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
Away on business today so in place of the usual thoughtful commentary is some observational inspired poetry: More like an inter-national expressAll human life is here too;Sleepers, commuters, tourists, Young, old, fragrant, odourous, In this (mostly) high-speed sweatbox, Thousands of tiny private universesUnder a city of the only world there is. On, off, off and […]
It’s broken. What is ‘it’? Well not to be all doom and gloomy about it but pretty much everything. Democracy, government, the news media, the nhs, the economy, the list goes on. Corrupt politicians look after their own interests and those of their sponsors, honourable ones are simply not in a position to be effective […]
We need to do something with our driveway. Yes I know I’ve completely captivated you with just that one sentence of domestic dilemmery, but bear with me. My good lady and I are not without some diy skills and are certainly not afraid to take up the challenge of something new either. It’s not beyond […]
How do we reconcile compromises in our principles for the sake of an easy life or maintaining relationships? Where should we draw the line and where should we rub bits out and redraw them to accommodate others? How many small incremental allowances does it take before the gap between who we intend to be and […]
It’s hard, always feeling like you’re chasing around trying to get everything on your list done. Imagine how good it would feel to know you not only had everything in hand, but that you were actually a little bit ahead. There is a positivity to being on top of the things you need to do, […]
I’ve been an inadvertent Apple user for some 6 years now. When I joined my current employer the phone they gave me was an iPhone 4. Fast approaching 40, I’d already established it was taking me longer to adapt to new user interfaces; the nuances of my previous HTC one Android phone hadn’t ever bedded […]