To end the week (is it really Friday?), we have singer Ayleen O’Hanlon singing “Loverless” with the help of her cat, George, who provides fusses and even tries to help on guitar:
People Magazine explains:
Ayleen O’Hanlon is a singer-songwriter from Victoria, Australia. George is her cat. O’Hanlon says that George “gets a little needy” from time to time, which may explain why he’s “helping” her perform her tune “Loverless” by perching on her guitar, shoving his posterior in her face and batting at her guitar strings.
Then again, George’s presence has helped “Loverless” (which O’Hanlon has decided will be the lead single on her upcoming album) climb to nearly 250,000 views on YouTube. Turns out George – like a lot of managers – is as big a help as he is a hindrance.
You can find more of O’Hanlon’s music on her Facebook, website, orSoundCloud. If you like what you hear, be sure to keep an eye out for “Loverless”‘s official release as a single in November and O’Hanlon’s solo album in early 2015.
h/t: Blue
I need to know why I am getting all the really hot info on good pop music and culture from around the world from the web site of an evolutionary biologist.
Because it is run by a polymath?
And cowboy boots.
Where better? Good pop music is constantly evolving!
Do you think George can win an a-cat-emy aword for his performance?
Award.
Nice one Bob 🙂
That was really sweet and endearing. You can tell the two are very good to each other.
I cannot but help think that my d*g would join in with some long and mournful howls, as he does with singing and trumpet playing. But that would have made the whole thing comical.
To update the People Magazine article quote which is from last year…
“Loverless” is now available online at iTunes, Amazon, Beats Music, Deezer, Google Play, Rdio, Shazam, Spotify and YouTube Music Key
Her debut solo album, “Blend and Spill” due out in “early 2015” seems to have not yet been released.
She needs to take that on the road.
A slightly more combative and shreddy duo…
Everyone’s a critic!
Love it! George must not have his claws or she would have been improvising with some “ow, ow, ow’s” when he was batting her about the head! He’s a sweetie, and the song beautiful.
That’s funny, I had a student a few years ago with that name.
Yes, the face looks very like her.
Alas, I never heard her sing – it was a course about Asia, and singing didn’t come into it.
So now I just need to follow Jerry’s bl… er website to find out where my talented former students are!
Somebody needs to take George on a vacation to Dobrzyń…
Well, it seems she lives about 40 minutes from my own abode, and performing nearby next month. I might peek in and see how she goes.
You might like to catch the Portlandia (Yes – best show on television!) sketch Cat Nap with Kevin the Siamese. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefgnX5GRig