did anybody she the live webcast on sandi thom's website, where she signing to record company RCA? It was about 9pm last night?

 

anyone heard of her? has she had any top 75 hits doing the nizlopi distribution route thing?

 

the newspaper said that she has been doing web based live gigs and getting loads and loads of people watching and that got the big comapnies interested. wow :dance:

 

they think she's the new kt tunstall

Edited April 5, 200619 yr by tigerboy

was in the independent review yesterday. said news of her has all been over the internet? not on this site obviously!

Yes I've read about her on Virgin.Net & DigitalSpy.com

 

Well we havent got a Singer/Songwriter/Spotlight forum at the moment, so there was nowhere to put the info. (Coughs: Please Vote for this forum Vote Here.)

 

She's not yet released a single although she has been a guest on Stuart Maconie's DriveTime show on Radio2.

 

She's not yet released a single although she has been a guest on Stuart Maconie's DriveTime show on Radio2.

 

not too sure? i think she has had a small hit with the punk rocker song released on her own record label, i think ive seen it in the chart and wondered at the time if she was some kind of Swedish punkette or what?

not too sure? i think she has had a small hit with the punk rocker song released on her own record label, i think ive seen it in the chart and wondered at the time if she was some kind of Swedish punkette or what?

 

 

You are correct - I've just checked Polyhex.com:

 

She had one hit - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) it charted #55 for 1week (15/10/2005).

 

 

You are correct - I've just checked Polyhex.com:

 

She had one hit - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) it charted #55 for 1week (15/10/2005).

 

so what label was it on, must be v. random and indie

I've looked on her website & can't find that info out - but her album is due for release in June 2006.

I've looked on her website & can't find that info out - but her album is due for release in June 2006.

 

on rca!!!

 

she was signed to the record company by manager of pink, craig logan. it was billed as the first web signing in history

Other people reading this thread may want to.....Look Here

 

I think she'll do well.

did anybody she the live webcast on sandi thom's website, where she signing to record company RCA? It was about 9pm last night?

 

anyone heard of her? has she had any top 75 hits doing the nizlopi distribution route thing?

 

the newspaper said that she has been doing web based live gigs and getting loads and loads of people watching and that got the big comapnies interested. wow :dance:

 

they think she's the new kt tunstall

 

Did you read it in the paper first or watch the webcast first?

 

I got a feeling the media made the story.... -_-

I didn't know Punk Rocker was a re-release. :huh:

it was? and no, i didnt see it

I didn't know Punk Rocker was a re-release. :huh:

Yes, definitely.

 

Original artwork from October 2005 release.

http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/VIKINGS04.JPG

Did you read it in the paper first or watch the webcast first?

well this thread is a bit of a blast from the past so ill try to remember.

 

think i missed the webcast as it was in the evening as i think ended up watching never mind the buzzcocks that night (or something like that) and only remembered that i was gonna go and have a look the next day when i wrote the post. think because she was on viking legacy records and called sandi thom thought she might actually be danish and so could sound a bit like the raveonettes. so was interested. i had heard of the live gig thingy before (probably in music week's unsigned tips for the week) and new about the webcast signing as it said about the bloke from P!nk's management (craig logan) looking over the rca part of sonybmg

 

 

I got a feeling the media made the story.... -_-

 

have you been reading the independent too then, yesterday about how its a bit dodgy that she would have such large amounts of feeds to russia

have you been reading the independent too then, yesterday about how its a bit dodgy that she would have such large amounts of feeds to russia

 

Good thread Tigerboy, because your initial post asks the question no one answered, and there is a lot of music geeks here, it seems unusual that no one had seen it...yet at the same time the media was reporting otherwise.

Which suggests perhaps it's a PR stunt?

 

No, didn't read in the independent but online with the Guardian. So what did they say about these feeds from Russia?

That sounds a dodgy claim. :unsure:

apart from the "dodgy feeds" story, there's also the fact that she had gotten "help" from a friend to enable her to have enough bandwidth in order to have a webcast that 70,000 people could see!

 

and she'd toured the UK before signing to RCA

The Daily Record 2 June 2006

EXCLUSIVE: LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK

 

Webcast sensation Sandi Thom is tipped to hit No1 on Sunday - but she's amused by claims she's already worth £1million

By John Dingwall

 

FAME and fortune seem to have leapt into Sandi Thom's lap in the past few weeks - but the Scottish singer laughs at claims she is already a millionaire.

 

The deletion of Gnarls Barkley's nine-week No.1 single, Crazy, has left the 24-year-old Scot hotly tipped to take over the top spot on Sunday with her debut single I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair).

 

Now Sandi - who found fame by attracting 70,000 people to her webcast gigs - is already reported to have netted a £1million, five-album deal with Sony BMG.

 

But she scoffs at the claims, instead insisting that she wouldn't even know what to do with the cash if it did come to fruition because she has always been skint.

 

Sandi said: "Record companies rarely sign anyone for five albums these days. It is unheard of.

"You have to do well to progress so it is really up to the artist to sustain their career musically while the record company get it out there.

"We're taking it one album at a time and, as far as the record deal is concerned, I have not been handed £1million."

 

She added: "I don't think I would want to move into a mansion in Surrey anyway. I am very happy with the way my life is.

"I don't want to move too fast and bombard myself with new things. I've never had much money and still don't have that much.

"But what I do have is pretty cool because I have never seen much money before."

 

Just a few months ago, Sandi was completely unheard of.

But in the past week she has attended the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards, appeared on Top Of The Pops and watched her single rocket to No.2.

Next up, she tours the US in the hope of repeating the trick on there.

 

Sandi said: "The money is secondary to the fact I love what I do. I am going to get to go to America to tour with my band and do Top Of The Pops. These things are reward enough.

"I didn't expect the song to do that well but people seem to really like it, which is the coolest thing ever. I couldn't have wished for anything better."

 

The next few days are pivotal for Sandi - as well as her chart hopes for Sunday, her debut album Smile...It Confuses People is out on Monday.

That, like her launch-pad internet gigs, was a low-key effort. The album was recorded with pals in a barn in Cheshire for a fraction of the cost of most records these days.

But her homegrown approach is typical.

Her single was originally released on the tiny Orkney Viking Legacy label and only became a chart contender after being picked up by the Sony BMG just a few weeks ago.

The label giant was impressed by Sandi's "viral marketing" campaign which involved her staging web casts of concerts performed in the living room of her flat in Tooting, London.

 

The singer, born in Banff, grew up in nearby MacDuff and was inspired to take up a musical instrument after listening to her father and aunt performing locally.

And, despite being in bands since her teenage years, she is absolutely stunned by the success of her debut single.

She said: "My dad sang, played guitar and wrote songs and my aunt was a classical pianist. There were a lot of people around me who were very creative.

"I looked at them and thought it would be so cool to be a musician. I started playing piano when I was four and really liked it.

"All through my childhood I played and all through my teenage years I was in bands.

"Music, to me, reflects society so much and is such a powerful thing. It can be negative and positive power. It can heal people and all sorts.

"Even when I was singing songs as a teenager I realised people were being touched by it and I got real fulfillment from it.

"That was my job satisfaction and I realised that if I could do this and make a living from it, this would be something I wanted to do."

 

At 18, Sandi got the opportunity to go to the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), where she formed a seven-piece funk band.

And she turned to the vast experience of the school's founder - former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney - when the demos she had sent to record companies were rejected. After Sir Paul advised her to keep it simple, she decided to ditch her track's intricate instrumentation.

 

Sandi recalled: "I needed advice as to why people wanted me to do this or that. So I asked Paul McCartney what I should do.

"He explained to me that the first thing you have to do is strip things back to basics if you want to be an artist.

"He told me that if you keep everything simple you can't go wrong.

"Of course, keeping it simple is the hardest thing to do. Writing the simplest song is the toughest thing ever.

"He was right because being in a uni with all those musicians turned me into a muso where we'd have seven-minute guitar solos.

"I was lucky enough to meet him because he is the patron of that university.

"He gives everyone the parchment when they graduate and shakes your hand."

 

STUDYING at LIPA also opened up Sandi to advice from other stars - including Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, Spice Girl Mel C and singer Finlay Quaye, who all took seminars there.

Sandi said: "LIPA was great. I had been in the country all my life, riding horses, going to school and doing band practices on a Saturday. Then I moved to Liverpool where I was thrust into a community of thriving musicians.

"It was weird for the first week and like everyone else I went, 'I want to go home. I miss my mum'. But after a week I was like, 'This is brilliant, I love it.'

"It was a tough environment and you had to put the work in to get something out of LIPA.

"What you get out depends on what you put in. But it was also a really cool place for people to meet.

"I met my band there and formed a clique of musicians. I met really cool people there and it gave me an insight into the industry.

"It was very competitive with all these musicians wanting the same thing."

 

With her uni days behind her, Sandi is eager to set the record straighton the meaning behind her single.

She said: "The line 'with flowers in my hair' is a metaphor for being a hippy.

"A lot of people have mistaken the punk with flower hair thing as meaning having a Mohawk. But it's metaphorical for the summer of love and hippies.

"Both those punks and hippies were anti-establishment groups re same hymn book.

"They had different values and different morals but they both fought the establishment. It would have been cool to have seen it."

 

She is also keen to deny jibes that her webcasts were a carefully plotted PR exercise aimed at hyping her into the charts.

Around 70,000 people logged on to watch her perform

And Sandi recalled: "I'd played a venue in Edinburgh called Left Bank last October.

"They webcast it and I remember going home and watching it then telling all my mates and my mum to log on and watch it.

"I thought this is the coolest thing ever. You can watch my gig and you don't even need to be there. At that time the gigs were costing more money than they were taking in.

"I remember asking the guy at the Left Bank what you needed to do a webcast and he told me you need a company to stream it, a web camera and a PC and somewhere to do it.

"Also in my favour was the fact that I live in this flat in Tooting with a soundproofed basement.

"The guy who owned it was a jazz musician and he'd used it a studio and a live room.

"That was the reason I moved into the flat in the first place.

"We didn't know what would happen but I thought, let's give it a go. It seemed like an exciting thing to try.

"We set up a website inviting people to come down - but we really didn't know if they would.

"We even put my address on the website because we didn't think it would go ballistic - only one couple turned up from Spain.

 

"But the media went mad over it and I had every man and his dog in my basement wanting to know what I was doing.

"The record companies' ears pricked up because using the internet to promote your music is revolutionary.

"We did showcases for them all. But Sony BMG wouldn't have asked me to sign if they didn't love the music.

"Thirty years ago it would have been an A&R man coming to a gig. "Webcasting is nothing more than a modern version of that."

'I don't want to bombard myself with new things. I've never had much money - and I still don't have much'

 

Good thread Tigerboy, because your initial post asks the question no one answered, and there is a lot of music geeks here, it seems unusual that no one had seen it...yet at the same time the media was reporting otherwise.

 

however still a lot of the time people will only talk about a thread if the record is getting a lot of airplay and its in the charts. lokk at joan the police woman, shes been getting loads of great reviews in the press and im interested to hear what shes like, but no-one gonna be bothered until she gets top 20, same if i started something about Camera Obscura or You Say Party! We say Die! which after reading the reviews think i might pick up if they are this months hmv playlist options