@_oliviarafferty

songwriter who's into rocks 🌋 wrote 100 tiny songs 🎶 now writing an album about geology 🌈 subscribe to my newsletter ↓

 London, England
oliviarafferty.substack.com/
Joined December 2008
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So excited to announce that I've been awarded funding by @GeolAssoc to make an album about geology! 🌋✨ The project will be out later this year, until then, sign up to my newsletter to keep up to date with the whole process of making the album: oliviarafferty.substack.com/
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🎹🪄 WE RECORDED AN ALBUM. 🪨🌋 Read about the studio experience, recording songs on geological themes (ice age floods, subducting plates, etc). Album coming 2024! Many thanks to @GeolAssoc for making this project possible 🪄🌋✨ Read the newsletter: linktr.ee/olivia_rafferty
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emotionally, I am this small penguin on fire from Superman II
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this is so helpful. also feel that UK music grant bodies are looking for numbers numbers numbers
brodieconley@brodieconley4 Jul 2023
THREAD!: I'm currently jurying grant submissions related to single and album releases. Here's a (long!) thread of what bums me out, what I'd love to see more of, and structural issues we need to solve!
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why do jam bands foster such intense, dedicated audiences? people who follow King Gizzard and bands like Phish seem about as fanatical as K-pop stans and I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE SECRET IS
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me watching Superman 1979 over the weekend and it taking all Sunday
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been watching the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and pausing every so often to draw a lil bit
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my hobby is trying new cafes and then mentally blacklisting them once I realise the coffee is overcooked
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god give me strength to do this again
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this is nuts. man is frantically scrabbling for coattails to ride on here
Fiona Sturges@FionaSturges2 Jul 2023
Man dates woman. Man and woman split up. Man now LIVID that woman's career has taken off without him. Doug, who now has a fiancé (but possibly not for long), does not cover himself in glory here. thetimes.co.uk/article/my-we…

My Wet Leg lover gave me the boot — and won’t stop kicking

Doug Richards started the chart-topping band with Rhian Teasdale but was pushed out after their bitter split. Now she belts out songs full of jibes at him, while he says he’s had no credit for the...

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needs to be stretched a bit so the Horniman can be included in Chaotic Good
Alex Daish@alexdaish2 Jul 2023
After 10 years of living in London, I think I have finally cracked it.
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happy monday i gotta start writing new funding applications and not lose momentum
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I miss the days when there were 5 things to learn and it was Space, Mona Lisa, Dolphins, Sports and Pyramids
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✨ olivia rafferty ✨🏔@_oliviarafferty29 Jun 2023
my favourite @mountain_goats song, perhaps. had a stolen moment at the piano this week to play it through 🐍 🌧️
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my 4 songs are: 1. i love you but also check out this rock 2. life advice and household objects 3. Counting Crows Capo on 3 4. what if we kissed.... in the folky dream sequence?
Pacing@pacingmusic29 Jun 2023
Wait I think this a really fun game. Here are the four songs I write: 1. Lonely Cowboy is pissed that people don't understand him 2. Dramatic character introduction song (snake, mafia, pornstar, you know) 3. I am having a panic attack (in C#) 4. Spooky condescending folk song
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yeah I know how to EQ
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The Ophelias@theophelias29 Jun 2023
do you know how to play barre chords? no, but I know kindness. i know friendship. i know love. i know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. i know how to hold Infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.
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asked this to a workmate and he said 'yes,' i asked him what the first step would be & now he's silently watching a youtube video on How To Land a Plane
✨ olivia rafferty ✨🏔@_oliviarafferty26 Jun 2023
i saw somewhere that if you ask men if they think they can land a commercial plane, 100% of them will say "yes"
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this general feeling is gonna have a resurgence
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PC CD ROM meets 1990s global village coffeehouse meets Dave McKean collage meets crumpled up paper meets cosy existentialism meets 2000s abandoned warehouse butterflies meets livejournal collage
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Brian Jordan Alvarez
@brianjoralvarez29 Jun 2023
so you’re telling me they made a statue of us? 🤔🤔🤔 and put it on a mountaintop??? 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
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