Dream Big R Kid

Hello, I’m really ill at the moment and can’t sing or do very much at all, some awful bug. But I wanted to send a list of my ultimate music dreams, because I thought it would cheer me up and I’d like to look back at this newsletter in a few years and hopefully tick off a few of them. Maybe It’ll prompt you to make your own list. I find writing things like this tricky as I’m from Salford, which is very ‘Who dya think you arrrrr?’ Well…I’ll tell you who I think I am.. LADY MUCK!! Haha x x Anyway here we go….

DARE TO DREAM BIG

1. I want to release two albums a year, or at least one a year. No more big gaps. Explore all the sides, all the styles I’ve wanted to do. For eg..I’ve always wanted to make a Chet Baker influenced jazz record of intimate beautiful songs with sparse production, but the instrumentation used is interesting, unexpected, with odd, off kilter lyrics delivered in a soft caress (Chet is one of vocal heroes) And do this with or without label or support of that nature, I have a studio now I can put things out anytime, so all my more unusual ideas can have their own little life too, without the pressure of it having to ‘do well’

2. I want to find a team that really get me and support me, believe in me and dream big, even in this current musical climate, because of it not in spite of.

3. I’d like to write for other artists, young female artists specifically that are trying to find their voice. I understand how it feels to be in a room of middle aged men writing for you, I understand how crushing it is to feel frozen, to have an empty notebook but a head full of ideas. And I also understand how it feels to have ‘no ideas’ and to be searching for them. I want to be in those rooms, learning how to speak their language, not the other way round.

4. I’d like to learn how to move, work with a choreographer, yep I have injuries but so what, I want to find a way to use it to my advantage. (I loveeeee to dance, you should see me in my living room when I’ve had a few;)

1. I’d like to tour tour tour, get my name out there, get the exposure, support great artists and learn from them, play Europe, play America! (I’ve never toured outside the UK)

2. Get more involved in the visual world, working with interesting animators and filmmakers, getting more of my visual ideas in motion. I’m always thinking in ‘movie mode’ in camera angles, stills, always creating scenes in my head. I’d like to get behind the camera. Maybe even write something..

7. I’d love to find a way to incorporate my drawings with my music videos, perhaps work with an animator. Make some weird and wonderful art, merch, one off designs, paint on my outfits, help design outfits even. I loveeeee clothes, fashion, drawing, all of it.

8. I want to become a great guitar player, I’m ok, but wow, the more you learn the more you realise how much there is to learn, if that makes sense. And keep the faith with the flute (I’ve started flute lessons, it’s fuckin solid)

9. Keep the faith, the passion and the magic alive. i think I’ve done well so far, and I don’t want to become dissillusioned as I get older, by the inevitable fall backs and flops and disappointments. Dare to believe it can succeed. Keep that compass pointing north. Remember why it is you are doing this in first place. (Attention? Validation?..Free clothes?!) NO.

   Because it sets your soul on fire.

I know I have loads more, but this is pretty good for now I reckon. I’ve purposely left off outward success, you know, sold out tours, headlining festivals, awards, anything like that. Of course I want those things too but I don’t want to put it on my list, because it gives it too much power, and trust me I’ve shed enough tears over all that. And tbh you only have so much control over those things. No, my list is for dreaming, scheming, creativity and love. And If I get to do half of them I’ll be buzzing. Very very buzzing.

Anyway, hope this was at least mildly interesting.

Love Ren xxx