Who is Donovan Jones?
Singer, writer, producer, quiet commentator, cerebral activist- with the emphasis most definitely falling on the cerebral side of things.
I’ve spent many years working my way along the journey of personal creativity.
This site is a manifestation of some of those discoveries and outputs for anyone to explore.
Listen to music, watch performances or sample some of my written creative output.
There is an open invitation for you to critique, agree or disagree, or even disapprove – the choice is yours. Feedback and comments are most definitely welcome.
Latest music
Here’s the first of the clips from last month’s Album Preview Party – Looking for a Way Out
What do you get when you are randomly teamed up with a couple of filmmakers and given 2 weeks to make a music video? No it’s not the set up to a joke.
This June I entered the 2024 2 Weeks 2 Make It competition and got put together with Sasquatch Pictures (aka Dan Hole and Lauren Holberry).
What appears below is the result of our collective efforts.
Special thanks to the team of fabulous extras who gave up their time to appear in front of the camera, especially Dan and Callum who spent 2 hot days in Tuxes!
Behind the scenes
When you have 7 days to storyboard, shoot and edit a music video for a charity event, this clip for “Party for One” is what you get. How many of you are still doing “Pilates on Zoom”?
Latest writing
A bit of Housekeeping first. Well no, actually first is a bit of planning to get the priorities in the right order. Housekeeping is one of the priorities but definitely in quadrant 2 of the Eisenhower Matrix (see the previous post on “getting ahead of your own curve”). So I’m going to plan the housekeeping. […]
I want to know what’s going on. I want to see what’s out there. I want to make best use of the next 20 minutes of my lunch break. There is a big world out there and while everything is now connected and in ‘easy reach’ you have to know not only what you want […]
Back once again like a renegade master. D4 damage with the ill behaviour! Hey pop pickers, missed me? No of course not but then again, ask me if I’m bothered… Deafening silence as expected. Not to worry, I write to satisfy my desires to emote, not for external validation. (No seriously, this really is the […]
I relented this weekend and re-installed the Facebook app on my phone. I did it because I wanted to upload more than one photo to a post and it’s not possible to do that in the mobile browser version. But having done so I’ve already identified the ease of access means the temptation to ‘keep […]
I’m busy working on this post. It has a objective and an identified end point. I do this everyday. It started as an exercise in discipline and an opportunity for creative output. It has worked in lots of ways, a learning curve, sometimes a chore or burden but often a mental release, and invariably enjoyable […]
Yesterday didn’t turn out how I expected. The planned long run was cut short as I realised the niggles I was experiencing in my hip were not going to fade, and were only likely to worsen if I continued on for the intended duration. For a while, as I was debating the decision to abandon […]