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Celt Celebrity There’s no reason why you’d ever want to go to Bishopbriggs. On the outskirts of Glasgow, this sorry-looking commuter town, where it always seems to be drizzling, is probably the last place you’d seriously consider visiting on a tour of Scotland. Unless of course you were looking to catch up with his young lady. 21-year old Amy Mcdonald was born, bred and - although she now could easily afford to leave - still lives in Bishopbriggs. And her tower-block flat (above) has become something of a local tourist attraction. Macdonald, who started playing on-stage acoustic gigs at the age of 15, says her main influences include Travis and The Libertines. Singing in folksy style with Celtic intonation, her lyrics are based on real life issues and situations.  Her song Footballers' Wives, for example, is based on British tabloid obsessed culture. Amy: “The footballer’s wife thing is part of this horrible obsession in Britain we have with celebrity". In Poison Prince - the last fifth release from her debut album - McDonald focuses on pop-star drug addiction. With sales of over 600, 000, the album This Is the Life, makes Amy the biggest female singer/songwriter to emerge in 2007. After touring Britain and Europe for 18 months, Mc Donald is now taking "continental" Europe by storm too. Blimey, they're even playing her on Bayern 3! Footballers' Wives This is the Life My personal favourite is Let's Start a Band. It's fever-pitch emotion pure, with a haunting trumpet arrangement. Tims Video Box My Top 20 old and new! See what's hot - or not!  I love MusicBack to Song of the Month | Dancing Queens but it was responsible for letting the Bee Gees loose on the world. 70s music was every bit as cheesy as this tepee wearer. But this 70's tune's a real exception: A lovely seasonal song - Forever Autumn, from Justin Hayward. Whatever happened to those dreamers?  Asks Jack Savoretti in this beautiful song There was a politician, men of the cloth, painters and poets, Starting a revolution, without even knowing, Making the world around us, Saying so much about us, still they have so much to tell." An advert for the gerund or just a very good piece of music? Savoretti has been called everything from a "scruffy Bohemian matador" to a "confused cross between Neil Diamond and Simon & Garfunkel". | Recognise her? 35-year old Kate Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of the day. In 2001 "The Guardian" described her as "a superstar of the British acoustic scene." In 2007 the BBC website described her as "The first lady of young folkies". Kate Rusby comes from a family of musicians. After learning to play the guitar, the fiddle, and the piano, as well as to sing, she played in many local folk festivals as a child and adolescent, before leading all-female Celtic folk band The Poozies. In 2006 she reached Number 6 in the UK Top Ten with "All Over Again", a duet with Ronan Keating. In the same year her rendition of The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society was used as the theme tune to the BBC comedy Jam and Jerusalem. An album titled Awkward Annie was released on 3 September 2007. Her version of Village Green Preservation Society (Know Howe's favourite video version) is included as a bonus track. See how many different typical "images" of Britain you recognise.Images of Britain "We are the Skyscraper condemnation affiliate God save tudor houses, antique shops and billiards Preserving the old ways from being abused Protecting the new ways for me and for you What more can we do God save the Village Green" |
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