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Biography

Amy Macdonald was born on August 25, 1987 in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire. She’s a Scottish singer and songwriter.
Her debut album, This Is The Life, was released on 30 July 2007 and has sold more than 2.5 million copies. Her first single, “Poison Prince”, was released on 7 May 2007. She played shows at music festivals such as Glastonbury, Hyde Park, T in the Park, and V festival. Amy is signed to record company Vertigo. Amy’s vocal range is contralto.
Macdonald started playing on stage acoustic gigs at 15.

Artistic influences

Her influences include Travis, Pete Doherty, and The Libertines.

Inspired by

Everyday-life

Stories behind songs

This is the life

Amy MacDonald wrote this song when she was 15. She told the Daily Mail January 18, 2008: “Some people don’t get the irony in this. It’s not supposed to be a call to arms. It’s supposed to be funny.”

Mr Rock & Roll

Amy MacDonald explained to the Liverpool Daily Post that this song is about people rather than music. She said: “The whole message is just be yourself. It’s about two people who’ve been pretending to be something they’re not in order to fit in with a certain group, and because of that, these amazing people who would have got on so well and made a brilliant couple pass each other by. Both of them have been feeling that they’ve had to fit in elsewhere, but they’ve missed out as a result.”

Barrowland Ballroom

“Barrowland Ballroom” is a tribute to the iconic Glasgow concert venue, where Macdonald has many happy memories of gigs that she’s attended.
Amy Macdonald told the Daily Mail January 18, 2008: “Going to see gigs at Barrowlands was always a big event. Playing there myself was even better.”

Discography

This is the life (2007)

1. Mr Rock & Roll
2. This Is The Life
3. Poison Prince
4. Youth of Today
5. Run
6. Let’s Start A Band
7. Barrowland Ballroom
8. L.A.
9. A Wish For Something More
10. Footballer’s Wife
11. The Road To Home

Where you can buy the music

This is the life (at Amazon.com)

Tour dates

For tour-dates visit this page.

Official website

http://www.amymacdonald.co.uk/

Biography

Alison Sudol (born December 23, 1984 in Seattle, Washington, USA), known professionally as A Fine Frenzy (formerly Alison Monro) is an American alternative singer and songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, One Cell in the Sea, was released on July 17, 2007, and peaked at number 91 on the Billboard 200 chart. She has been in the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and France, amongst other countries. Her music has been featured on television shows, an on the soundtrack of the film Sleepwalking.

Sudol had a passion for literature, and immersed herself in the works of C. S. Lewis, E.B. White, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens. Her artist name, “A Fine Frenzy”, is taken from a verse in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus, Act 5, Scene 1 – “The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven”). She became an author in her own right, and after teaching herself to play the piano, began putting her creative energy into writing songs.
The short demo she sent out received attention from EMI’s Jason Flom, who signed her after visiting her house and listening to her play.

Artistic influences

Born in Seattle, Washington to two dramatic arts teachers, Sudol and her mother moved to Los Angeles after her parents divorced when she was five years old. She grew up listening to a wide range of music, including Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, swing, jazz, The Beatles, Motown.

Inspired by

Sudol has often referred to the literary influences on her music. In an interview she described her debut album as “Sort of like the soundtrack to a fairytale.” More recently she has disclosed that she is also pursuing a secondary career as a writer. In an interview she said she was writing a children’s story in the “Narnia” tradition, a fantasy featuring animals.

Stories behind songs

The minnow & the trout

This song contains the verse which gave the name to the album “One cell in the sea”. Alison told in an interview “To me it’s that idea that no matter how different from one another we are, there is some common thing that unites us.”

Discography

One Cell in the Sea (2007)

1. Come On, Come Out
2. The Minnow & The Trout
3. Whisper
4. You Picked Me
5. Rangers
6. Almost Lover
7. Think of You
8. Ashes and Wine
9. Liar, Liar
10. Last of Days
11. Lifesize
12. Near to You
13. Hope for the Hopeless
14. Borrowed Time

Bomb in a Birdcage (2009)

1. What I Wouldn’t Do
2. New Heights
3. Electric Twist
4. Blow Away
5. Happier
6. Swan Song
7. Elements
8. World Without
9. Bird Of The Summer
10. Stood Up
11. Beacon

Where you can buy the music

One cell in the sea (at Amazon.com)
Bomb in a birdcage (at Amazon.com)

Official website

http://www.afinefrenzy.com/