Juliet's Hurricane brewing in Britain

Juliet Turner’s Season Of The Hurricane has entered the amazon.co.uk charts at No.13 in the first week of its release. Turner’s is the only non-major label album in the Amazon charts this week, underlining the huge impression that the Tyrone-born singer has made in the UK, while effectively following her own independent path. The record is released in Britain on Hear This!, the label run by Turner and her manager Derek Nally, the singer having split from East West after a change in management personnel at the Warners’ subsidiary.

"We’re very proud of what we’ve achieved so far," Derek Nally told hotpress.com. "There is a very strong fanbase already established in the UK, and now we want to build on that. Burn The Black Suit did very well on Amazon, and is still selling steadily in Britain generally, but it is great to see this kind of positive reaction to the release of the new record. The important thing is that Juliet is in charge of her own destiny, which is a great position to be in."

Turner is just about to embark on an extensive UK tour to promote Season Of The Hurricane, with a prestige show lined up for the Borderline in London on April 30th. To date, she has been heavily supported in Britain by Terry Wogan, who regularly plays tracks from her Burn The Black Suit album on his BBC Radio 2 show, and who has already strongly featured ‘Everything Beautiful Is Burning’, the first single from Season Of The Hurricane. The latest figures give Wogan a staggering listenership of close to 8 million, making him an increasingly powerful influence on the music scene in the UK.

"I think if Wogan continues to play the record, she can step up to the next level in the UK," one music biz insider told hotpress.com. "She has great presence live and there is undoubtedly a huge audience out there for her music. The challenge is always to make the connection, but she has been doing all the right things in that regard, so I would be very optimistic. I think Warners might yet live to regret losing the album."

Meanwhile, Season Of The Hurricane has already gone gold in Ireland, with sales in Turner’s home base having passed the 10,000 mark. The second single from the album, ‘1987’, has just been released and is picking up heavy plays from Ireland’s regional stations. A number of dates have already been lined up for May, with appearances confirmed for The Ardone Theatre Enniskillen (Thurs, May 27), Millennium Forum, Derry (29) and Bumavan, Cookstown (30).