Jessica Bailey
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I am a freelance writer, playwright, director and lecturer from London. Self professed nerd, art lover and Neurodivergent, vegan since '16, piano player since 7 - let's see...oh and music, lots and lots of music...
Intsa: @bailsitall
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5 Best Disco or Disco Inspired Tracks of 2020
Ah yes, time for the semi-annual dragging of the '5 best...' trope out of my closet, dust blown of its surfaces. Only this time it its to be reimagined, attached to my ceiling to slowly rotate a constant flurry of light and disco fever over my impassioned, cold face as I sit in my dressing gown eating cereal at 10:10 pm.
By Jessica Bailey5 years ago in Beat
Love More Challenge: Process, Aesthetic and Decompression
Oh. You don't know the three P's? Where have you been living? Well never mind, and gather round children, so that you may learn..no but seriously I know you all might actually not know what it is, and fair play, so behold:
By Jessica Bailey6 years ago in Motivation
Women Who Inspire: Nina Simone Is Not Kidding Around
Ah, Eunice. Though not as widely hand-wrung as Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf, Nina Simone (born Eunice Waymon) is just as much a genius and just as much tragic. Her end isn't quite so widely sensationalised as those of her fellow female heroines but hers is somehow more personal to me, despite her and I being the most opposite two women could possibly be in our respective situations.
By Jessica Bailey6 years ago in Beat
Unpopular Opinion: Bob Dylan Can't Sing
Okay yes. I hold my hands up. I'm one of these feminists. One of these feminists that doesn't like Bob Dylan. We're a small faction, true, but we are vocal. And way more melodic than Mr Bed Head himself. We had a meeting in a pub off Kings Cross and I was selected to make the case in their behalf. So here goes.
By Jessica Bailey6 years ago in Beat
Wanna Throw a Ball, Slugger?
Arya Stark. Right? I mean, I've not watched a paltry second of Game of Thrones, ever (totally true, on my life) and even I am aware of the two milestones the 22-year-old scrappy thing has reached in her young life. She's had a shag and killed a big baddie. Basically James Bond, am I right? As a consumer of Westernised film and TV this is how it goes: ol' James Bond shoots and leaves like its his job (which it kind of is, now you think about it), ooh about a million times by now so what's the big furore? Why should it be so different, so 'wrong' for a 22 year old female assassin to get hers? The day after, news headlines shouted of 'Fans Cringe at Game Of Thrones Sex Scene' and a million GoT Twitter fan accounts had conniptions that a girl should take control and own her sexuality in this way. It was all anyone talked about for roughly 48 hours, so I had to look see.
By Jessica Bailey6 years ago in Geeks
Flip, Reverse It: The Power of the Remix
As the eponymous and everlasting Missy Misdeameanor Elliott once said: "Put my thang down, flip it and reverse it," and then something that always sounded like: "It's your-thingy-fema-thang-wip, it's your-thingy-fema-thang-wep," and we all went, "Yeah, ok," because it was very cool, and we sang it in a kind of I-Don't-Know-What-I'm-Saying-But-This-Is-On-At-The-Club-So-Lets-Get-It kind of way.
By Jessica Bailey6 years ago in Beat
How Marmite Will Make Britain Implode—Brexit/Breakfast, A Dichotomy.
Opening Argument: politics is show business for ugly people. In Support: President Trump (Apprentice US), Sir Alan Sugar, businessman, and current member of House of Lords (Apprentice UK). Further Support—these so called politicians are living the superstar life without a) gaining plus 150 pounds for a role, b) an ‘ugly’ prosthetic or c) any wig of any sort—they have it all, all naturally, and my god, they flaunt it. These lawmakers are the living the good life, like a rapper taking a private jet to Coachella.
By Jessica Bailey7 years ago in The Swamp
Five Best Dancing Music Videos of 2018
So—who'd have thunk it? Despite the best efforts of the streaming internet, the humble dance music video made a comeback. In AD 2018. But is it that much of a surprise? Eighteen years into the new millennium and we've yet to produce something that doesn't hark back to the past somehow—be it fashion, music, dance, or opinions. The past, we dig it truly so is it really a surprise that we returned to the synchronised visual movements (new pet term for dance video, FYI) of the days past?
By Jessica Bailey7 years ago in Beat
Thoughts Intrusive and Critical: Part 1
Me and my brain, right—are like two colleagues at work who smile tightly at the other when they pass on the fourth floor corridor to the stationary cupboard. My brain is the kind of co-worker that thinks nothing of jumping the line to the photocopier or snagging the last muffin in the cafeteria. You stare at them, full to the brim with silent outrage—and if they bother to look in your direction, they shrug as if to say "What? It's what I do."
By Jessica Bailey7 years ago in Psyche
Twenty Years Young: 'Whatever and Ever, Amen'
The year is 1998. I have just come back from New York visiting my brother, and am so incredibly proud of scoring an autograph from two of the Spice Girls and am spending sunny and hazy days listening to cassettes of "Spice Up Your Life", shouting “GIRL POWER” at every boy who passed me and kicking them with my Doc Martins on the football pitch. But incidentally, this was also the very year I started to take piano lessons.
By Jessica Bailey7 years ago in Beat
Ultimate Vegan/Gluten Free Pancakes
Hello, all! I'm back after a few months away, experimenting and dreaming up ways to eat the food I used to love before veganism in a plant-based, healthy way. I used to love pancakes but really struggled with the idea of holding it all together—without eggs, what do we got? The alternatives seemed a little frightening and overwhelming to just use freely and my cooking is all about adapting, not replacing. And so after some false starts and nearly misses, I got there, without fuss and without a compromise on taste. It just so happened I was having a coeliac sufferer over for some supper, and I love a challenge, me. So without further ado...
By Jessica Bailey7 years ago in Feast
