I just discovered Iona Zajac when she performed at Bergain Kantine in Berlin as a supporting act for Anna B. Savage. Both of them incredible women, Anna singing her heart out and Iona enchanting the audience from the first moment she stepped up on to the stage.

I mean, how can a woman just stand there, sing a few lines with almost no body movement or facial expression and still fill the room with tons of magic?

Rubbish Jubilee was my favorite song of hers. I found that you could hear the influence of the melancholic Scottish traditional music in her songs and voice, but also so the roughness of the city of Glasgow.

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Here’s the original song:

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Rubbish Jubilee Lyrics | Songtext

It‘s not what it seems
You‘re blown to smithereens
We loved through small machines
And then I was quite mean, but

I will tell you something
I think we are quite beautiful, so
Can we love in real time that‘s
Taken with each war we fight

It’s not just a dream
I’m not a careless villain queen, I
Blew my things across the scene
Turn the rubbish jubilee, but

I will tell you something, I
think we are quite beautiful, the
Changes got the better of the
Kindness that you have forgotten

I like to pick you up
I’m trying but the silence shuts them
Hear, you know I haven’t called
I didn’t mean to make you run, so

Take me down the beach
The water might be clean today
The first tug of the tide await, I
Don’t need much more breathing space and

I will tell you something
I think we are quite beautiful, so
Can we love in real time that‘s
Taken with each war we fight.

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Learn more about Iona Zajac

There isn’t too much media coverage on Iona Zajac online so far, but I found this „The Skinny“ article very enlightening: „Spotlight On… Iona Zajac„. We learn she is from Scotland, living in Dublin, she has a sister and a music-loving and music-making family. She plays the harp, started her first band at 17, was part of the band Avocet later, and her solo songs were a collection of poems before they became songs.