Cooling Down The Pressure

they sit in the square

cooling down the pressure

with an ice cream

Paul Conneally

May 2019

Shuntaro Netsu of Giant Glove

SHUNTARO NETSU - Sound Scientist of Anglo Japanese band   Giant Glove

Shuntaro Netsu & Paul Conneally are Giant Glove

Fresh Outta Brum: Tayla - Call Me Danger

Fresh out of Brum, Birmingham's TAYLA punches through the current raft of female soundalike songstress's with her debut solo track Call Me Danger. It's a 90's style electronic funk burner with a killer chorus.

Call Me Danger is co-written and produced by London based producer and songwriter Mr. Watt and if doesn't get your body moving then it's probably time to see the doctor. Think Nu Shooz with a modern urban twist and you're somewhere near the territory that Call Me Danger occupies.

Call Me Danger comes with a cool video that compliments the confidence of the track. I'd love to see a version shot wholly in Birmingham, the heart of the Midlands where Tayla herself hails from, a fine example of the growing breadth and talent emerging across the arts from Brum, the heart of England.

a butterfly beats
in time with the city
tall buildings and food

Little Onion
September 2016

Our Picnic Hamper

our picnic hamper
filling with cherry blossom
sweet pickled fish

Little Onion

from the Sake no Hana suite of 20 Cherry Blossom Haiku by Little Onion

Sake no Hana: http://sakenohana.com/london/

Slowly Unveiling

slowly unveiling

her cherry blossom tattoo

March becomes April

Little Onion

Little Onion is resident haiku master at Sake no Hana the modern Japanese restaurant in Mayfair, London. 

The Floodgates Open

the floodgates open

our first kiss our children

sakura blossom

Little Onion

From 'Cherry Blossom Haiku' a suite of 20 blossom haiku by Little Onion resident haiku master at Sake no Hana the modern authentic Japanese restaurant in the heart of London's Mayfair.

One Hundred Men

We take my mum and dad, both in their eighties, to Liverpool for a couple of days. My mum has wanted to see Anthony Gormley's 'Another Place' for a long time. A cold, windy and wild day at Crosby beach. Together we watch the tide go out, slowly revealing one hundred metal statues, casts of Gormley himself, naked, looking out to sea.

blowing its horn
the ferry heads west
mating gulls

Little Onion

Little Onion is the haiku name of Paul Conneally






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Sweetheart

sweetheart
don't wander
off the path

From Walk The Line - Pavement Publication by Maurice Maguire and Little Onion (Paul Conneally).

Maguire and Conneally transfer haiku like poems created by members of the Kings Norton community in Birmingham during a walk with them through the Three Estates following the path of an underground canal tunnel, on to the pavements and surfaces in the area. They attempt to register the estate with the British Library as a book but are turned down. They contend that it is a book and can be read like any other published book.

Cherry Blossom Moon

stuck to the bottom

of his patent leather shoe

cherry blossom moon

Little Onion

From Cherry Blossom Haiku a suite of 20 blossom haiku commissioned by 

Sake no Hana the modern, authentic Japanese restaurant in the heart of London

Blind Hope - 'on the back of an envelope'

'on the back of an envelope'
Work in progress 'Blind Hope' with Tom Green
Paul Conneally
Loughborough
2016