Bet she’s not so sore she lost out to Donna and Joseph McCaul now, eh? While You’re A Star, for which she made the last 10, probably did a lot for her confidence and profile, a gimmicky start to Sinead’s career probably wasn’t the best idea given that debut ‘Finally…’ demonstrates that she’s a serious musician.
There’s no denying she’s off to join the rather crowded ranks of female singer-songwriters that might as was well morph into one giant Alanis Morrisette. But with a voice as spunky as hers, there’s every chance she can hold her own.
Yet another pop star spawned by a reality TV show – this young Texas-born singer-songwriter (and sister of Jessica) comes courtesy of MTV’s Ashlee show, which tracked her through the whole process of recording this album.
Studt has an agreeable voice and a burdgeoning songwriting talent but, as with Lavigne, the problem is that there are so many hands involved with the album’s writing and production that it’s hard to work out where the Studt ends and the corporate machine begins.
Reading the lyric sheet that accompanies Adventure is somewhat like peeking into a teenager's diary. Yep, you guessed it, angst, angst and more angst, with enough overwrought, deliberately oblique lyrics to keep Adrian Mole in novel material long into middle-age.
Sorry, my mistake. I thought I was off to see a Cole Porter biopic. You know, the champagne-swilling, charismatic omnisexual raconteur who invested his songs and his nightlife with the same saucy elegance?
This debut offering from new BMG signing Natasha Bedingfield – a rather gorgeous, twentysomething, South Londoner of Kiwi extraction – opens promisingly enough. Current single ‘These Words’ is already a massive radio hit, and deservedly so.
A New Jersey-ite Eurocentric who mixes the buttoned-up gravitas of Dusty Springfield and Karen Carpenter with the lush orchestral tapestries of Bacharach and Spector. A Girl Called Eddy’s bohemian rhapsody is well worth acquainting yourself with.
Nerd godhead Kevin Smith has gone back to the motherlode with his new movie, Clerks II. Middle age has done little to dent his infatuation with potty humour, he tells Tara Brady.
Jackie hayden meetsjournalist turned PR guru, Tony O Brien and speaks to him about his rock n roll adventures with the likes of U2, Michael Stipe and Bruce Springsteen.
