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
Yesterday I started something I couldn’t finish, it probably won’t be the last time that happens. More and more frequently I find the things I want to say take a lot longer to write and edit than I am making time for. I am however, resolute in my “post everyday rule” so sometimes there may […]
I’m staying away tonight. Someone planned a stag do in the middle of the Lake District in the middle of the tourist season. Finding affordable accommodation could have been tricky, and certainly would have been a few years ago, trawling the online directories for Bed and Breakfasts. But it was fine in the end […]
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere. I’m all alone, more or less. At least that’s how many people feel a lot of the time (not just Red Dwarf fans). A voice in your head is analysing every last thing, continually in dialogue with itself. Add in the quest for meaning, whether at a personal […]
Why Everyone Needs a Backup Plan Everyone should have a plan, right? But… What if Plan A doesn’t work? What if someone doesn’t agree with Plan A? What if you can’t afford Plan A? It doesn’t matter what the ‘if’ is, you will never think of all the possible ‘if’s.What matters is that you have […]
A friend of mine posted a link to a BBC article on how to improve your enjoyment of music. Intrigued, I took the (click)bait and read on. To be honest it was a bit hit and miss with a third of the article looking at spatial audio and not so much “tips” as explanations of […]
Every day I am grateful that Google exists. I only ‘googled’ five times today but each one was a one search wonder. First off was a check on the weather (happily no sign of rain) which helped firm up the plans for the day. Second and third were some nature-related searches for the wing speeds […]