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Without wishing to offend any of her fans but the biggest problem I think is her target audience. Since Who I Am onwards she has mainly appealed to the middle England, middle aged type audience and they're not exactly the most teccy type of people, she's probably lost loads sales due to the fact that she has gone down the digital only route. Even though I'm extremely happy for her that she has gone down the independant route, I'm not so sure that she has the resources to do this. EMI were able to provide her with a much bigger platform to promote (even though they never did nearly enough) but they did twice as much as she has been able to do independantly. I hate EMI anyway so I'm glad she's no longer with them regardless. That sounds a bit selfish though.

Did anyone know that 100% is being released in Germany on the 4th December? This German site does an extremely positive review of Beverley, 100% and sums up her career better than any other review i've read (translated version) http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl...knight%26sa%3DN It says it is being released via Hurricane Records/Warner Music ...?

I know, it's annoying enough when showbiz and news websites get it wrong but her old label of 10 years? Wouldn't have been so bad if it was inside the booklet but it's right on the back. Muppets

YES, that is the one I have been looking for!!!! That's great, I'm gonna grab that CD when I get the chance to go with all the other C-Swing mixes I have. Made It Back, Rewind, Get Up, and I think I have a C-swing mix of Greatest Day. Aaron, I'll send you a pm to your inbox

Yeah the quality is good. It isn't footage from the crowd, its proper footage from the filming crew that were there. For some reason it was never released or broadcast though, it somehow made it's way on to a forum some years ago which doesn't exist anymore.

Was in the record store a few weeks ago to replace Music City Soul but they didn't have it, all they had was 100% and this so I begrudgingly bought a copy. It does have a great Biography in the booklet but the tracklist is so odd. Funny how on the back they spell her name 'Beverly' ... lol

Does anyone want a copy? She did a concert back in 2002 at the MCM Cafe in Paris which I have the video footage for and not a single person I have spoken to has it. Seems such a shame for this video footage to be wasted on one fan. I'm currently on the laptop so haven't got the tracklist on me but it goes something like Whatever's Clever Made It Back Sista Sista Greatest Day I Feel For You Shoulda Woulda Coulda Flavour Of The Old School Gold Get Up

Yeah I love that version too! Aaron, do you only have the 7" mix then? I definitely have the 12" mix on vinyl and I'm pretty sure I have a digital copy of it too, I'll check for you. They made so many remixes of the releases from Prodigal Sista, I have about 9 remixes of Made It Back plus an instrumental & acapella. I'm eager to get my hands on the C-Swing mixes though. I have the C-Swing mix of Made It Back and the C-Swing mix of Rewind (find A Way) but can't find the C-Swing mix of A.W.O.L. anywhere!! I know someone on the BK Fansite who has it but they won't share it, which isn't surprising. You'd have more luck trying get blood from a stone than you would getting someone on that site to share anything. They're such a precious bunch... Any other remixes you're looking for Aaron? I have GBs of them on my computer, hundreds of 'em.

God, that performance was so boring! Glad I didn't go to the album launch now coz I probably would have left after 20 minutes anyway if it was as boring and non eventful as that. The material on this album is seriously the biggest load of sh*t she's ever tried to push forward. Why cant she just be true to her voice and give up on this light-weight, vacuous pop. She has some of the fiercest, slickest, soul, funk and R&B vocals & vibes to grace these shores yet she insists on pushing ahead with this sub-standard pop. Beverley Knight trying to do pop is like Britney Spears trying to do soul...

I suppose #71 isn't too bad considering the whole promo from this revolves around 1 tv appearance... Oh and the odd play here and there on Smooth FM. Without the internet, this era is just a massive black hole.

A few people have said that so I've tried to make myself like it but the more I listen to it, the more I dislike it. Her voice on the chorus is overbearing and quite annoying. Just trying to think of who would like it (non bev fans) and I honestly can't imagine anyone singing along to it. Far too camp for any male and a bit high school musical and uncool for most girls. Unless she wants to tap into Same Difference's fan base :puke2:

Gold Chain Just getting used to this one now, it has bags of swagger about it, quite interesting arrangement and directions within the song. Not typical boring ballad with predictable verse/chorus/middle 8/chorus to fade (or key change every other chorus to fade) -.- Coming up next - Soul Survivor :D

Apparently the third single is going to be Turned To Stone...??? That, along with Painted Pony are the worst 2 songs on this album. Turned To Stone sounds like one of those totally average songs for a totally average singer. Every time I hear it, I can't help but think it should have been a song by someone like S Club 7 for High School Musical. Utter Dirge! And Painted Pony, well that's exactly what it is, sh*t dressed up as a song.

I think she has had so many years of disappointment now that she is just happy to make good music and make a decent living out of it. As she said herself - when it's record companies it's all about rearranging tracks to suit them and shifting 'units'. Wth her own label it's about making music she likes and selling a creative work, , not 'shifting x amount of units'

I know, I woke up with the idea that I was going but the closer it got I kept thinking ''Oh man I can't be arsed to travel all that distance by public transport and again on the way back'' plus my neutrality for the album went against the decision for me to go too. I know, from the video it seems to be very much like the gig she did at the MCM cafe in paris - a hundred or so people there with no barrier or anything.

Glad you had a great time, great review!!! SO gutted I didn't go now after watching those clips, sounds amazing. still got my unused tickets, lol. To be honest, I'm not really liking anything from this album bar a few tracks and I couldn't be arsed to traipse all the way there but from those clips, she sounds amazing. Should have just got ready and went. Definitely not giving up my tickets for Royal Albert Hall though. Funny thing is though, I got unused tickets from the Michael Jackson tour and they are dated exactly the same so they will both sit on the shelf unused.... (when they get around to sending out the bloody MJ tickets, that is)

I felt the same about that part at first too but after a few listens I quite enjoy it now. I prefer it when she goes up to C#5 and then wiggles her voice down. Still not 100% sold on the harmonies though, they don't sound human! I suppose it's different for her to show a little refrain as opposed to powering through everything. Whe she comes back town from the note, just listen very carefully a couple of times. See how quick she runs through the notes? That is what you call vocal SKILL! It takes huge amount of skill to riff through many notes at such a quick pace.

Duh, my mistake !! It does start at 6 LOL! I've read the 18:00 but not seen the '1' so read it as 8:00 :embarrassed: so yeah she'll definitely be on then.. I'd imagine it would be finishing about 45 minutes after that anyway so there'd be no point in turning up that late.

Oh right, well I'll be there about 30 minutes early and hope for the best then :D I don't think she will be on that early, the show starts at 20:00 so her support act will be on for a good 30 minutes first. You know, I thought the EXACT same thing about her being similar to VV Brown. I looked up her videos on youtube and watched Box n Locks and thought the same thing. She seems pretty cool and quirky so should be enjoyable.

Wah? They work on a first come first serve basis? Does that mean you have to get there early and cue to make sure you get in? I hope not because it opens at 6 and I won't be able to get there till about 20 minutes before that. Yeah I see that but don't know who they are exactly. I will have to do a bit of utubing in the next couple of days to familiarise myself with them.

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Well scratch what I said yesterday, I have just recieved my email today confirming that I have won tickets!! I've actually won twice so I have 4 tickets now which is even better because I can take a few people along rather than just 2 people. I do feel slightly guilty for winning twice though, I only entered more than once to stand a better chance of winning, didn't think I'd win 2 times in a million years.

Oh that's strange, I didn't get a newsletter via the BK website! I've signed up to that site with 3 different email addresses too :wacko: Everytime Bev does something from her site, you have to re-sign up for that newsletter again, don't you? I had to sign up for the Money Back demo, then again when I entered a competition, then I had to sign up again when I downloaded Every Step... lol. My mistake, it's the 25th! Uh huh I'll be at the ICA in September too :D I was gonna go see her this month at icon-icoustic but god knows how to get tickets to it, it was all in German! Then I'll be seeing her on tour but my date falls under the second half catchment which is next year.

Oh there were 2 ways of entering? I only did it via the website link that was posted and I'm pretty sure it said they'd contact you via email 7 days before the date of the gig you had won tickets for. I could have sworn that Bev was on the 26th and not the 25th too lol... I was going to enter for the Golden Ticket competition too for back-stage passes but when I read the T&Cs I thought I'd rather not. I'm seeing her again in September, I'm just being greedy really

Oh well done, you lucky bugger! I applied both times for this and didn't win either :( This time I even applied with about 5 different email addresses but still didn't win. Suppose that will teach me for cheating LOL! Last time she did it, her set-list had about 15 songs on it but they only released 6 via itunes so this year they'll probably just do the same and not include any of her new songs. Or they might include a few album songs like Every Step if she perorms them.