Who is Donovan Jones?

Donocan is smiling at the camera, wearing a white shirt with red and blue floral shapes on it.

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

Today I’m going long. Long, as in long distance. I’m 2/3rds of the way along my plan and I need to move things up to the next level. I need to run for about 3 hours. It’s slightly daunting;  whilst I’ve some experience of the level of endurance needed from the triathlons I’ve completed, I’m […]

Honesty first –  This is a filler post. I have lots to do and lots I want to get done; I’m in the middle of working on a song, I’ve got to go and get a haircut which is long overdue and I’m going out this evening. None of this will interest you, I appreciate […]

Ok so this isn’t the experiment I was planning to try out today, but never mind. That’s part of the fun of trying new stuff and seeing what works and what falls flat on it’s arse. New paragraph; having been considering if it was possible to dictate a blog post I downloaded a couple of […]

Something’s not quite right. I’m not sure what, but it’s causing a sense of unease. There are a number of minor things that are annoying or frustrating me, one was yesterday’s tech failure which feels like it sucked more than just some of my time up. Another is probably having over-committed myself a little, combined […]

Tech fail rant mode: ON Raaaaaagh! Fire up Rocksmith on Steam to have a bit of a session on the bass. It fails to run – “cannot initialise graphics engine”. Mess around with display drivers, reboot, detach secondary monitors, drop resolution, scour online forums for possible fixes, give up. Fire up Cubase to do some […]

Sometimes it’s a simple matter of practice (ok, so not that all practice is effective but let’s put that aside for now); it could be developing muscle memory and honed reactions like the ones I wished I’d had when playing Donkey Kong or Manic Miner as a child. Back then the way to the next […]