08.06.12 MusicWeek 9
ON THE RADAR VANQUISH
Plugging away on a school tour in the day and supporting Westlife on their Farewell Tour of UK and Ireland at night; girl band Vanquish are relentless in their pursuit of success and they know they’ve got to work hard to get it. “We’re trying to fit as much in as possible,” band member Holly Davis tells Music Week. “We don’t like getting an
evening off, we just love it so much. Supporting Westlife is such a huge honour, none of us can believe it. It’s still sinking in.
“It’s such an amazing opportu-
nity, we’re having such a good time. I think we’re doing 29 dates on the tour in total.”
On Vanquish’s sound, Davis
explained: “We’ve been together a couple of years and spent that time trying to find our sound. We’ve been working with some amazing leading pop writers, so that sort of defines our music – pop with an edge. It’s energetic and makes us want to get up and dance.” The bubbly and bright female
four-piece - who were put together by independent label Non Stop via open auditions - have been paired with the likes of Ivor Novello win- ning Jorgen Elofsson (Britney Spears), Wayne Hector (JLS) and Rob Davis (Kylie) to write their material. Elofsson penned their debut single The Harder You Love
HE SAID / SHE SAID “ I wish Jay
Marciano, Klaus- Peter Schulenberg and their teams as much success and pleasure as we have enjoyed
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POS PREV EVENT
1 3 COLDPLAY 2 1 JESSIE J 3 6 ELTON JOHN 4 NEW STEREOPHONICS 5 4 MADNESS 6 NEW TOM JONES 7 15 JUSTIN BIEBER 8 NEW FIELD DAY 9 NEW T4 ON THE BEACH 10 11 V FESTIVAL 11 NEW MUMFORD & SONS 12 14 STEPS 13 NEW RUSSELL WATSON 14 18 BEN HOWARD 15 7 ONE DIRECTION 16 NEW NICKLEBACK 17 13 SECRET GARDEN PARTY 18 NEW CAPITAL SUMMERTIME BALL 19 18 OLLY MURS 20 10 ED SHEERAN
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POS EVENT
1 COLDPLAY 2 WESTLIFE 3 JESSIE J 4 JAY-Z 5 ONE DIRECTION 6 BLINK 182 7 MADONNA 8 THE STONE ROSES 9 GUNS N' ROSES 10 DAVID GUETTA 11 LADY GAGA 12 BEN HOWARD 13 KEANE 14 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 15 JENNIFER LOPEZ 16 NICKI MINAJ 17 ED SHEERAN 18 AVICII 19 MUMFORD & SONS 20 OLLY MURS
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POS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
PREV 1 2 5 4 6 9 3
EVENT
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10 KEANE NEW JAMES MORRISON
10 13 MADONNA 11 NEW DAVID GUETTA 12 12 V FESTIVAL 13 NEW HAPPY MONDAYS 14 8
15 NEW JENNIFER LOPEZ 16 7
WESTLIFE
17 15 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 18 14 GEORGE MICHAEL 19 NEW SNOW PATROL 20 NEW HARD ROCK CALLING
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which will be fol- lowed by a second single and album. “We’re sort of
halfway through the album,” revealed Davis. “We’re lucky we’ve got a lot of good writers so hopefully we’ll have an album out by the end of the year. We’ve got a second single coming out September time and that’s even better than the first song so watch out for that.” She also revealed international
plans for the group: “We’ll probably go over to Sweden with Jorgen as he’s written a lot of tracks.
ESSENTIAL INFO
LABEL & MANAGEMENT Non Stop Records DISCOGRAPHY May 20: debut single The Harder You Love August: second single Machine Autumn: debut album LIVE
Hopefully we’ll get our songs out in Europe and it’d be nice eventually to crack America but we’ll try for England first and see what hap- pens. You never know…” The Vanquish crew are proud of
their achievements so far but con- tinue to strive for more “Ideally we’d love a No.1 in the future,” admits Davis. “Realistically, to be in
Until June 19:Westlife tour support Gay Pride, Birmingham Continuous PA tour Until summer holiday: Schools tour Regional summer festivals including Penn Festival, High Wycombe & Dagenham & Barking Summer Festival
the Top 10 would be brilliant. Eventually we’d love to headline our own tour – these are massive dreams but we’re going to think about doing that anyway.”
TAKE A BOW TEAM DAVID GUETTA
Label: Positiva / Virgin
Managers: Jean Charles Carre and Caroline Prothero
Marketing: Carole MacDonald & Olly Rice, EMI Music
THE LOWDOWN
Album: Nothing But The Beat Highest chart position: No.2
National press: Paul Guimaraes, EMI Music
Regional press: Fleur Gilbert, APB
Online press: Richard Onslow, EMI Music
National radio: Tina Skinner, EMI Music
Regional radio: Jason Bailey / Martin Finn, EMI Music
TV: Vic Gratton / Rob Clark, EMI Music
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