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
It’s not often that I get to sit in the passenger seat. I am used to enjoying the opportunity to experience of a slightly different perspective when travelling down familiar roads. What I hadn’t really picked up on previously was the sense of calm from not having to make constant road traffic evaluations and decisions. […]
Routine gets a bad rep in my experience. You frequently hear people talking in negative terms about things being ‘so routine’ or making fun of people who bring exactly the same lunch into work every day. What people often seem to miss are the benefits that having routines can bring. Most of us will have […]
It’s been a busy old year for parties in the Donovan Jones household, New Year/Housewarming, 16th & 40th birthdays plus a wedding and we’re only in July! There were some fairly obvious things to consider when making the guest lists, how many people can you fit in the venue, how many can you afford to […]
Breathe… slowly, just let the air out of your lungs and feel the tension leave your muscles. Now do it again. Concentrate on just the movement of air and the process of breathing. It won’t fix everything that’s wrong or causing you stress (it doesn’t have magical powers), but the shift in focus from a […]
I have ideas (as well as a plan – see yesterday’s post), ideas come relatively easily. The stuff that comes after the spark, after realising that the observation you’ve just made could be useful in some form, turning that into an actual finished product, that’s the hard bit. This isn’t a new realisation for me, I […]
I have a plan. In fact I have 2 plans. One is fairly well rounded and has been tried and tested by others. I’ve modified this plan to suit my situation and now that I have it I can use it as a motivator and a progress indicator towards my goal. The second plan is […]