When the French folk-pop singer Mina Tindle supported fellow Gallic artist Camille at the Barbican recently, you could tell the lesser known musician had fairly slayed the audience, when before her final song, someone shouted out for Tindle to introduce herself (it may have been a savvy employee of her record label, mind you, but still...).
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Jodie Marie - The shy singer who became a folk-pop sensation
Saturday 12 May 2012
But for a chance encounter in a B&B in west Wales, Jodie Marie might never have got a record deal. She still can't quite believe it's all happening, she tells Elisa Bray
Album: Sarah Jane Morris, Cello Songs (Cinik)
Sunday 06 May 2012
Twenty-odd years after "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "Me and Mrs Jones", vocalist Morris sounds better than ever – deeper, stronger, sassier – in this beautifully detailed Italian concept album of 10 superior pop songs arranged and conducted for voice and cello orchestra by Enrico Melozzi.
Andrew Love: Saxophonist with the Memphis Horns
Friday 27 April 2012
The tenor saxophonist Andrew Love played on some of the most enduring soul records to come out of Memphis in the 1960s.
Jane Czyzselska: Jessie J gets the Rock Hudson treatment
Sunday 22 April 2012
Why being gay is 'bad for business', even now
Connor finds 'delight' in a true bore draw
Sunday 15 April 2012
Sunderland 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0: Wolves manager accentuates the positive but eight-point gap to safety shows need for miracle
Rosie Millard: Viewers want to see talent, not crying
Tuesday 10 April 2012
We're having too bad a time for misery on a Saturday night
Versace shows a clean pair of heels on catwalk and in the boardroom
Sunday 01 April 2012
After dark times following the murder of founder Gianni, the fashion firm has turned the corner and is back in profit
Festival Guide 2012: 'Bestival's for adults as well as kids'
Friday 30 March 2012
If the term family festival conjures the unwelcome image of bouncy castles and entertainers, Camp Bestival might change your view.
Sting at Hammersmith Apollo, London
Wednesday 21 March 2012
“Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.”
'Justice has been done': singer P J Proby cleared of £47,000 benefits fraud
Saturday 17 March 2012
PJ Proby, the veteran pop singer, has been cleared of benefit fraud after the prosecution dropped its case following the discovery of new evidence. Proby, 73, was acquitted on all nine counts after being accused of cheating the benefits system out of more than £47,000 by claiming he had just £5 in the bank.
PJ Proby fraud trial is stopped following new evidence
Friday 16 March 2012
American-born pop singer PJ Proby has been cleared of benefit fraud after the prosecution dropped its case following the discovery of new evidence.
Jay-Z to headline the Hackney Weekend 2012
Friday 09 March 2012
Rap superstar Jay-Z is to headline BBC Radio 1's Olympic celebration, the Hackney Weekend 2012
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