Depression • Insomnia • Chronic fatigue • Post-vac health collapse • Exercise intolerance • Alcohol intolerance • Food intolerances/hypersensitivities • Chronic abdominal pain • Thyroid disease (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism) • PCOS • Irregular cycles • Insulin resistance • Autoimmunity • Social Anxiety • Eczema • Underweight • Overweight • Central adiposity • Tachycardia • Chronic pain • Migraines • IBS-D • “normal labs” • Recurrent “abnormal” smears • 10+ drugs by age 6
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Depression • Insomnia • Chronic fatigue • Post-vac health collapse • Exercise intolerance • Alcohol intolerance • Food intolerances/hypersensitivities • Chronic abdominal pain • Thyroid disease (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism) • PCOS • Irregular cycles • Insulin resistance • Autoimmunity • Social Anxiety • Eczema • Underweight • Overweight • Central adiposity • Tachycardia • Chronic pain • Migraines • IBS-D • “normal labs” • Recurrent “abnormal” smears • 10+ drugs by age 6 〰️
Punchy piano, different drumming, big basslines, and (mostly dormant) volcanic vocals
And with some deadly serious lyrics
There’s a definite but gentle splash of the unusual
Release Dates
“Mezmer”: 28th December 2026
in memory of Jimmy Sullivan who was taken from this world on this day many years ago
“Princess Leia”: 5th May 2027
in memory of Hope McMullen who was taken from this world on this day many years ago
By the age of 6, I was collecting a raft of medical diagnoses (and misdiagnoses).
At one point I was taking 10+ pharmaceutical drugs at any one time - and apparently that was ok. My school attendance never rose above 37%. Childhood was dominated by illness, outpatient hospital trips and just trying to get through each day.
MadMusicalMe was my escape
Keys started at age 5. Guitar and drums came later, the latter completely unexpectedly. MadMusicalMe became “my home” (‘cause I’ve always been a little bit nuts, thankfully, and despite all of above).
And then the unthinkable happened…
MadMusicalMe went missing around the 2010 mark, all the way through until 2025. But now, I’m back from the woods!
2010–2015 she was completely away from her MadMusicalMe, while continuing to navigate lifelong health struggles. But in 2025, Blondie Burgess unintentionally and unexpectedly returned - explosively - to her old MadMusicalMe, with an almost child-like obsession. This time round though, there’s lived experience there. And oohya bandit, there’s a lot to write about!
With lifelong health issues finally resolved after parting ways with the utter madness of modern medicine, she was left to confront the elephant in the room: 15 years of MadMusicalMe unintentionally lost along the way.
While fiercely protective of the health she has now claimed, she also knows that the best music out there has strong emotional cores. Perhaps that’s why she can’t stick to one genre: the lyrics drive the vibe. She’s grateful to have finally found her emotional centre, without simultaneously being wounded by it.
A classically trained pianist, guitarist, metal drummer and vocalist (ahem… metal screamer), she now blends those influences into something emotionally unfiltered, groove-driven and, hopefully, difficult to sit still to.
Drawing inspiration from the avant-garde genius of J. Sullivan - and taming her own instincts as a metal drummer and screamer - she best describes what she makes today as Avant Bluesy/Jazzy Pop-Rock.
Every composition begins at the piano: a tribute to her soul-music beacon and teacher, whose final creation began exactly this way, just days before he was taken from this world. From there, songs are transformed into layered, genre-bending productions driven by lived experience.
The writing draws heavily from our collectively spiralling MadModernHealth in our MadModernLife.
Despite her primary musical role once being lead guitarist, she now writes, composes, performs and records everything herself - piano, drums, bass, vocals and sometimes misses lead guitar enough to put it back in. The sound combines uplifting, butt-wiggling grooves with darker emotional undertones: an attempt to hold catharsis and celebration in the same place.
It’s meant to bring Hope.
Soulful. Danceable. Raw. And above all, HUMAN - in a world where we’re collectively losing sight of what that means.
Songs to make butts wiggle and hearts sore, ideally.