by Ngaio Anyia | Oct 28, 2019 | Journal
The opening track of my EP: We Fly, Hail Mary, was written about using your voice even when it would be easier to be quiet. Taking chances and sparking conversations. I love the country, bluegrass blues feel of Hail Mary. When I listen to it, it makes me...
by Ngaio Anyia | Sep 18, 2019 | Events, Journal, Music
One day to go until #blackbird is in the world… This song has been inside me since I realised at 5 years old that people weren’t looking at me the same as they were looking at my mum. The first time in Wales I was asked if opened my banana the way...
by Ngaio Anyia | Apr 28, 2016 | Music, Music Reviews
Pray You Catch Me The album opens with Beyoncé looking down with graffiti in the background, presented in fur and corn rows. A vulnerable admission of infidelity begins: ‘I’m praying to catch you whispering, I pray you catch me...
by Ngaio Anyia | Apr 27, 2016 | Culture, Music Reviews, Reviews
I downloaded Tidal apprehensively. I’d seen the hype and knew I’d experience something both visually stimulating and musically mediocre but tried to keep an open mind. The first shot of Beyoncé with cornrows and a fur jacket looking down with graffiti...
by Ngaio Anyia | Nov 4, 2015 | Culture, Music Reviews
Akua Naru was at The Lantern last month – a spoken word artist that has been on my radar for only a year or so after a friend compared one of my songs to hers (massive compliment) but who I thought I’d never actually get to see live. Originally from...
