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‘Come as a friend’ of lively trio


The Red Moon Club


CANADA’S most energetic and endearing folk trio the Red Moon Club play Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, on April 23. Displaying masterful story telling, haunting three-part harmonies, a mandolin, a ban- jo, a guitar, delay pedals and a beat-up bass drum, Red Moon Club present a lush and lively take on modern roots. Even if it’s your first time in


the audience, you come as a friend of this band. Doors 8.00pm, start 8.30pm.


Tickets £8.00 available on the door or from Ruth 07966 754366


Still in love with Lizzy


FROM PRS official awards, performing for Virgin Atlantic in Barbados and TV appear- ances (BBCTwo’s Arena among them) to being recruited to re- cord and tour by members of the original Thin Lizzy, Lime- house Lizzy enter their 21st year with their most explosive show and critically acclaimed line-up yet. Despite international tours


(Germany, USA and the Carib- bean, among others), corpo- rate clients (for example, Mit- subishi and NatWest) and even book appearances (The Rocker and Send In The Clones), they have shoehorned this, their third co-headline tour with tribute giants Livewire, into their usual exhausting year- round schedule. They play Cardiff Solus (0292 078 1458) tonight.


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NEWPORT:


released her single Never Let YouGo and chats to


AndyHowells


AT JUST 17 years old, Nina Jones is an ex- tremely talented teenage vocalist with a big future ahead of her. Based in Newport, her new single is the kind of accessible hit that can go a long way to establishing a new name in the music industry. ‘Never Let You Go’ is her latest release


with potential pop hit written all over it, following the recent trend of chart hits peppered with retro 90s touches. It’s a song about asking somebody to trust you in love, to let go emotionally and to fall completely for you. Andy Howells recently put questions to Newport’s rising star.


How did you get into singing? I started singing seriously about 12/13


years old. I had singing lessons from Charlotte Church’s singing teacher Lou- ise Ryan. She was very strict but taught me a lot. When I was about 10, I per- formed in ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ at The Wales Millennium Centre with Aled Jones and H from Steps. As well as pop music I love musical theatre and sang a lot of musical theatre stuff as a younger girl. I was in the final of ‘The UK Open Mic’ contest a few years back and was runner up in ‘The Star Of Stage’ contest two years ago. I got to meet Connie Fish- er through that who was great.


You’re based in Newport, tell us more about that. I live in Bassaleg, it’s a nice place. I go


to the Sixth form in Rougemont School where I’m doing my A-levels. I love New- port, it’s a great city.


How would you describe your music style? I originally started singing musical thea-


tre stuff when I was younger but I love all kinds of music. My current style for the single and my album “All Of Me” is a mixture of musical theatre but mostly pop, soul, a tad of R&B and maybe a tiny dash of funk.


Never Let You Go is your new single, can you tell us more about that? “Never Let You Go” is catchy and in-


fectious – soulful pop-funk. It follows the recent trend of chart hits peppered with retro 80s/90s touches. It’sabout asking somebody to trust you in love, let go emo- tionally and fall completely for you.


Newport’s Nina Jones recently


Friday, April 17, 2015 Follow us on Twitter @Argus_The Guide Meet The Artist : Nina Jones


You’ve collaborated with songwriters Darren Parry, Dan Curtis and Laura Curtis, how did that come about? “Never Let You Go” is written by award- winning songwriters Darren Parry, Dan Curtis and Laura Curtis. Darren has achieved UK Songwriting Contest Award wins, USA ‘Song Of The Year,’ USA ‘Bill- board’ and USA ‘Unisong’ awards. Mean- while, Dan and Laura Curtis have had songs recorded by Paul Potts, Broadway stars Ramin Karimloo and Lea Salonga and also wrote the successful, star-stud- ded charity track “A Miner’s Song.” I was singing a few songs at an album


launch party in Cafe Jazz, Cardiff, last year. Darren Parry was singing there too that night with the talented Rob Devereux on guitar. Darren approached me after the gig and said that his covers band (Sounds Familiar) were looking for a new female singer. He saidhe and Rob were very impressed with my voice so asked me if I’d be interested. A few months later I auditioned...and got in!


Band are back with an intimate concert


ICONIC hit Band of the 60s and 70s The Fortunes will bring their brand new music show to Cwm- bran’s Congress Theatre on Satur- day May 9 as part of their 2015 UK tour.


This intimate show will include


not only all The Fortunes fabulous hits, but anecdotes&stories drawn from the current line-ups many ex- periences over the years. While Bob Jackson was a mem-


ber of internationally acclaimed Beatles’ protégés, Badfingerwhose


hits included Without You and Come and Get It, Eddie Mooney toured as a member of Billy J Kramer’s backing band The Da- kotas.


Michael Smitham was the right- hand man with such legends as Del Shannon, Bobby Vee and Percy Sledge and Glenn Taylor was also a time served member of Marmalade and Love Affair. Visit congresstheatrecwmbran. co.uk for tickets and information.


MUSICAL MEMORIES: The Fortunes


MAKING MUSIC: Newport’s Nina Jones INSET: Nina’s new single Darren later told me he had ‘the perfect’


original song for me; he played it for me on the keyboard at my house and I loved it so I decided to record it. Darren pro- duced the track for me and did a great job. We recorded the song at Shabbey Road Studios (with the great Al Steele as engineer) and Rob Devereux on guitar. I hope the public like it as much as I do.


Have you got any live appearances lined up? Yeah, lots coming up. The next gig you


can find me performing at is with Sounds Familiar on April 17, at Pontypridd RFC. All other appearances will be posted on facebook.com/ninajonesmusic.


Who are your musical influences? I’m very much inspired by the music of


Adele and Sam Smith. On my debut al- bum I’ve done a cover of “One and Only” by Adele. I also love John Legend – there is a cover of “All Of Me” on there too (you can check out my Soundcloud for these


tracks: soundcloud.com/ninajonesmu- sic). Carrie Underwood is a favourite of mine.


What are you listening to at the moment? Sam Smith and Adele mostly but always learning new songs for the band. We just learned “Happy” by Pharrell, he’s cool too!


Where can people hear your music? At facebook.com/ninajonesmusic, twit-


ter.com/ninajonesmusic and soundcloud. com/ninajonesmusic. I’m also on iTunes, Amazon, Google


Play and Spotify. The video for the song “Never Let You


Go” has just been finished and can be seen on my Facebook page and on You- tube. A talented guy called Rob Reed filmed the video and the great Al Steele and Ceri Darknell of Shabbey Road Stu- dio directed/edited it. I love it! I think the video is funky and fresh.


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