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True. Its catchy though. Hopefully she'll get a chance with her next album to hone down her music to a more specific less produced sound. Her album 'Little Dreamer' is good, and shows promise, but doesn't do her justice compared with seeing her live. Surely a live album is on the cards? ALSO, well done to Beth for entering the UK album charts at number 6! Thats pretty good!!

Here's a new thread with links to some footage of Beth Rowley performing recently for an MSN music session. I just got her album. Its good. There's maybe a couple of 'shaky' tracks on 'Little Dreamer' but on the whole is a great first album. In the mean time here are some links to the footage. This girl, let me tell you, has to be seen live. Music lovers will appreciate her talent....? Oh My Life - Beth Rowley I Would Rather Go Blind - Beth Rowley Sweet Hours - Beth Rowley

Beth Rowley's new video for the single 'So Sublime' out digitally on the 12th of May and physical release on 19th of May: xRyE5lbXiDg This is another catchy song in the same vein as her last single 'Oh My Life'. I quite like it. Caught her London Bush Hall gig on the 16th of April, click here link for the Independent's review of the gig.

I agree. There have been some really good Mojo Cds of late. The April Cd with Beth on was jammed full of fantastic tracks. I've played it loads. I'll have to get the May issue. By the way Beth Rowley performed two tracks on Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night on fri. 4th of April. She sang 'Nobodies Fault But Mine' and 'Oh My Life' with an orchestral backing. Oh My Life was played differently to the single version and it sounded really good. Here's the link if you want to 'listen again'.Beth on Radio 2 Fri 4th April.

I thought I'd start a Beth Rowley thread. If you haven’t heard her then you should take a listen. I downloaded her EP 'Violets' before Christmas and was impressed with Beth’s vocal range. As mentioned in other threads Beth has been lumped in with lots of other female vocalists of late, rather unfairly in my opinion. Of course they all have a similarity in that they're all female that’s where it stops though. BethRowley 7 Digital Beth Rowley Myspace It seems unfortunate that she is seemingly being pushed by her label (Universal/Blue Thumb) down a more 'poppy' route when her real talent, I feel, lies in blues and gospel. You may have heard her song 'Oh my life' being played all over BBc Radio 2- a song which I think is good 'n catchy, I've found my self singing it a few times, but feels a bit of a commercial concession when compared to her other track 'Nobodies fault but mine'. 'Oh My Life' is not at all a general representation of her music at all. I've seen her live several times and caught her again recently supporting Newton Faulkner at Camden's Roundhouse where once again she was fantastic. The rest of the audience seemed to love her stuff as well. She has a somewhat understated stage presence which is soon over looked when she opens her mouth. Her live sound is what I'd describe as 'real and raw' which is refreshing when lots of other live music is just too slick and emotionless. Her Roundhouse gig was only about 40 mins and I could have listened to her for a lot longer. Newton Faulkner was fantastic too. Has any one else heard Beth live? If so what did you think? http://www.thetrousers.co.uk/reviews/280106-bethrowley-hours-big.jpg http://images.digitalspy.co.uk/08/08/150x150_Beth_Rowley_Oh-my-life.jpg http://images.play.com/covers/3593756m.jpg

Radio 5 live on the Simon Mayo show, Wednesday 5th March about 2hours 15min into the show Beth Rowley went head to head with the Observers’ Kitty Empire in a discussion about the 'Fad' of recent female singers. Beth Rowley stood her ground and made some good points not least on the worthlessness of the discussion itsself. Misery monger cynic Kitty didn't really have any solid argument on this matter and Beth came out on top with her overriding honesty and passion out shining the others on the show. Well done Beth Rowley for standing up. Radio 5 Live"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/mayo.shtml?focuswin"]Radio 5 Live

Hmmm.. Don't agree with this. Though I haven't heard enough of Cilmi to say for sure she seems more 'poppy' and also very young. Have you seen Beth Rowley live? If you haven't I think you may change your opinion (sounds like you may have already made your mind up though! :) ). She blows people away with her voice at gigs, really. She's got a different style again and some of the bluesier /gospel songs she sings I couldn't imagine Duffy pulling off as well. Its early days yet though but the girl has got real potential and substance- lets wait for the album. Can't wait for the release of Duffy's album. I agree she has a totally different style to Winehouse though she does fit in quite snuggly behind her if 'Mercy' is anything to go by. She's deffo got the talent (probably an understatement), the presence, she seems like a genuinely nice person and not to mention has excellent, glitzy production. She's obviously got a good team around her at management and record label level who have all done there jobs perfectly in terms hitting timing and marketing right on the head- obviously they could see what a talent she was and they pulled out all the stops. Also can't wait to hear what sort of album Amy Winehouse is going to put out next. I can't see it being anything like the same style as back to black. I'm thinking that large parts of her audience may have moved on as she will have probably done and can see her wanting to do something totally different - hitting us all from a different angle...

Don't normally bother with the Brit Awards but got totally sucked up into the Winehouse/Ronson hype-asaurus and liked it.Lots. Saw Kate Nash receiving her award and I thought she did well to comment that 'female is not a genre'. That kinda summed up the whole patranising topic of lumping all girl singers together. Nice one Kate!

<_< Wooooaaah there!! Beth Rowley has been gigging for ages! I first saw her at Glastonbury festival in 2005 singing bluesy/gospel numbers. Ok it was on one of the smaller stages and not the Pyramid stage that I saw Winehouse on two years later. The next time I saw Rowley was at Shepherds Bush Empire last month where she gave an impressive performance. Duffy-who I'm looking forward to seeing very soon, Rowley, Cilmi and Adele are all fantastic artists, the Observer article left me scratching my head as these artists haven't just 'appeared out of thin air' and can't be labeled 'copycats'. indeed from doing some basic research online they seem to have all been working on their careers for some time - way before the amazing Back to Black. Maybe the article writer should do some basic research (thats what journalists do isn't it?). I'm sure I'm not the only person to think it rather cynical and not that useful as a 'review'. This kind of cynical journalism, no matter who its regarding, is most annoying- a review should be a review!!? The Observer, which I often read, needs to pull its socks up! :)