@martin-valins: Cheers Martin. Yes, Nic is a very talented lady

@tylernicholsonmusic: Oh, dont thank me.. Nic does most of the hard work. She transformed my simple guitar instrumental into a lovely song

I still love this song so much, the beautiful chords, your fantastic picking and of course one of the best voices that I have ever heard.

Back again. Why oh Why only 11 likes? So beautiful it makes my heart ache.

Collaborations with buddies

Lyrics and vocals by Nic Evennett
Mixed by Adam Ellis

Stream it here:
https://songwhip.com/jimsanger/cloud-nine?fbclid=IwAR37ZsURw0tqeJtMGN6NUHQ7LjkFHQLPzwTUAb3SviSXcR1zou3zrzlsqBA

We are watching us ghost side,
There are clothes to be washed and hung from the line,
You are blurry and blue-eyed...
Chop the wood into diamonds on cloud nine.

Stir the pot, sing a lullaby,
While the angels around you scream 'Fire!'
For the child to beautify,
For the man to inearth every choir.
For the man to inearth every choir.

Find Nic here:

https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night

Album 'Waiting For The Leaves' out now.
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-the-leaves

Cloud Nine (feat. Nic Evennett)

Music written by James L
Lyrics written by Nic Evennett 
Guitars - James L 
Vocals - Nic Evennett 
All other instruments - Nic Evennett

Raven Boy (With Nic Evennett)

Morning Light

Huge thanks to The Affectionate Punch for taking this track and making it sound amazing - such a pleasure to work with someone so talented.  Please listen to his other great songs @theaffectionatepunch.  As usual, thanks once again to Amanda for her great vocals on this track.  Please listen to her other tracks on @phoebeelena.

Lyrics:

When all around the world
just casts out light
And hearts forever cower in the night
Folds that never show
just draw outlines
and memories
replay a thousand times

So if you stop for a minute 
from the rotten race
And I dream sometimes of the human face
Just a touch, just a feeling 
from the warmest place
someday

And if you feel nothing but the empty space
and I fall like a fruit with the bitter taste
Just a thought, just a beat
not a chance to waste
someday

A heart, a hope
a feeling out of time
Leaves its mark but slowly on my mind
so stand beneath the stare of your streetlights
and leave a little part of me behind

My weakness like the stars drawn to the night
a dreamer disappears before my eyes

do do do

Now this old time soul just can't let go
just a dream of a night at the old disco
just a stop of a heartbeat and a song on the radio

So if you stop for a minute from the rotten race
and I dream sometimes of the human face
just a touch, just a feeling from the warmest place
someday

And if you feel nothing but the empty space
and you fall like a fruit with the bitter taste
just a thought, just a beat
not a chance to waste
today

Thought For the Day (by Amanda & Paul - remixed by The Affectionate Punch)

I've created a video to accompany my latest Cloudlines tune.

https://youtu.be/Te_tOGD3MCU

It would be great if anyone gets a chance to watch it.
Any youtube follows, likes, comments etc would be much appreciated.
(I will of course follow back etc)
Cheers
Richard

Cloudlines No'7 (Towan Surf)

Tell me how to run
when I can't stand up straight
staring out the world
and hoping I don't break

Show me how to love
when all I do is ache
Maybe I dream in the dark
when the light won't stay

Hold me like I see you
when all the truth is told
I got a reason to live
and I won't let go

Though I may be see through
like sorrow's only soul
singing to the sky blues
mirroring the cold

Hold me like I love you
and little hearts that wake
I've got a reason to live
and I call your name
(and I call your name)
(yes I call your name)

Tell me how to run
when all I do is wait
I got a reason to live
and I'm home again..

Reasons for living

Don't Move Remix 2

Words, Music and Image © Nic Evennett 2019

For Fran - in the shape of a hug I never got to give you, but I am now. 
Sleep easy, beauty. xxx

Available on Bandcamp. All proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support. 
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/track/colour-of-weight-song-for-fran
~

I will sit here a while
We'll watch the world guiltlessly
It's wicked and beautiful
It's distance and sympathy

There are feelings they've never held,
The feelings that glued our bones.
They're hungry for everything
And eaten by nothing known.

The colour of weight - 
There's nothing left in between
But skies keep me straight...
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time. 

There's a hole in the cloud
A trail that is left untold
With the curve of our arms
And the shapes we can never hold.

The colour of weight - 
There's nothing left in between
But skies keep me straight...
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time.

Colour of Weight (Song for Fran)

If only I could dance...

Head full of dreams 
and I dwell
in myself
Hours become days become weeks
since I felt anything

In all the right places
by all the right hands
staring at spaces
where we would make plans
to the promised land

Holding for the flicker of light
Holding for the flicker

So put on your music
that old 45
we'll be wrong dancin'
we'll be wrong dancin'
to our own time

With all the right faces
and the right lines
staring stargazers, staring stargazers
to the skyline

Holding for the flicker of light
Holding for the flicker

I'm pirouetting with you
Unhesitating 
unhesitating
I'm pirouetting with you
my body's breaking
my body's breaking
to the wrong song
in our time
I'm pirouetting with you
Longing for the light

Pirouette

Another instrumental I've done to pass the time.

Bad Gateway

When I first heard Nic's beautiful, haunting voice, I knew instantly that I wanted to write a song for her. Luckily, she liked what I created and came up with an amazing vocal for it. Nic has been a dream to work with and I really hope that we can work together again soon. 

You can contact Nic at https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night
Her lyrics can be found  below:

Don't watch my back
Don't say a prayer for me
Good deeds get lost in being right
Your ground attack,
And lack of inquiry - 
See nothing under this gaslight.

You foolish thing
You've got so much to learn
Swallow yourself
And feel the burn

There're none so blind
As those who cannot see
You've only eyes for your design
I could tell you
But have to then kill me 
I'm dripping on your storyline.

Play on Spotify

Feel The Burn (feat. Nic Evennett)

It was a wonderful experience creating this piece with the remarkably talented singer, songwriter and artist Nic Evennett.  Thank you Nic for sharing your abundant talents with me.  You can hear more of Nic's wonderful music here 
https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night

Pleased to report that this track was aired a couple of times on BBC 6 radio.

Flights

Familiar sparks of blues and whites,
With urgency like night time flights,
And wrapped inside a nervous gown -
The downside of this upside down.

They like it when my voice is ice,
And nothing more than sacrifice.
I'm all lit up in this dark town,
And upright when I'm upside down.

Between the lines is always clear:
You're worried for your landing gear
And who'll be there upon the ground
To right you when you're upside down.

Flights (Nic Evennett and Classical Glass)

Ever so thankful to work with the amazing Nic Evennett on this song.  Her talent is special and I strongly recommend you listen to more of her wonderful work
https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night
Pleased to report this piece recently aired on Exile FM in the UK.
For a video version go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxq88LAwrtc&amp=&feature=youtu.be

Whispers

The upside
We're in this together.
My ally,
Faring the weather.
Mistaking
The wicked for the wise,
They're shaking
The thunder from the skies.

I worry, I worry...
Is that the wind in the tree?
The swaying,
Is she waving goodbye to me?
Oh darling,
Cradle my fears,
They're pooling
Under my head.

You'll surely listen, you'll surely listen now,
Whispers tell you everything.

She's waiting
For sorrys on the breeze.
The sun is sore,
The rain is hard to please,
The silvergrass
Is curling around me,
Forgiving,
And soft on my feet.

You'll surely listen, you'll surely listen now.
Whispers tell you everything.

(lyrics by Nic Evennett)

Whispers (Classical Glass and Nic Evennett)

Don't leave me
hanging on my own 
tonight

I see you
swimming with the arms of flight

Swim a little slower in your lane
Tread a little water just the same
Swim a little slower in my lane

My heart's a drag that can't
be towed
I'm breathing
everything I can't let go

Swim a little slower in my lane
Keep a little courage just the same
Swim a little slower in my lane

Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through
Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Swim a little slower in your lane
Tread a little water just the same
Swim a little slower in my lane

Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through
Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh

swimming lessons

Nic has done something wonderful with one of my noodles (Lawrence of Suburbia), adding lyrics and additional strings at the end.
Her latest album is available here:
http://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-the-leaves

And her Soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night

Tricks (Vocals and Lyrics by Nic Evennett)

"A deluded wannabe musician/songwriter who struggles to play in time and sing in tune, but is otherwise reasonably average " - NME 

"Absolute shite. His songs are truly awful" 
- Rolling Stone 

"Do not waste valuable minutes of your life listening to this tuneless tosser" 
- Mojo 

"I don't know who this James L character is trying to kid. He should give up right now. Its a good job he has his film star good looks to fall back on" 
- Annie Mac, Radio 1 

"Don't give up your day job, you talentless prick" 
- My Mum

Independent singer-songwriter from Kent, UK. 
Little video introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMPLBJBK6M

'No Sheet Music' Artist. https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/artists/nic-evennett

"Evennett’s voice is a delicate mystery, warm and lustrous, yet fragile and crystalline – a bewitching blend of Kate Bush and Linda Perhacs, surrounded by dolorous, reverb-drenched piano and woven into broken-hearted balladry." Andee Connors, Pandora 

"Moving, delicate and introspective. As always, Nic Evennett's voice washes over the listener creating an incubated space I didn't want to leave."
Rapt.

Interview: 
https://cocamidemea.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/indieterria-meets-nic-evennett/

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Part of duo Cellar Door. We're over here:
https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

Raven Boy (With Nic Evennett)

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