Bonnie's Legends

Two-Headed Calf’s single Wasteland, released on March 22 this year, accompanied me on a wonderful drive around its release time. An ambient synths-rock song perfect for your nightly journaling session. This April, Sarah and Katie, Two-Headed Calf, got together with me to discuss how the song came together, what it means and how it suits the Glasgow-based band’s experience of living in the city.

We as well touched upon the topic of how it is to be in a female-fronted band and how male-dominated the music industry still is to this day, yes, we discussed how all boys think as soon as they have a band that they’re the next Beatles lol (no hate to John, George, Ringo and Paul - we love those boys!).

Two-Headed Calf are coming back with new music (which we also discussed at the end) and exciting gigs early next year - stay tuned for that!

Instagram: @twoheadedcalf__

TikTok: @twoheadedcalf__

There had some line-up changes since our interview, so if you hear a mention of Callum, he’s no longer in the band.

Watch a clip of this interview here.

Bonnie’s writing on cowboys and how the past can haunt us is available on thecrylounge.com (her books + zinepaper) 🎀 Her online diary is howdybonnie.substack.com & 🤠

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About a year ago, we met up and discussed Natalie’s debut novel ‘Daughter Nature’, self-publishing and being part of the indie author landscape in today’s world. Natalie is also a business owner, Multipassionite, and graphic designer. If you want to get to know a few little tricks on how to design a book cover, this episode is right for you.

✨ Natalie can be found on Instagram as @nataliebycraft & her book is linked above✨

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Caroline Kingsbury and I go far back, almost three years ago now we started to follow each other’s careers and I can’t express in words how much I gasped waking up one random morning earlier this year, finding out her banger of a song Kissing Someone Else got a lot of attention overnight. Heaven’s Just A Flight, her debut album from 2020, helped me through my first heartbreak and that way actually became my most streamed album on Spotify ever with 1,145 scrobbles, according to my last.fm statistics, and it sounds about right.

In this episode, we go in depth of the lyrics of the songs off her newly-released EP I Really Don’t Care!, as well as her debut album. We discuss the past year that changed her career after almost giving up and how grief is the touchstone in her songwriting and it always is there, even when writing on love.

Instagram: @kingsburyxx

Watch a clip of this interview here.

Go see her live in NYC, Chicago and early next year she’s supporting Pom Pom Squad → tickets are available here.

“I Really Don’t Care!” is out now: get the vinyl here.

Bonnie’s writing on cowboys and how the past can haunt us is available on thecrylounge.com (her books + zinepaper) 🎀 Her online diary is howdybonnie.substack.com & 🤠

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this podcast episode is hosted, edited and produced by bonnie orbison

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the podcast theme song by e.b. sollis

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In the Summer of 2023, my friend Eliza Kent & I sat down to record this podcast episode on each other’s writing projects at the time. We’ve met around four years ago through Instagram’s wide writing community, read through each other’s novels to sending each other a poem here and there. With parallels in our creative career, we’ve witnessed each other writing & publishing each a fiction novel (Devil & A Half, Eliza Kent & It was her, Bonnie Orbison) and a poetry collection (You Were the Graveyard, Eliza Kent & Pretty Tennessee, Bonnie Orbison).

We discuss how poetry isn’t made for mass consumption and cannot become the fast fashion of writing, every fictional character needs an obsession, how the genre and tone of your novel will influence your moods and how our sexuality already was mirrored in our writing, even though we still were unsure about it.

Main lesson we learned from our friendship is that publishing or sharing your writing with someone is not only helping you to let go of those feelings you wrote on, but also helps you to look objectively on the entire situation.

✨ Eliza can be found on Instagram as @lizalikesbugs & her books are linked above✨

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This March, a week before the first single off his new album “Autotango” was released, I interviewed Ryder The Eagle for this podcast. After seeing him live opening for Oracle Sisters more than a year ago in London, I went up to him immediately, got the vinyl & asked him to be a guest in my podcast. I’ve never heard of him or his music before that night, but his performance and poetic lyricism amazed & fascinated me. What continued was me telling everyone I met and already knew about his album “Megachurch”, his talent on stage and eventually even made my friend join me seeing him live again this past month in Paris.

In this episode, we discuss tracks of his new album “Autotango” such as The Fireman Is Blue, Love’s Not My Jurisdiction and The Rain In My Heart - how this time around Ryder let himself reflect on his inner thoughts and feelings whereas he always focused his music more around love - and of where his inspiration and creativity comes from.

Instagram: @inlovingmemoryofryder

Go see him live in Portugal, Switzerland, New York City and later this year in Australia → tickets are available here.

Bonnie mentions her fiction novel It was her → you can grab a signed copy on thecrylounge.com 🎀 all her other writing can be found on howdybonnie.substack.com 🤠

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this podcast episode is hosted, edited and produced by bonnie orbison

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The evening before her single release “Better Than You Found Me”, Carol Ades and Bonnie met on Zencastr to discuss all about her new musical era, how freeing it feels to experiment with new elements and genres + what’s it like to be an artist on social media.

Bonnie mentions her Notting Hill-esque fiction novel It was her → you can grab a signed copy on thecrylounge.com

Instagram: @carolades

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Last November, Bonnie sat down with Jocelyn Nielson to discuss all things storytelling, Disney and building a consistent writing routine. Including her journey with Disney (including taking college courses & growing up around Disney movies) and how a good system is a must for keeping up with video content like her TikTok series about film reviews and blog articles.

In this episode’s preview (which shall be the previous episode to this one), you can tune in to our side-segment where we trailed off into the land of film. From Runaway Bride to which Top Gun was better written and executed to why we love a mystery narrator. Enjoy & let us know your pick: Top Gun (1986) or Maverick (2022)?

✨ Jocelyn can be found on TikTok as @jocelynnielson & her website is jocelynnielson.com ✨

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Today’s episode, Bonnie talks you through the episodes and work she has prepared for your ears and eyes this coming week and as always the new week in front of us and how much good music is being released lately!

This week at Bonnie’s Legends:

* Tuesday, May 21: Evil Adjacent by Cosmorat (album review + interview)

* Wednesday, May 22: #407 - Jocelyn Nielson (podcast episode)

* Friday, May 24: oh! DEAR EMILY by Drea (music blog)

* Saturday, May 25: O!PNM#22: Carol Ades (podcast episode)

* Sunday, May 26: Oh! Pretty New Music - Week 21 (playlist & blog post → subscribe here to receive it in your inbox)

Pre-save:

Bonnie mentions new music releases at the end of this episode, please pre-save and support the artist:

* Chloe Slater - you can’t put a price on fun (EP)

* Bess Atwell - Light Sleeper (LP)

* Frances Mistry - messages (EP)

* Habibi - Dreamachine (LP)

* The Marías - Submarine (LP)

* Fräulein - Sink or Swim (LP)

⚡️ are you an artist wanting to be interviewed by bonnie or simply wanna add the pre-save link to your upcoming music below? fill out this form & we’ll talk soon!

Legends Club: access to the film club, one monthly personalized playlist + Bonnie’s Legends logo button

Enjoyed listening to this episode? You know what you do ... (make sure to subscribe and share this episode with all of your friends and leave a review, so more people can tune in to my conversations with my legends, xoxo)

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Last November, Bonnie sat down with Jocelyn Nielson to discuss all things storytelling, Disney and building a consistent writing routine. That conversation is coming out next week (April 3rd) so subscribe to get notified.

In this week’s preview, you can tune in to our side-segment where we trailed off into the land of film. From Runaway Brider to which Top Gun was better written and executed to why we love a mystery narrator. Enjoy & let us know your pick: Top Gun (1986) or Maverick (2022)?

✨ Jocelyn can be found on TikTok as @jocelynnielson & her website is jocelynnielson.com ✨

Enjoyed listening to this episode? You know what you do ... (make sure to subscribe and share this episode with all of your friends and leave a review, so more people can tune in to my conversations with my legends, xoxo)

gain access to our Music & Film Club: all proceeds go to running this podcast & funding giveaways as well as in the future the production of short films. join today!

this podcast episode is hosted, edited and produced by bonnie orbison → support her continuous work on her paid Substack or get one of her books ⚡️⚡️⚡️

managed by the cry lounge

the podcast theme song by e.b. sollis

video clips of this episode and anthems-of-the-day on our Instagram @bonnieslegends

🎙 This episode is sponsored by Zencastr. Use my special link to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.

Fionn and Bonnie sat down last Sunday and discussed all things Kilgour, his band located in Glasgow, and their debut album How To Put Your Hat On. The album is out now and vinyls can be ordered on here.

Instagram: @kilgourtheband

Enjoyed listening to this episode? You know what you do ... (make sure to subscribe and share this episode with all of your friends and leave a review, so more people can tune in to my conversations with my legends, xoxo)

this podcast episode is hosted, edited and produced by bonnie orbison → support her continuous work on her paid Substack or get one of her books ⚡️⚡️⚡️

managed by the cry lounge

the podcast theme song by e.b. sollis

video clips of this episode and anthems-of-the-day on our Instagram @bonnieslegends

🎙 This episode is sponsored by Zencastr. Use my special link to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.