It is so assuming that he wants to play the gentlemen role to free them earlier. This stupid dictator is so predictable.
Anyway currently have to face prison for another 1.5 years.

I wish Russia to get a free of any dictatorship! Good luck to the people in Russia who work on it!

Sounds like an US tour is coming soon!

Just wonder that birthday wishes are only thanked when sent via Twitter. Anyway I will not sign in again on Twitter. Doesn't fit to my life.

I should stop to send a birthday email. Those were always unanswered.

Here is a new Twitter message by Heather:

"thanks for birthday wishes! leaving for europe on weds. shows in austria and antwerp. looking good for US soon. more to follow! xx"

12:16 PM - 14 Jul 12 via Twitter for iPad

It's not up to Heather how often she will be booked in the given time frame!

In about 4 hours, the performances of Heather Nova at TV Noir will be aired in HD Quality on ZDFKultur. ZDFKultur has no encryption, can be watched by everone in Europe who can receive the Astra Satellite.

Very nice performance. Thank you for the link!

There is a quite new interview from end of March 2012 with Heather Nova on Circles On The Water. Heather already commented on Twitter about the project.

Here is the direct link to the interview:
Heather Nova - A deep Ocean Soul

With kind permission of Circles On The Water here is the interview:



Sanderz: You consider an album as “a complete body of work”. Assuming the body has a soul, how would you describe the soul of your latest album “300 Days at Sea”?

Heather: Oh boy, that’s a good question. A deep ocean soul. Pretty much all the songs in there refer to the ocean in some way. That’s part of my soul. I come from the sea right from when I was very little. It was nice to make a record that really expresses that connection.

Sanderz: So you are intrinsically linked to the sea as a common thread in your life and work. Figuratively speaking, what would Heather Nova be on dry land?

Heather: (laughs) A fish out of water. You know, it’s funny because I grew up on a sailboat travelling around and now I travel on a tour bus, so I kind of do it on dry land. I lived in London for 15 years. That’s where I started my career. It was a great place for me, it really worked. I met a lot of people that were helping me with my career; a great band, management and a record deal. But after I’d been living there for a number of years I just started to feel this thing deep inside that I needed to go back to where I came from, to that little island. Before I had this realization, I was touring the world and thought I would find the perfect place to live. I saw a lot of places, but in the end what I really needed to do was go back to that small island life. So that’s what I did.

Sanderz: Your home and studio are solar powered; Being dependent on the sun as your energy provider means living and working in another rhythm. How do you practically adapt to the sun?

Heather: We are tied into the grid, but we’re still very energy conscious. A 6 Kwh solar panel system powers our house. It takes care of all of our power, but we have to be careful not to run the dryer too much or something like that, so we hang the clothes on the line. I think conscious living is important and it’s wonderful to be using power knowing that it’s coming from the sun. It’s just such a good feeling. And also financially it made sense. Where I live, in Bermuda, they have the highest electricity bills in the world. But also:” Here we are in this sunny place, why isn’t everybody doing this?” Believe it or not, we were some of the first people there to power their home with solar energy.

Sanderz: “Everything changes” is a very positive outlook on life’s adversities. How does making music contribute to this philosophy?

Heather: Well, making music allows you to go into the sadness and the painful parts of your life. It allows you to feel that pain and then you can come out the other side. That’s how I feel and ‘Everything Changes’ was written actually out of a painful situation. Sometimes when you go into music it can be melancholy but out of that you can feel this little ray of hope.

Sanderz: Is there an essential difference between expressing a topic through song rather than through conversation?

Heather: For me it’s completely different. I write about things in my songs that I don’t share with anybody. It’s like a landscape that I feel totally at home in and totally free to express myself. I don’t feel that way when I have conversations with people.

Sanderz: From your single “Higher Ground”, raising awareness for the work of Matt George’s Last Mile Operations, the key phrase is: “It’s you who lift me to higher grounds.” Can you tell me something about his work and why you were inspired to write about it?

Heather: We all hear about things in the news that are terrible, and we emphatize with the people that suffer and their situations, but we carry on with our lives passively. And here was this guy, Matt George, originally a surfer and a writer for Surfer Magazine, who heard about this Tsunami and said “I’m going to get out there to help.” He got on the plane with some friends -they were surfers too- and went out to Indonesia where there was this big tsunami in 2004. On the outer island there were people that weren’t reached by the aid organizations. So they hired a boat, went out to these islands that were hard to reach and took relief and medical supplies out to these people. From there he started his organization “Last Mile” that helps to go the last mile where the large aid organizations aren’t reaching. I thought he was an inspiration to us all because of that proactive attitude and sort of selflessness. That was inspiring to me. I read an article that he had written and someone asked him why he did what he did. He said that it was for the look in the eyes of the people that he saved. It lifted him to higher grounds and I thought that was a very beautiful sentiment.

Sanderz: How can you compare this phrase to how you perceive writing music?

Heather: The same thing happens, I mean I’m not doing so much good for the world. You cannot compare it to saving lives. But a live concert situation is a good example because although you are there singing the music it’s really the energy from the people and their emotional response that matters. It’s this give and take thing. You realize you’re part of a process and it’s not because you’re up on the stage that you’re the only one contributing. Everyone is part of it, the listeners, the people making the music and that’s a beautiful thing. I don’t know if I’m putting this into words very well, but (laughs) again, maybe I should write a song about it.

Sanderz: “Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow” is a song about how global warming could affect the future of your son Sebastian. “To swim over rooftops” feels like the premonition of another Atlantis. How do you -accept or act- on the inability to control the future you want for your child in the matter of global warming?

Heather: Having a child in general teaches you that you have to let go a lot and realize that you can’t control fate. You want to protect him all the way through his live and never let anything happen, but you can’t. It’s this huge lesson in acceptance but at the same time you feel you would die for him. I don’t think of ”Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow” as a political song. It’s from an emotional place of saying, “I don’t want you to grow up and have to swim over your childhood home.” So I will do what I can even though it’s a very small part. I’ll do my best to stop that from happening.

Sanderz: Climate change harbors many threats for Bermuda’s future. Living on a relatively small island and practically on sea-level, what are the adaptations made by organizations or local authorities to combat the environmental changes?

Heather: It’s starting, but it’s slow. We recycle now, but that’s something you probably are doing for like 30 years. In Bermuda it’s more recent. There’s a good organization there called ‘GreenRockin’. They do a lot in the community to promote awareness and conscious living. It’s starting. They don’t have grocery bags in the stores anymore. You have to bring your own bag. That’s a big step.

Sanderz: ‘Stop the fire ’ is a direct appeal to stop gang related violence in Bermuda. Have you received any feedback on that song?

Heather; No, I didn’t really advertise it so much in Bermuda. I wrote the song from a feeling that I had. It’s difficult. It’s a sensitive subject. You don’t want to sound like you’re preaching to someone. The angle of the song is: Maybe we don’t understand each other, maybe we need to break down the barriers and have compassion for people who had a rough childhood. The violence is caused because they haven’t had the nurturing and the love that they need. That’s where it starts. So we need to help everybody in the community to be more cared for. I’m involved in some organizations in Bermuda who help to inspire the youth there, because if they don’t have something positive to put their energy into, it turns negative. We help to find them their creative voices and stuff like that.

Sanderz: The question we ask all interviewees: What do you do in your daily live to reduce your carbon footprint?

Heather: Like I said, we have solar power, we recycle, I do use my own bags, but I find it hard as an artist to reconcile being a green person. Artists are some of the worst emitters, because when they tour their carbon footprint is so big. Not to mention all the cd-packaging and all the cd’s. That’s the good thing about digital distribution. So I’m happy about that. We’re not like this kind of production (referring to Bryan Adams performing in the background). I tour with just one bus, but still I think it would be nice if there was a different way, because it’s hard to talk about climate change and then travel around Europe in a bus. You have to balance it and I guess that’s what I’m doing with the solar panels.

Sanderz: Thanks so much!

Welcome likeahurricane!
Thanks so much for sharing the wonderful videos! Amazing quality!

Yes, shot by me in Hanau, Germany on August 25th 2005. This photo is available on Wikipedia for everyone and used already for plenty of promotions.

A message from Heather:


Hi Friends

Please see below a fundraiser that I am taking part in to raise money for The Bermuda Sloop Foundation, which i consider to be one of the most important organisations on the island, as it helps to inspire and educate our youth. For more info on the Bermuda Sloop you can visit www.bermudasloop.org
90 percent of the funds raised will go to the Spirit of Bermuda educational programs, and the other 10 percent will go to the medical expenses of a 15 year old crew member battling leukemia.

The flyer explains how it works. Please don't make me walk the plank!

Thanks for supporting a great cause.

Love
Heather

Attach file:

---

  Friend Family and Colleague Support Request - HN.jpg (459.83 KB)

I love Heather rocking, i love Heather singing great lyrics and I especially love if Heather touches with lyrics and music. I'm not fond if she goes too commercial.
Beautiful Ride is commercial but one of the better songs, has some speed, which I like. Do Something That Scares You is the best song from the album in terms of rocking. Everything chances is the best in term of lyrics from the album for me.
For this semifinal it's clear, Do Something!

Stay is a song when you are already in love, or you are just dreaming of it.

Everything changes is about understanding life and emotions, therefore much more complicated to understand. Once you understand, you will love it much more than Stay!

Consider it when you vote!

Send an email to Cass or just post here that you changed your mind!