Timeline
The following charts the history of Jetpack Kitten. From December 2022 to today.
December 2023
Jingle Bells from Kingston Christmas Market open mic! No I didn’t write this, but wanted to put it up as it’s fun for Christmas!
Songwriting
Continued songwriting - started writing ‘Dance a Little While’.
Performances
Kingston Christmas Market.
Writing Sunday Comes / Family.
November 2023
Songwriting
Continued songwriting, and refining previous songs. Writing a riff for a song, that would later be called Family.
Administration
Started to build recording computer.
Initial studio setup.
Performances
Angel and Crown - Beautiful, I Wish You Well, Yesterday. Ram Jam Open Mic - Yesterday, Yes I Know.
October 2023
Wish You Well performed live at Hounslow open mic.
Songwriting
Jetpack Kitten works on improving structures, chord sequences and lyrics for Yes I Know, Running, Underneath the Sun, Don’t You Know I Love You, Win, Alive, I Really Enjoy, Yesterday, Stars, Thrilled With It, Those Days, I’m Sorry, Beautiful and All I See Is You.
Improving involves testing out the songs at open mic nights to see how well they’re received in a live setting.
Jetpack Kitten works on sheets to give to other musicians, that contain things such as tempo, mood and structure.
Administration
Jetpack Kitten starts to build a computer to record the songs.
Performances
Hounslow Open Mic - Alive, Yesterday, I Wish You Well, Beautiful.
The Fox and Duck Open Mic - Yesterday.
September 2023
Working on Win!
Songwriting
Songwriting continues.
To make the thirty ditties/songs easier to work with, Jetpack Kitten makes five different playlists; Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and sends them out to friends.
Learning
Went to the ‘Turn it Up’ music exhibition in the Science Museum. Reframed Jetpack Kitten’s idea of music. Jetpack Kitten now sees music as more therapeutic than they once did. As they started to see music as a way to heal hurt.
Performances
Grace introduces Phil to the Hounslow Art Centre Open Mic. Grace accompanies Phil on bass and keys for the first time, they play I Wish You Well, Yesterday, Yes I Know. They also play a cover of Fats Waller’s - Ain't Misbehavin'.
The Castle Open Mic - Alive, Win, Beautiful.
Working on Yes I Know.
August 2023
Continued songwriting Alive, Thrilled With It, Don’t You Know I Love You, Fools for Love, Yesterday, Family, War, Win and Yes I Know.
Compiled down a list of songs/ditties in order of how much other people liked them.
At this point Jetpack Kittens had around thirty ditties / short songs.
Philip goes to see Grace Millett perform at Hounslow Art Centre open mic. Thank you Grace!
Working on Right Here, Right Now.
July 2023
Holiday. It’s important to rest, this month is the holiday month. But here is Jetpack Kitten writing Right Here, Right Now from May 2023.
June 2023
Songwriting Thrilled With It.
Continued writing Wish you well, and other songs. Started writing Thrilled With It.
Songwriting Yesterday.
May 2023
Started writing Yesterday and Right here right now. Continued writing I Really Enjoy.
Songwriting I Really Enjoy.
April 2023
Started writing Win and I Really Enjoy.
March 2023
Jetpack Kitten works on the main riff for Alive.
Jetpack Kitten started songwriting Yes I Know, Alive, Beautiful, Why Me / I’m Sorry and Wish You Well.
Jetpack Kitten working on Don’t You Know I Love You.
February 2023
Don’t you know I love you started to take shape.
Thanks to Sami, Hassan, Ed and Joanna for their continued listening efforts!
Writing Those Days.
January 2023
Lots of songwriting.
The chorus of Those Days was written.
The early parts of Underneath the Sun started to be written.
The chorus of I Wish You Well was written.
A big thanks goes to Sami, Hassan, Ed and Joanna for listening to the tracks.
Started writing Running.
December 2022
In December 2022 Jetpack Kitten awoke from the Covid slump. As Jetpack Kitten emerged from a hiatus of not writing music, they thought: "What would I like to do before I’m eighty?".
Jetpack Kitten thought to themselves a simple thought - “It would be nice if people could hear my voice”.
So Jetpack Kitten began writing songs.
Jetpack Kitten started writing Running and All I See is You, this month.