Change

Sometimes change is fun. Sometimes it can be scary.

Either way, nothing stays the same and change is someting is we all have to face.

Being a bit of a control freak, change is not always something that is easy for me. I like the safety of my routine and the comfort that comes with that routine: like sliding into a favourite pair of comfortable jeans, but life has been a whirlwind of change and it’s time to share some of these with yous all.

After over 3 and a half years as Pixie the Pirate at Beaten Path Radio, I have hung up my Pirate hat and gone legit. I’ll be forever greatful for everything I learned there, and for the oppurtunity to learn to do something that I truly love with all my heart — namely, sharing music with yous all.

The good news is that I haven’t given up broadcasting — far from it.

I’ve just gone through a bit of an evolution.

So, Welcome to Pixie 2.0 — same old giggles, brand new home and a shiny new show. Well. A trio of shows, truth be told. I have my own prime time Mixtape style show, every Friday Night, 22:00 til Midnight, I co-host the flagship chart show every Sunday from 17:00 til 20:00, and I have an hour of throwbacks every Monday at 10:00.

Sometimes change is fun. Sometimes it can be super scary. And sometimes, if you’re really lucky, you’ll think you’re falling, only to find that you’ve learnt how to fly.

Pixie xo

1st Sep 2022 2

Pieces of Me – Day 14

Happy Valentine’s Day, my Loves – we’ve made it to the end of this particular mixtape, and this final track is a treasure from my teens.

I was a lovesick pixie, in a long distance relationship with a boy living on the other side of the city, when this one came out. I had it on cassette and played it over and over and over again. It is soaked in nostalgia for me and takes me back to the echo of that wistful yearning and the first fush of falling in love.

14th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 13

I’ll be completely honest here – I have no idea why I am obsessed with this song, I just am. I have so many covers of it, but the original still remains my favourite. It’s that bluesy, dreamy feel to the lyrics and that sense of falling helplessly into something that you know you’re going to regret, but not caring, because sometimes, just sometimes, the things that hurt are the things that you need.

13th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 12

This is another one that was played a lot whilst I was growing up – My Sister and I used to do a lot of singing together, and this was one that we could rock a harmony on. And we did. All over the neighbourhood. And since we would usualy get sweets for this, I guess you could call it our first paying gig!

12th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 11

Another one that always gets me right in the feels …

The lyrics are all about unconditionally being there for someone, be it a lover or a friend. It’s a beautiful sentiment and a beautiful song, and thats why it’s on this list!

11th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 10

Well, well, well. I made it all the way to Day 10 before pulling a track from the ultra moody Pixie wants to Play mixtape!

To me this is a song about chaos and control. It’s raw, with an industrial edge and a barely concealed bite of menace, and it’s a little more subtle then listening to Nine Inch Nails when I want to scratch that squirmy musical itch.

Best enjoyed in the dark! xo

10th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 9

I can’t really have a mix tape of music that hits me in the feels, without having at least one reference to Taylor Swift. Love her or loathe her, the woman has an impressive array of music at her fingertips, and with all the lyrical lushness at my fingertips, the one that haunts me is this

In a track full of lyrical magic (“You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath”, “you call me up to break me like a promise. So causally cruel in the name of being honest”, “Time won’t fly, its like I’m paralysed by it. I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still tying to find it” “They say ‘all’s well that ends well’ but I’m in a new hell everytime you double-cross my mind”), this is the one that hit me like an arrow.

9th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 8

We’re just over the halfway part, so it’s all downhill from here, my freaky darlings!

Now bear with me, this may venture into gushing fangirl territory, because this entry on my mixtape is from one of my major musical idols – John Paul White.

The third song on the album Beulah, this was the track that made me fall head first in musical love with this artist.

I obviously have a thing for dark and depressing songs – broken dreams, dark fairytales, unhappy endings – with this song chronicling the bitter break up of a relationship, the chorus claiming “I never really loved you anyway”, and Mr White expresses dark and depressing so beautifully … le sigh!!

It’s also one of those magical, melancholy songs that’s a million times better live. However, I have the tendency to get a little hormonal and tear up every time I hear him do this one live too!

Enjoy this jewel of a song, my loves!

8th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 7

Music is one of the ways that I escape myself. When lost in a song, I can forget everything – my stress and anxieties, the niggling worry, the voice that drips poison into my ear. All these things are drowned out when I find the perfect song. This is one of those, which is fitting, because it’s a song about escape. But it has a dreamy, sweet and hopeful element to it which I find just beautifully haunting and soothing.

So sit back, press play and be swept away with this one.

7th Feb 2022 0

Pieces of Me – Day 6

Day 6 brings us to Lacuna Coil’s Spellbound.

With their blend of metal growls, heavy beats and beautiful melodic lines, this is a band that I fangirl over on a regular basis – trying to pick my favourite Lacuna Coil Song is an almost impossible task, but the lyrics of Spellbound imprinted on me the first time I heard it and have been with me ever since. To me, this is a song about obsession and addiction and the internal struggle to overcome these.

It also holds a special place on my mixtape because it was the first song I ever played on air and the second track on my first show with Beaten Path.

Hope you enjoy it too!

6th Feb 2022 0