In an exclusive interview in today's Hot Press, Scottish singer/songwriter Amy MacDonald admits that meeting U2 gave her “a really strange feeling".
MacDonald explains: “I was at a German awards ceremony and I came back to my dressing-room and there had been a note delivered to my room saying, 'Amy, come and say hello to your fan-club', and it was signed ‘Bono, Larry, the Edge and Adam’. For me, that was unbelievable. I spent some time with them in their dressing room before the show and they were just down to earth, and so nice.
“I’ve learned a lot from them,” she adds. “But if there was one thing that I would say was more important than the others, then that would be in how I talk to the people who buy my records.”
Read the full interview with Amy MacDonald in today’s issue of Hot Press with MGMT on the cover.
"...there are songs about dead dogs, Pete Doherty, and even a Killers cover version, all of which are rapturously and raucously received."
Read More The February show by Scottish singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald has been moved from the Sugar Club to Whelan's to meet demand.
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Read More The great thing about Amy MacDonald is that she does the simple things so well, managing to sound thrilling and alive when so many of her ilk fall flat. Acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums, that voice and the kind of cutting lyric that only the young can get away with – it all adds up to near perfection.
Read More Already tagged this year’s KT Tunstall, the Glaswegian 19-year-old is fast becoming a festival favourite on the British circuit with a slew of appearances lined up.
Read More You know you’re getting older when new artists come along who were first inspired to pick up a guitar by Pete Doherty. Glaswegian Amy MacDonald is part of the new wave of musicians, equally versed in all aspects of the medium. What impresses most is that she has both a young and old head on her shoulders. She may take a great deal of her motivation from the sheer thrill of making music and hanging out with bands (her online diary gushes with tales of sitting behind the Killers at the Brits and the like) but ‘Poison Prince’ belies a maturity beyond her years. Her voice is rich and clear and the song marries a mainstream sheen with the kind of Scottish folk twang so beloved of the missing in action Sons And Daughters. An album follows in the summer, I’d keep an eye out if I were you.
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