gilly1234567Oct 7, 20203 min readRetrain? Cake Or Death? Bollocks to that!We all have heard the news about Rishi Sunak and other MPs implying that people in the arts should retrain. There are multiple problems...
gilly1234567Sep 21, 20203 min readMental Health And Me: Naan Breads and Covid-19I know we are all tired of hearing about Covid-19, but I am also sick and tired of people saying “It’s just like the flu”. Yes, it is for...
gilly1234567Sep 8, 20203 min readMental Health And Me: Fat Shaming“If you could just loose some weight...” This is a phrase that I deal with on weekly basis, not to mention the constant use of it in the...
gilly1234567Aug 19, 20203 min readMental Health And Me: Loneliness (Part 1) “I have a sense of a big whole in your chest…” My counsellor and I were talking about my personal life, about relationships, and love....
gilly1234567Jul 22, 20203 min readMental Health And Me : BelongingI’ve never felt like I truly belonged anywhere until very recently. In primary school, I was put into another class because I wasn’t like...
gilly1234567Jun 22, 20203 min readMental Health And Me: Toxic MasculinitySometimes, some images are hard to get rid of. For me, one of the images is when I got verbally abused in a park. It was truly a...
gilly1234567Jun 8, 20203 min readMental Health And Me: Acceptance (Part 1)I never thought that having a mental health issue would ever happen to me, but here I am, writing this blog, with a mental health issue!...
gilly1234567Jun 1, 20204 min readMental Health And Me: IntroductionHello all, I’m currently sitting on my sofa, in the afternoon of a very sunny Monday. The weather has been very good recently, which has...
gilly1234567Dec 29, 20184 min readSo, 2018 happened!So we have come to the end of a very long, but deeply fulfilling year for me. Highlights include recording and releasing my debut album,...
gilly1234567Jan 30, 20181 min readRecording day 2So, we had the brass in today. Lots of singing, playing and generally rocking out (See video below!)! Then, we had Liane Carroll come to...
gilly1234567Jan 26, 20181 min readIt's happeningSo, tomorrow - the fun starts!! Scores bound, parts taped, rehearsals done!! We start the fun tomorrow at 6:30am (alarm clock!) to get...
gilly1234567Jan 22, 20181 min readRehearsals!!So, yesterday- we started rehearsals for the album....!!!!! We managed to fit a big band in one of the smallest rooms in Guildhall......
gilly1234567Jan 15, 20181 min readTitle... explain?A lot of people have asked me to explain the title of the album so here you go: The whole concept of the album is about the human nature....
gilly1234567Jan 12, 20182 min readTitle And Featuring...EXCITING (but slightly short) BLOG STARTS HERE! I can now reveal the Title of the album!!! My debut big band album will be called..........
gilly1234567Dec 22, 20171 min readWriting So Far...MY FIRST BLOG UPDATE!!... ... ...So, this is what I have been up to for the past couple of months- writing the album! I'm currently...
