{"id":23830,"date":"2014-11-17T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2014-11-17T21:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:25:25","slug":"cardiff-character-maddie-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/11\/17\/cardiff-character-maddie-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Character: Maddie Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maddie Jones has red hair in Bonham-Carteresque ringlets, a biker jacket, and a voice that hovers on the verge of laughter. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether other adults still get the feeling before Christmas when you can\u2019t sleep,\u201d she says, sipping on a cider. \u201cI\u2019ve been getting that all week\u2026 a kind of nervous tension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the evening before the launch of her first full-length album, <em>Vita Brevis<\/em>. She has just collected a fence post from her parents\u2019 house, which she plans to wind with fairy lights and plant on Womanby Street &#8211; signposting The Moon Club where she will be performing for family, friends and guests.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23834\" alt=\"AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23834\" alt=\"AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/AltCardiff_CardiffCha_7_Maddie_Big-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Maddie Jones performs songs from Vita Brevis at The Moon Club<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maddie is 26, and is from Ystrad Mynach &#8211; a small, impossible-to-pronounce Welsh village. She is four years out of a Music degree at Nottingham and makes a living as a full-time musician. With an artist \u201cfuck the working world\u201d mother and a father who taught her guitar, her first singing inspirations came from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday. She then passed through a \u2018heavy rock\u2019 phase, was part of an all-female punk band called Pure Silk at secondary school, and ran open mic nights during her undergraduate years in Nottingham. Post-graduation she decided she wanted to \u2018do\u2019 music, made a business plan of her life with her Dad, and started \u201ctentatively writing and recording songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The making of <i>Vita Brevis<\/i>, (a phrase extracted from a longer quote by Hippocrates, which means \u201cLife is Short\u201d) began in 2013, when Maddie won a competition that provided her with recording time, later extended with Arts Council Funding. The art-deco cover, in which she shouts &#8211; or perhaps laughs &#8211; through a gramophone with a firework exploding behind her, she designed herself. \u201cI thought the photo really encapsulated the album tone\u2026 Life is short: shout through a horn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/MaddieMain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23870 alignright\" alt=\"MaddieMain\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/MaddieMain-225x312.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"312\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23870 alignright\" alt=\"MaddieMain\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/MaddieMain-225x312.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maddie finds songwriting very therapeutic: \u201cA lot of the emotions [in the songs] are very intense, not just the sort of thing you talk about to people; but it\u2019s very liberating to sing them &#8211; especially to strangers.\u201d She loves hearing that her music has resonated with a person: and once got a free taxi ride from a driver who played her EP on a loop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m more happy with [<i>Vita Brevis<\/i>] than I\u2019ve ever been with anything,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve got to the point where I\u2019ve stopped listening to it so critically, and started to enjoy it as an album.\u201d Following the launch, she wants to spend the next year touring and playing festivals.<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t enough strong female singer-songwriters out there, she thinks. Artists like Rhianna and Katy Perry are applauded for their appearance and their dress but not for their instrumentalism or their ability to write lyrics. Her advice for aspiring \u201clady singers\u201d breaking into the industry? \u201cYou are going to be treated differently, inevitably. Make it work to your advantage. Don\u2019t let people walk over you because you\u2019re female. Just get them to say \u2018Oh, that\u2019s unusual\u2026 a girl with a guitar.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=se9d2YPZTfA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maddie Jones on her album launch, Hippocrates, and \u2018lady singers\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":23834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[835,2698,3872,2702],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-album","tag-album-launch","tag-maddie-jones","tag-the-moon-club"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff Character: Maddie Jones - 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