Thanks ! A nice word about my voice is always a pleasure, especially when he comes from someone with a beautiful voice like you !

Seems that you're not alone on HNN to be curious about Mamie. I'll translate it, and try to do it soon, otherwise, I'll forget.

I've been waiting for the last two we recorded for 4 weeks now ; the sound engineer is suppose to send them to me, master. I hope I can have a little EP, at last.

You've got a beautiful, warm, voice.

I wanted to suggest a capo, because your high notes sound especially good (and it seems that in the beginning you're at your down-notes limit), but the high notes are very high, so I doubt it's possible to sing even higher.

Nice tune, beautiful voice.

Danke schön !

I had a pleasant day indeed, and should have a pleasant one tomorrow to. Kids woke up and went to bed later and later the past few days, so everyone should be able to be up at midnight.

Bis bald !

I wish you a very happy birthday, a a great time with your family.

Tot ziens !

Danke schön !

Wow, you've been quick !

Thanks, Bernd. Years pass, and you never forget.

Happy birthday, Matthew !

I was delighted to hear 2 Glow Stars songs in Turnhout.

Redbird and South seem to be the forgotten albums. Either Heather knows the fans aren't found of them, or she doesn't connect to the songs any more.

Heather hadn't played Save A Little Piece For Tomorrow that much, but I guess the willing to have a rock set perfectly fitted to the song. Personally, I don't listen to it on the album (well, I barely don't listen to 300 Days any more), but I really like it live.

Wonderful !

If she ever comes back here, I may, but unfortunately, I doubt she does. And I'm absolutely unknown.

Gauchy, near St-Quentin.
South tour.

Near my hometown, I once played on the very same stage Heather did (she did almost 20 years ago). If she returned there, I' stalk the boss of the place until she lets me open for her .


(Well, I more than doubt that she ever returns)

A video of me in the Papercup may have stayed on youtube all over the years...

It was possibly this one.

Yes, indeed.

Thanks !

Btw, as 57Arietis said, lyrics are really hard to remember, so not having to thing about the chords is a nice balance for my little brain.
When O write this song, I meant it to be played with some other musician, whose purpose would be to break the musical monotony. I hope I will play with someone again soon.

I'm very proud of the lyrics. but unfortunately, it's totally untranslatable.

It's quite hard to remember indeed, for a name with another (or with 3 others) make sense, but the whole thing isn't definitely a story.

Indeed, we started over several times just because I got lost and sung the wrong name (which wouldn't necessarily have been noticeable, but distracted me and led me to wrong notes or a blank in the singing.

One more French song, which means absolutely nothing if sou try to translate it.
It's made of sentences just made out names.

Estellem - Facebook

One more, in French, just like almost all of my songs : my Facebook page

For the previous song, i forgot to thank Cass, who helps me each time I write a song in English, pointing the mistakes or the weaknesses in the lyrics, which helps me to improve the whole thing.

Thank you for the sweet words.

You're so nice, with the comment about my accent ! I blamed myself for losing so much on this point, this afternoon, but when I read that it's "lovely", it helps me being ok with it.

Hi !

Today, a new session, in English this time. The problem is that I need to have a real conversation in English to get back a decent accent, and I hadn't had any real conversation before recording... so the accent is bad, and it annoys me quite a bit. Still the song is not bad, I guess, and I took some Heather words here and there.

Estellem on Facebook

Short show !

I corrected it.

Happy birthday, Johan !

I hope you're feeling better now !

The CD was not on sale yesterday - too bad, I would have bought it...

Great, great show yesterday, with 2 Glow Stars songs... had we had Sugar as a second encore, it would have been perfect !

My Fidelity and Sugar ; good ! I hope we'll have them in Turnhout.

Seems Heather didn't played Sugar yet on this tour ?

Btw :

Songs About Other Specific People
Walking Higher - Heather's Grandma
Valley Of Sound - Jeff Buckley
The Abandon
One Day In June
(Let's Not Talk About Love?)
You Left Me A Song
I Wanna Be Your Light
When The Music Stops
Singing You Through
Girl On The Mountain - a friends of hers
My Father - her father
Drive Away

I knew, for You Left Me A Song. but I forgot.

I like it !

If every mass production thing were of this quality, my ears would be grateful everytime I am in a supermarket or a shop.

Well done !

If she does, you'll erase this message.

Thanks for your kind offer, I'd be very curious to see it, indeed.

I'll have a look.

Thanks for noticing.

I'll edit the post if need be.

Heather played indeed a dangerous game, presenting Pearl as Oyster II.

Yes, but I had pushed a button by mistake, I "edited" Gerd's post instead of "relpying" it.

I noticed that today, so remove my asnwxer from Gerd's post an pasted my reply in a proper post.

If I am going to see a pub owner, and say "hey, I can come and play gig in your pub" and give him a deo with a lot of midi instruments, the bar owner won't know what it's like to have me playing in his pub : will I come with some other musicians ? Midi background ? Or just my guitar, but what will it sound like ?

If I come with demos like those on Facebook, what he hears is what he gets, which is much better for the pusposes I seek for now.

Yes, I remember midi was very convenient when we did recordings a decade ago.

Now, I need organic demos, in order to show people who might ask me to play in their pubs or so what it's like if I play live.