music that’s close to home

I witnessed something pretty awesome tonight. The wonderful Ellie Magill played a show at the Mars Hill Cafe to launch her EP. I went along knowing that it would be very awesome (Ellie is quite an awesome singer), but somehow, my expectations were smashed out of the water by this musician who sang incredibly wonderful songs, and performed as though she’d been doing it for years and years. 

From the moment she started playing, you couldn’t help but notice how filled with joy she was that there was about 150 people crammed into the upstairs part of Mars Hill just to see her. There physically wasn’t any more room for anyone else. It was so cool to see that many people turn up to hear her music.

All this was to launch her EP - 6 songs that she wrote and sang; 6 songs that are very brilliant. And it was packaged so wonderfully too. She put so much effort into printing and packaging her EP… and I’m guessing that it will be fairly limited given that they are all handmade. So that makes having a copy even more awesome :)

I can’t wait to see what’s next… when she’s gonna play more music, when she’s gonna write and record more music.