ANNEMARIE QUINN

Arrived back in Malawi mid-September from the UK and hit the ground running!

The end of September saw Lake Of Stars Discovery come to life on the northern shore line of Lake Malawi. I packed up the car, picked up some lovely poets also performing from Blantyre, and jour...

If someone asked me to describe the music here in Malawi, even after nearly three years living here, it’s hard to know where to begin. They live in music in completely different way. Malawians grow up with music in their everyday lives - I’ve seen whole choirs on the b...

It’s already March 2018… What? How?

Happy belated New Year!

And another year in Malawi begins, it’s really starting to feel like home (and in so many other ways still feels really new!) I went to Cape Town for Christmas and New Year, where my family flew from the UK and...

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since we moved to Malawi. This time last year we had no idea what we were doing, didn’t know where anything was and thought what the hell have we done, but what a difference a year makes. I say this at the start of every blog...

IT'S FINISHED! 

Since arriving back in Malawi in January, I've gotten my head down and built up an entire studio. It started with a room in our flat, which is a really nice space to begin with, but then how to deaden the sound? How to capture a real clean take with no '...

Hello and Happy New Year! 2017, wow that's come round quick. 

Had a great time over the holidays, we decided to head back to the UK to visit everyone. 4 months is the longest either of us have been away so we were ready to see everyone. But rather than just jumping stra...

After three months of arriving in Malawi, I finally feel like we are starting to settle and things are feeling more like home, hurray! When we decided to move, neither of us knew what to expect; it’s hard enough moving house in the UK and trying to get used to the new...

Hello! It’s the first cooler day we’ve had here since we arrived 6 weeks ago. 6 WEEKS! I don’t even know where the time has gone. On one hand it feels like we’ve been here for ages, and on the other everything still feels so new. But yes, after living in 33 degrees eve...

So the last few months have been a bit mad!

Andy and I were flooded in December so spent a lot of time staying with friends and family; we had fun but it was tough. And we’d been planning on moving from The Lake District further south, but one night after the floods we...

Hello and Happy New Year! 3 Months out but that's alright, it's my first blog of 2016!

I think this is a good time to write something; we're past that weird first part of a new year not really knowing what day it is, and constantly living in the dark and wet, trying to...