23.11.12 Music Week 9
ON THE RADAR NINA NESBITT
Edinburgh-born Nina Nesbitt has already toured with Ed Sheeran and Example, written her debut album and signed on the dotted line to Island Records - and all by the tender age of 18. Now, fresh from playing her sec-
ond UK headlining tour and in sup- port of debut single and EP Boy, she’s recording and co-producing her first album with Jake Gosling. “The album is going to be a mix-
ture of upbeat catchy songs and piano ballads,” she tells Music Week. “The theme’s breaking up and growing up and just personal experiences that I’ve had over the past three years.
“There’s a lot of singer-songwrit-
ers out there doing the folk thing and I just wanted to do something a bit different. I love rock, pop and acoustic genres so I kind of took influences from all of those.” The young singer grew up listen-
ing to Nirvana, Eva Cassidy and Joni Mitchell and describes her sound as “a mixture of folk pop with electronic beats to it”. “I get a lot of comparisons to
Ellie Goulding, Laura Marling, Kate Nash and Ed Sheeran as well - it’s kind of somewhere in the middle of all of that,” she says. Attention started to gather at the end of 2011, when her EP Live
HE SAID / SHE SAID “
Take - released independently - caught the attention of BBC Introducing, and in April her second EP, The Apple Tree, shot in to the iTunes Top 10, peaking at No.6. After turning down numerous
record deals, Nesbitt finally decid- ed to sign with Island in June. “I just wanted to have a little bit
of success independently to show that I had a fanbase and that I could have more creative control over what I was doing.” As for the future, a collaboration
with Bruno Mars could be on the cards... “I think he’s really cool, I think his songs are great and as a
ESSENTIAL INFO
RELEASES December 2011 Live Take EP April 2012 The Apple Tree EP October 22 Single: Boy February 2013 Single: TBC Q2 2013 Album: TBC LABEL Island Records MANAGEMENT VDM Music, Vicky Dowdall LIVE Nov 25 Songbird Festival, Rotterdam Nov 27–30 Rizzle Kicks support slot for three Scotland dates
performer he’s just really tight.” For now though, the focus is on UK domination before setting her sights Stateside. Nesbitt says: “At the moment we’re keeping it UK
TAKE A BOW TEAM JLS It will take
200 song listens before you make the same amount of money [as a download]
Spotify founder Daniel Ek discusses artist royalties with
QZ.com, claiming that consumption behaviour is very different for each music model
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and Europe. It would just be an absolute dream to go over to America and tour. Next year we’re going to start looking at US and other countries...”
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