#SongOfTheWeek: Mononoke - Alice

(Image taken from Mononokeofficial Facebook page)

Mononoke is a London based singer who is so new and up-coming that I can find barely any information on her. All I know is I found her through a mix on SoundCloud and her voice is unbelievably soothing, and all three of her songs currently uploaded are beautiful.

If you love London Grammar then this is for you, it has a similar chilled out, slightly electronic sound that soothes and feels like it's massaging your brain (a strange thing to think about). Alice is a slow, stripped back melodic track that is slightly melancholy but has something uplifting about it. The vocals carry everything and they are well and truly on point. As soon as I heard this I started internet stalking her, I've now found her official Facebook page, which will hopefully keep me up to date with any releases. I also found her YouTube, it's only got the three music videos on there at the moment but I'm eagerly waiting for some more. 

So if you fancy a chill out session, grab a cup of tea, your best noise cancelling headphones and whack on a bit of Mononoke.

Goodbye Cheshire Cat, Hello LilacGhosts! ✌

I've been debating for a very, very long time about my blog and YouTube name. Yes Cheshire Cat made perfect sense, I'm from Cheshire and my name is Cat (well sort of) but because it is also the name of a very well known literary character, it just didn't feel unique and special to me. I will admit I was also a little worried about copyright. So here I sat, on my very comfy sofa jotting down hundreds of potential blog names, scribbling them out and getting extremely, and unnecessarily, frustrated. Finally after much deliberation I settled on LilacGhosts, something delicate but not overly girly. I had a quick google to make sure there wasn't anyone using the name for commercial use (there isn't as far as I can see) then went ahead to changing my many social media pages, including my YouTube name. 

I'm not going to pretend like the name has any hidden personal meaning, it's not the name of a dead dog or part of my favourite poem. I like how LilacGhosts just rolls off the tongue, it feels wispy, unique and beautiful. Not to mention it's short and sweet and hopefully memorable! 

I suppose it is part of the whole mind-set of 'New Year, New Me', not that I intended it to be. But it just feels like my blog is moving forward and it's name just wasn't helping it to do so. I hope you all warm to the new name, I know it's going to take time for me to really get used to it!