One Crazy Week

I’d like to start this blog with a huge thanks to everyone for your support. I
cannot believe how well ‘Hour of Sunshine’ is doing on YouTube. I literally had
to pinch myself several times this week when I saw the number of views that it’s
had so far.

Aside from the video how can I not talk about Whitney Houston? It’s difficult to
imagine a world without Whitney and that voice. It’s a strange feeling to morn
a woman that I didn’t know; bizarre to think that a stranger could have such a
large part in my upbringing. I’ve literally been listening, watching and looking
up to Whitney for my entire life. With my hair in bunches I sang ‘Saving All My
Love for You’, I danced around the kitchen with my Mum to ‘I Wanna Dance With
Somebody’, cried over and over again to the Bodyguard, auditioned for Mystique
with ‘It’s Not Right But it’s ok’ sang ‘I believe in You and Me’ at my Brother’s
wedding and went to see her live for my 18th birthday present. She was an
incredible teacher; a close friend and I will forever miss never hearing or seeing
her soar again.

Rest well Whitney.

Much will and has been said about the loss of Music’s brightest stars, first
Michael then Amy and now Whitney. I have my own very strong feelings about
the huge drug and drink problems in my industry glamorized by the press and
the ‘cool’ people seemingly beyond the rules that govern the rest of us. Sex,
drugs, money, power, booze an exciting and tantalising promise of celebrity that
sucks in far too many. We love to watch them struggle, the bitter sweet turmoil
laced with god like talent, we love to watch them fall we love to watch them rise
never truly believing that there may come a time when they don’t get up. I’m
never one to judge we all have our problems our own personal cross to bare.
The story of Pandora’s box isn’t new and perhaps holds a very relevant message
to our ‘affluenza’ stricken society. All I will say is remember; what goes up must
and always does come down.

Hour of Sunshine Video is out this week :)

This week so far (a little Wednesday round-up) is going brilliantly well. My new video for Hour of sunshine has gone live yesterday and has already been picked up by the NME. It was great to do a video that introduces my band and the new ‘live’ Scarlette Fever sound. We worked with the fabulous Dani Jacobs who also directed ‘Elated’ for us. The inspiration for this video comes from the line ‘Your my daily hour of sunshine’. Rather than shooting a cliché boy meets girl narrative I wanted the theme of the video to be around light and a performance. All in all, the 21 hour day shooting in a cold warehouse 2 weeks ago yesterday was well worth it. I’m really pleased with the result and am really grateful to everyone involved over the last few weeks!

In the meantime, check out the video on the NME webiste and dont forget to leave a comment if you like it!!

(CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE NEW VIDEO)

Have a great week gang.

x

Introducing my new EP “The Great Expectations”

People today I’m very pleased to introduce you all to my new EP ‘The Great Expectations’.

I spent most of last year working on and off the road with my band. It was brilliant to play around with the songs and to experiment. So we took our favourite songs from the gigs and produced them live! Check out the behind the scenes video if you want a sneak peak.

Its a short 5 minute video where you can see the backing singers, the guys putting down strings and other sounds plus a sneak peak at the new sound this EP has to offer.

On a plus side (just about hanging on to my main new year’s resolution!!) I haven’t smoked for 16 days now!!! To celebrate I was looking through a few videos on youtube to send to a few recently reformed non-smoking friends and found this-do you remember these videos? SO SO funny!!

January so far……

So how’s it going gang?  I’m on day 8 as a non-smoker which is pretty good going.  I’m now over the worst of the nightmares (fingers crossed) and general feelings of sh**ness.  Hopefully, the only way is up!!!!  Aside from quitting the fags I took myself off for a much needed rest in Devon this weekend.  It was a gorgeous break; Stonehenge, Kent’s Caverns and a spa what more could a girl ask for?  Anyway breakfast to eat and tea to drink, have a good week guys.

New Year Resolutions, the journey begins!!!

Well what an end to December!!

We did a performance for Smooth FM supporting Caro Emerald at Band on the wall Manchester(picture below), two gigs supporting Roachford at the London Jazz Café and to top it off a trip to Harley Street. No I didn’t have liposuction or Botox incase you were wondering although it was tempting! I had to see a voice doctor to check out my vocal chords (thankfully I don’t have any serious damage/problems although I have been very worried).

Anyway where was I? It was a brilliant night in Manchester; Caro, the gang from Smooth and all the audience folk were so lovely and I even managed to pick up a Xmas Eeyore for Mum.

Supporting Roachford was as ever a privilege seeing him in action is very inspiring and to play at The Jazz café was definitely an experience that I hope to repeat.

The week before Xmas was crammed shopping with aisle fights over carrots with old ladies and a last minute Tax and VAT return-how exciting!! So what will head our way for 2012?

I may have been disgracefully slack in sticking to my resolutions over the years but this year I really mean it!!! Why you may ask? Well I have recently discovered that I’m nearly a stone heavier than my sister who has just had a baby and I’ve had a scare with my vocal chords. People a change is definitely gonna come…. No more booze (at least for now) and no more fags they have to gooooo! I’ll keep you posted gang and good luck in keeping your resolutions…..

Happy New Year!!

XXX

November has been an exciting month but busy as usual. Fresh from the Roachford tour which ended with an amazing gig in Edinburgh (I finally managed to take the Mary King’s Close tour). For those of you who didn’t make the Roachford tour there their are two additional London dates at the Jazz Cafe December 15/16. It’s a venue that I’ve been dying to play so I’m very excited. I had an amazing time supporting the Parlotones, the boys pulled in a large crowd to the Famous Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It’s the first time I have preformed there and it was a fantastic gig, incredible venue so beautiful (my dressing room even had a mirror)!!!!

Next in the diary is a Gig with Caro Emerald in Manchester which should be a good one, so expect to hear some of the stuff I’ve been working on in the studio. There will be more to look forward to in the new year.

On Tour…

Everybody I am in my 20’s. Yes, I can still go on a 18-30’s holiday, I can still date someone who’s 20 without a decade age gap and I’m a still a decade away from an increased risk of near vision loss. All of this is only true for one last day!!! Today in fact. Yes, tomorrow I am 30!!!!!!! I won’t deny that the impending ageing has been difficult to swallow but I have decided that in true Fever fashion to go skidding into my 30’s tonight in Manchester and make the most of grown up trick or treating as a 20 something (when I say trick or treating, in reality I only mean wearing a badge saying ‘it’s my birthday buy me a drink’).