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The soulful Scot brings her individual brand of folk-pop to the Academy
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When Amy Macdonald emerged in 2007, the music scene was witnessing a plethora of kooky pop vixens, in a new era for women in the business. Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash, Adele, Duffy, Gabriella Cilmi…we could go on. Though the time of the soulful female performers is not over, it is not such a fad now and whilst Adele and Duffy have crossed the pond to make big waves in America, artists like Nash and Macdonald have lasted the mile and are still working on their own sound.
After winning Best International Newcomer at Germany’s Echo Awards, reaching number one in 10 countries and going five-times platinum in Switzerland, Amy might have felt that she had little more to prove. She then knocked Radiohead’s In Rainbows album off the top spot with This is the Life in early 2008. However, she was still to make a mark in this country in the way that her musical peers have done.
Her new album A Curious Thing features a duet with Paul Weller, who is a huge fan of Amy’s. She has toured with him extensively and he has been a big supporter of her work, gaining her some much-needed extra attention in the promotion of her second album release.
Her new single from the album, ‘An Ordinary Life’, has already garnered much attention and is a great start to the body of work which should show the world what beautiful music singer-songwriter, who taught herself to play the guitar, is truly capable of creating.
Amy Macdonald is playing Leeds Academy on 31st March, 7.30pm. £22.50
Posted on Wednesday 10th March 2010
Rebecca Ryder
O2 Academy Leeds
55 Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 3AW
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