The Ting Tings are an English Indie pop duo from Salford formed in 2007. The band consists of Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals). White was a barmaid at the Mill while De Martino produced tracks for various artists therein. The […]
Atarashii Gakko!
Atarashii Gakkou no Leaders (internationally known as Atarashii Gakkou) are a dance and vocal performance group formed in 2015. Impactful, eclectic, and charmingly chaotic, ATARASHII GAKKO! are a group that’s difficult to categorise. The four-member group is composed of Miayu, Rin, Suzuka, and Kanon. Donning their iconic school uniforms, ATARASHll GAKKO!’s name aptly translates to […]
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is an African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns. Originating in early oral and musical African-American traditions, it was composed by Wallis Wilis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865. He […]
Guesch Patti
Guesch Patti, born Patricia Porrasse, is a French singer. She was born in Paris, France. She chose her artist name, Guesch, from the nickname she had as a child. Patti is a nickname for Patricia. Guesch Patti first started her career at dancing at age nine when she performed in a ballet at the Opera […]
Perfume
Perfume are a Japanese pop girl group from Hiroshima, Japan, consisting of Ayano Omoto (“Nocchi”), Yuka Kashino (“KASHIYUKA”) and Ayaka Nishiwaki (“a-chan”). The group has been signed with Amuse Inc since 2003 and with Univeral Music Group since 2012. The group was formed in early 2000 inside the young talent academy Actor’s School Hiroshima and […]
Caterina Barbieri
Barbieri began her classical guitar studies at the age of 11 and in 2012 she graduated from the GB Martini Conservatory in Bologna. After a period of Erasmus studies at the College of Music and Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, she graduated in 2014 in electro-acoustic composition. In 2015 she graduated in Modern Literature at the University […]
Go!
The verb Go comes from the Old English gan “to advance, walk; depart, go away; happen, take place; conquer; observe, practice, exercise,” from West Germanic *gaian (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian gan, Middle Dutch gaen, Dutch gaan, Old High German gan, German gehen), from PIE root *ghē- “to release, let go; be released” […]
Start!
Start comes from the the Middle English sterten; akin to Middle High German sterzen to stand up stiffly, move quickly. This meaning evolved by c. 1300 to “awaken suddenly, flinch or recoil in alarm,” and by 1660s to “cause to begin acting or operating.” Meaning “begin to move, leave, depart” (without implication of suddenness) is […]
Stop!
After the success of my recent series on songs related to English contractions, I though I would see if the same might be true of Exclamations. So today we are going to begin with “Stop”. It first appeared in Old English as “stoppian,” which has, so far, only been found in the written record in […]
John Donne
John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary who was born in London in 1571 or 1572, into a recusant Roman Catholic family when practice of that religion was illegal in England. Donne was the third of six children. His father, also named John Donne, married to one Elizabeth Heywood, was of Welsh […]