NEW blog and free songs at www.fionakernaghan.com!

Hi, guys!

Just a quickie from me to let you know that my blog full of musical meanderings and musings on the music industry and songwriting is now online at

www.fionakernaghan.com

Get a FREE song when you sign up to my mailing list there on the "contact" page as well!

Cheers,
F.

New Official Website with free music and lots more!..

(Ross Wilson and I backstage at The Vanguard/and at The Sydney Opera House.)



It's been ages since my last post - but I haven't dropped off the face of the earth! I've been rehearsing for gigs and traveling to Sydney and getting a new web site built... Yay!

At the new web site you'll find all the latest gig info as well as videos, blogs, bio info and podcasts. The video page features the "City Of Angels" video clip, a live acoustic performance on Channel Nine's "Mornings With Kerri-Anne" and even an old rarity... My dad's tv commercial from 1979, with me aged 6 in the intro sitting on our horse, Geronimo, and saying "Hello ladies and gentlemen. I'd like you to take a listen to my daddy's new record..." lol!

We have free podcasts for you to listen to online or download and keep in your ipod etc,. The first podcasts are all about the making of my new record, "Shadow Wine and Truth Lilies" and the inspiration behind the songs on the record. Coming up we'll have conversations with my family where we'll swap notes on the music industry and what it was like growing up in a very non conventional and musical family.

Of course there is an online shop as well where you can buy "Shadow Wine and Truth Lilies" and the "Feeling Fiona" compilation cd. The price is $15 U.S ( a bargain at about $17 Australian!) There is a currency converter on the shopping cart which accepts credit cards from anywhere in the world.

More news!

I just got back from Sydney where I opened for homegrown legend, Ross Wilson, at The Vanguard. What a funky and cool club that is! It's got a sexy, budoir feel to it with red walls and feather trimmed lamps along the bar. I used to drink Jack Daniels on stage a lot but this time we cracked out a box of Lindt Balls and shard them around the crowd before we played "For The Love Of You" (The ChocoIate Song) - it was such fun! I really enjoyed the gig and send out a big thanks to everyone who came along and made it a great night. I know it's a bit testing sometimes to unload a whole set of original songs on a crowd - songs no one knows yet - so it was a joy and a pleasure to feel such a warm reaction from the packed house. Good on ya Sydney siders!

www.fionakernaghan.com

GIRLS ROCK RADIO!

I got some great news today! An online radio station from the U.S has added 2 of my songs to their playlist! "Taken" and "Where The Wild Things Are" are both now on regular rotation on the oh so cool, "Girls Rock Radio" - "The Soundtrack
For Your Awesome Life!" lol!

Here's some info about the station...

"My name is Mot, and I run the station from the Girls Rock Radio studios in south central Wisconsin, USA -- a suburb of our capital city, Madison WI, called Middleton. It's my goal to keep the station living up to its tag line, "Hot, Sexy, and way too much Fun !!" while giving you great depth of music from today's all-girl or girl-fronted bands."

To listen online go to their web site and choose your player - it's easy.

www.girlsrockradio.com

Bye for now,
F.
x

"ARTIST OF THE WEEK" THIS WEEK ON THE GOLD COAST'S 107.3FM !

DJ and radio personality, Benni Mihan, at Life 107.3 fm on the Gold Coast (QLD Australia) invited me to be their "Artist Of The Week" week so I'm excited about that! It means 107.3 will air a segment of the interview we recorded last week every night THIS week.

We talked about a bunch of things like how I got started song writing right through to finding myself at Russell Crowe's post Oscar party at the Bel Air Hotel in LA a few years back. Surreal! lol!

I'm looking forward to hearing the new single, "Tonight" go to air with them as well!

Yep, we've decided to send out a new single to radio next week. I love "Tonight" and the big chorus and Dan's rockin' guitar solo on that track. I hope people out there might dig it like we do.

The Missing Bath Tub and The Maharishi

It's a windy and rainy Sunday night as I type this and I'm wishing we had a bath tub in this apartment... what kind of condo doesn't come with a bath? Crazy!
Dan and I've been talking a lot about getting my web site revamped and hope to do that soon - with decent media players so we can post podcasts for you to listen to. I want to tell some stories about my wacky childhood and Dad's Jet powered truck... and how I came to be the fringe dweller I am. lol!
We had a great Valentine's Day - we went out to a lovely seafood restaurant and had mussels, scallops, oysters and champagne. Yum. Dan surprised me with this envelope at dinner - he said I'd been wanting this for years and I couldn't think for the life of me what he was talking about... But I'm so wrapped! It is a gift voucher for a Shirodhara Ayurvedic treatment at a spa near us! This is an ancient Ayurvedic beauty and health treatment that is supposed to be very calming and cleansing - I think it involves warm oil being poured on your third eye area for about an hour and finishes with a head massage. One of my best friends has had it and says it's quite transcendental. I can't wait!
Speaking of transcendental, I hear the Maharishi, founder of TM, kicked the frame. I was initiated into the practice of transcendental meditation in the late 90's and I'll be eternally grateful for what it's brought me - thanks, guru, for your intrepid spirit and the teachings you brought to the west!
Well, I'm gonna finish this bottle of Semillon and watch an Australian comedy on the mad box (Australian for "TV") tonight.
Cheers,
Fiona.
x

"It is for education of today's world to realize that complete education, or absolute education, is not a process of knowing anything else. It is in fact returning from anything else to knowing oneself."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Founder of Maharishi Vedic and Ayur-Veda Universities

FK and more on iTunes iMix "Love’s Journey"

Hey, Groovers!

It's Valentine's Day Eve as I type this and I'm looking forward to tomorrow! Dan disappeared this afternoon after he was last seen making secretive phone calls to our virtual brother in law... Then all he would say after he came home was that I would be "very happy" tomorrow!?.. hmm.. lol.

He has great taste in fantastic, schmaltzy love ballads and yacht rock - designed to get underwear descending... lol! So if you would like to check out our "mix tape" (weren't those the days?) - and you have iTunes try this link.

Love's Journey

Or go to your iTunes music store and click on iMix then key in "love's journey".

Good night, sweet hearts!

SEX & CHOCOLATE!

Hey guys!

Today I'm just letting you know about this sexy little song, "For The Love Of You" (The Chocolate Song) on my new record “Shadow Wine and Truth Lilies”. People always ask me if the song’s about chocolate or SEX? Well the answer is “both!”

Anyway, it's a groovy little mid tempo with a bossa nova feel and even a little sultry jazz alto sax thrown in... it might be handy if you have some seduction planned for this Valentine's Day!?.. Hey, I'd be happy to help! lol.

You can buy it online via iTunes and at just about any online store or from my online store at www.fionakernaghan.com

Have a free listen first on my myspace page - just click on the title "For The Love Of You" - on my music player.

Happy Valentines Day!