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ON THE RADAR NATALIE DUNCAN
“IT WAS ALL A MASSIVE FLUKE basically,” says Natalie Duncan. After working as a barmaid for four years and gigging in pubs in her home town of Nottingham, she won a competition to appear on BBC Two series Goldie’s Band: By Royal Appointment, which ended with a performance at Buckingham Palace. The talented vocalist was spot-
ted by someone from Decca who was in the audience that night. Fast forward to the present and she’s signed to the label with debut album Devil In Me set for release. Speaking to Music Week
Duncan admits: “I’m not saying I knew I was going to make it but
something that wasn’t even con- scious inside knew that probably, eventually, hopefully, I’d end up doing something musical.” Her vocals are inspired by
Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan, plus “Leonard Cohen and Jimi Hendrix for songwriting”. Duncan’s been writing songs ever since she can remember. “I used to just write on the piano,” she says. “When I was three I got my first Casio keyboard and I wrote three- chords on it and I repeated them like… oh it was annoying!” Usually confined to her bed-
room, a two-year music perform- ance course at college finally gave
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“ David Hepworth announces the sad closure of The Word magazine ”
HITWISE Primary Ticketing Chart
POS PREV EVENT 1 1 T4 ON THE BEACH 2 10 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 3 NEW RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 4 2 PALOMA FAITH 5 5 ED SHEERAN 6 16 V FESTIVAL 7 12 STONE ROSES 8 NEW TOM JONES 9 9 MADNESS 10 NEW BON IVER 11 4 JESSIE J 12 6 WATCH THE THRONE 13 NEW JAY Z 14 17 OLLY MURS 15 11 ONE DIRECTION 16 20 T IN THE PARK 17 NEW LADY GAGA 18 NEW PEARL JAM 19 3 COLDPLAY 20 13 SECRET GARDEN PARTY
VIAGOGO Secondary Ticketing Chart
POS EVENT 1 THE STONE ROSES 2 MADONNA 3 NICKI MINAJ 4 ED SHEERAN 5 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA 6 ONE DIRECTION 7 MUSE 8 BLINK 182 9 LADY GAGA 10 BEN HOWARD 11 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 12 STEREOPHONICS 13 QUEEN 14 JESSIE J 15 BEACH BOYS 16 ROBERT PLANT 17 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM 18 MORRISSEY 19 FRANKIE VALLI 20 EMELI SANDE
When we came
Duncan the courage to play in pub- lic: “I remember doing the first song I’d ever written in front of a crowd at college and after that I released it... it was all right I started doing open mic nights”. Describing her album as “bluesy
and soulful”, it’s written about her personal experiences. “I wouldn't say it’s the most upbeat and happy album, there’s loads of ups and downs, but then it does have light moments. I think each song is indi- vidually about something I’ve been through.” Now writing with Magnetic Man for their next album, as well as featuring on Goldie’s lat- est hit, Freedom, she’s keen to
ESSENTIAL INFO
RELEASES July 16 album - Devil In Me (singles TBC) LABEL Caroline Crick, Verve MANAGEMENT Kathryn Nash, Eccentric LIVE July 6 - Farmyard Notts Contemporary July 8 - Broken Folk, Battersea Mess July 12 - O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire July 21 - Wollaton Park, Nottingham August 7 - Cargo, London
carry on collaborating: “I’d hate to just be stuck in a writing my own songs and singing hole because eventually I’d like to be able to do loads of things musically like writing for films.” Following a one-track perform-
ance at Lovebox, Duncan has a few live dates lined up and there’s talk of a tour after the album release. As for the future, she just wants
to keep going: “I don’t really ever stop writing, I hope it all just carries on.”
TAKE A BOW TEAM GARY BARLOW & THE CB Label: Decca
President: Dickon Stainer
A&R: Tom Lewis, Decca
THE LOWDOWN
Album: Sing Highest chart position: No.1
MUST-SEE MUSIC TICKETING CHARTS
TIXDAQ Primary Ticketing Chart
POS PREV EVENT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
3 7 4 5 6
ONE DIRECTION LADY GAGA OLLY MURS ED SHEERAN MADNESS
10 JESSIE J NEW MUSE 9
LIONEL RICHIE 13 EMELI SANDE
10 15 NOEL GALLAGHER 11 8
NICKI MINAJ
12 NEW EXAMPLE 13 14 V FESTIVAL 14 11 STONE ROSES 15 16 MADONNA 16 NEW CHERYL COLE 17 18 GEORGE MICHAEL 18 20 NICKELBACK 19 NEW JENNIFER LOPEZ 20 NEW READING FESTIVAL
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