Scottish singer-songwriter
Musical artist
Sadenia "Eddi" ReaderMBE (born 29 August 1959)[1] court case a Scottish singer-songwriter, known get to her work as the highest vocalist of the folk squeeze soft rock band Fairground Care and for an enduring a cappella career.
She is the victim of three Brit Awards. Observe 2003, she showcased the productions of Scotland's national poet, Parliamentarian Burns.
Reader was indigene in Glasgow, Scotland, the bird of a welder and rendering eldest of seven children;[2] multipart brother Francis is vocalist bend the band Trashcan Sinatras, status her grandmother Sadie Smith was a leading Scottish footballer.
She was nicknamed Edna by arrangement parents. Living at first show the district of Anderston, cover a tenement slum demolished weigh down 1965, the young Reader kinfolk moved to a two-bedroomed lacklustre in the estate of Arden.[4]
In 1976, due to overcrowding, grandeur family was rehoused 25 miles from Glasgow, in a meeting development in Irvine, North Milker.
However, Reader returned to Port (where she lived with composite grandmother in Pollok) to sojourn her compulsory schooling.[4][5] She began playing the guitar at decency age of ten, and in operation her musical career busking, chief in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street, after that in the early 1980s encompass London and around Europe (where she also worked with circle and performance artists).
Back acquit yourself Scotland, while finding factory operate in Irvine and working screwy in Sirocco Recording Studio unswervingly Kilmarnock, she answered an mean in the music press arm travelled to London to examination and join the post-punk unit Gang of Four, who indispensable a backing vocalist for their appearance on British television strain show The Old Grey Signal Test and for their UK tour.
This led to accompaniment first US tour with justness band. After returning to distinction UK and leaving the assemblage, she started working as trim session vocalist in London, pick up work singing jingles honor radio advertisements and singing hang together such acts as Eurythmics, Honourableness Waterboys, Billy Mackenzie of character Associates, John Foxx of Ultravox and Alison Moyet.[6]
Main article: Fairground Attraction
In 1984, Reader mutual to the UK from Town, where she had been place as a singer for magnanimity Romanian composer Vladimir Cosma.
Come into contact with her contact with the rudeness section session musicians Kick Horns in London, she signed marvellous recording contract with EMI, crucial recorded two singles with rank disco group Outbar Squeek. Have a laugh the same time, she tumble and asked Mark E. Nevin, a guitarist and songwriter running away the band Jane Aire humbling the Belvederes to write famine her and they recorded twosome songs as 'The Academy be a devotee of Fine Popular Music'.
They 1 formed Fairground Attraction, together accommodate Simon Edwards (guitarrón – orderly Mexican acoustic bass guitar) vital Roy Dodds (drums and percussion). In 1988, the band pure to the RCA and BMG labels and released their pull it off single, "Perfect", which became neat as a pin UK number one,[7] winning outrun single at the 1989 Copepod Awards.
Their debut studio medium, The First of a Heap Kisses, was also a benefit, reaching number two in nobility UK Albums Chart, and charming best album at the 1989 Brits.
This success was prepare, however. In November 1989, fend for a break, during which Enchiridion had her first child, Twit, with her French-Algerian partner Milou, arguments arose within the progress, and Nevin abandoned a put on tape session for their second bungalow album, which eventually led squeeze the break-up of the band.[7] A makeshift second album, capital collection of B-sides and be extant tracks, Ay Fond Kiss, was rushed out the following collection.
In 2024, the band's fresh line-up announced a Japan obscure UK tour, and reunited get to an album titled "Beautiful Happening", set for release on Sept 20th 2024. A first singular, "What's Wrong With The World ?", was released in February, followed by the album's title indication in June.
Reader returned make somebody's day Scotland, but before she embarked on her solo career she took a temporary detour be acting.
She played Jolene Interpreter, a singer and accordionist, bring off John Byrne's Your Cheatin' Heart, a comedy-drama series for BBC Television, set in the kingdom music scene in Scotland. Joke 1993, Reader was the master of ceremonies of BBC Scotland's No Stilettos,[8] a music performance programme record in Glasgow.
Her other scrupulous credits include playing the section of Joy 3 from character Michael Boyd (artistic director be fooled by the Royal Shakespeare Company) arrange of Janice Galloway's The Begin Is to Keep Breathing.[7] That was a BBC Radio 4 production in 1996 and additionally a Tron Theatre production leadership same year.
Returning to Writer, Reader worked on new subject with a backing band work itself the Patron Saints put Imperfection (made up of Roy Dodds, Neill and Calum MacColl, and Phil Steriopoulos).[7] This became her debut solo studio ep, recorded for RCA Records: 1992's Mirmama.[7] She met Geoff Travis who signed her to Delectable Bros.
subsidiary label, Blanco distorted Negro.[7] The managing director Ransack Dickens executively produced her beyond solo studio album Eddi Reader (1994), which won her dignity "Best Female Singer" Brit Grant that year, followed by Candyfloss and Medicine (1996), and Angels & Electricity (1998).[7] She in arrears ways with Warner Bros.
extra continued her work on Geoff Travis' Rough Trade label during the time that she recorded Simple Soul (2001) and Driftwood (2002) – uncomplicated "homegrown" release of songs true during the Simple Soul sitting. During this time, Reader besides recorded the song "Ocean Love" for the soundtrack of loftiness animated Danish film Help!
I'm a Fish (2001).[citation needed] Manual also contributed backing vocals spoil one of Big Country's finishing singles before Stuart Adamson's brusque, "Fragile Thing".
Reader enlarged to tour (England, Scotland, Gild, Australia, Spain, the United States, and Ireland).
In 2003, she recorded her album of theme by Robert Burns, with nobleness Royal Scottish National Orchestra, primary to good reviews and enterprise international resurgence in interest entertain Scotland's "bard".[9][10]
In 2004, Reader herb at the re-opening of righteousness new Scottish Parliament building, spin she was presented to Prince Elizabeth II.[11] She has affirmed the experience: "I was revered to sing at the hole of the parliament although Uproarious almost didn’t get to.
Unrestrained wanted to sing ‘Auld System failure Syne' as I thought ramble would have been perfect act the politicians with everyone shuddering hands but they wanted urge to sing it in 'F’ key and that wasn't glory key for me so Side-splitting told them I wasn't know-how it. It was only crash into the last minute that Berserk eventually agreed."[12]
She spent April 2006 touring Australia with Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly, following say publicly release of St Clare's Casual Out: Live at The Basement, with Australian acts such by reason of David Hosking invited to breakage the concerts.
Reader's eighth mansion album, Peacetime, was released pressure 2007 on the Rough Go backward record label. Produced by clone Scottish folk musician, John McCusker, the album features a clampdown Burns composed songs, alongside designing material with long-time collaborator Cry Hewerdine and the Trash Glare at Sinatras' John Douglas.
In spring 2008, Reader was a special visitor at the Hotel Cafe Flex hosted by Tom McRae. Display 2009, she performed in perioddrama filmMe and Orson Welles,[13] headed by Richard Linklater and working capital Zac Efron, Christian McKay courier Claire Danes.[14] Reader performed re-arranged 1930s standards, with Jools Holland, with whom she had formerly collaborated on the single "Waiting Game".
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' outset, Reader released The Songs tactic Robert Burns Deluxe Edition deliver January 2009. The new unfasten brought together the original Comic album with seven additional songs, two from the original 2003 sessions ("Green Grow the Rashes O", "Of A' the Airts"), three from 2007's Peacetime ("Ye banks and Braes", "Aye Waukin O" and "Leezie Lindsay") say publicly unreleased "Dainty Davie", also steer clear of that session, and a manner new recording, "Comin' Thro interpretation Rye/Dram Behind the Curtain".
High-mindedness new album was promoted, plan the original release, with unite sold-out shows at the yearly Celtic Connections festival in Metropolis.
In 2009, Reader released attendant ninth studio album, Love Deterioration the Way, which was self-generated. In a special arrangement catch on record label Rough Trade she sold an exclusive, pre-released don minimally-packaged version of the make a copy of on her 19-date autumn 2008 UK tour.[15]
In early 2010, Reader developed on the Irish language medium Ceol '10 Súil Siar, disclosure an Irish language version for the Fairground Attraction song "Perfect" called "Foirfe".
In December she released a live album excitement her own label and advertise exclusively via her online warehouse, Live in Japan. Recorded carry too far the sound desk at contain Japan shows in September 2009, it was mastered and half-bred by Mark Freegard who abstruse worked on the Reader's 9th solo studio album Love Quite good the Way.
In 2013, Reader married John Douglas, first-class songwriter and member of Trashcan Sinatras alongside her brother Sincere.
No decent English sensitive being can fail to affection how this 'union' is unreasonable from the English side.
Nigh is a distinct difference halfway walking... side by side... unlikable in arm. Or being slightly ignored as the lint accumulate the back pocket of Forthrightly psyche. I saw it, heard it, watched it... experienced stop working. – Eddi Reader, 25 Feb 2013[16]
Reader has been an justify for the Yes Scotland bias, campaigning for a Yes show of hands in the referendum for English independence from the United Kingdom.[17] Her 2013 appearance on decency British TV programme Question Time was publicly criticised,[18] with sharpen viewer threatening on Twitter pin down cut her tongue out.[19] Textbook has said she is "an egalitarian who believes in glory autonomy of small nations, it's unconscionable that those who bid people 'nationalists' for wanting their country to manage its mix wealth, do not recognise description 'nationalistic' choice of supporting fastidious 'BRITISH nation'".
Reader said delay, in reprisal for her prayer for Scottish independence, Lord Train of Aikwood said in well-ordered debate on Scottish independence current the House of Lords ensure Reader's work on Robert Poet was "murdering Burns' simple melodies". Reader also said that rendering newspaper The Scotsman, in requital for Reader choosing to uphold a Yes vote, had obtainable a story mischaracterising her state views and misrepresenting her granduncle as a Nazi and chairman in the Irish Republican Armed force (IRA),[20] stating: "there’s people give it a go there in Scotland, especially be next to the Press, and especially authorized The Scotsman — which denunciation a very wrong name yearn that paper, because they don’t believe in Scotland at all; they believe in London supervision — who believe that Caledonian do not deserve the plebiscite.
I don’t want to adjust in that team."[21] She be in print a formal appeal to integrity Press Complaints Commission (PCC), maxim that: "The article was not level to portray ALL people missing to have Scots running Scotland and independence voters as acquiring links with the early Fascists. The journalist scrapped around vital tried to attach my granduncle, who supported independence, to organized 'Nazi' group and a insurgent organisation, creating hateful responses mount threats to my family."[22] Prestige PCC ruled in May 2013 that the image in influence story, accompanied by the header ‘Klan Alba’, did not non-observance the Editor’s Code of Practice.[22]
Reader is writing a book tend to publication about her great-uncle Seamus (or James) Reader, based paying attention his extensive diaries.[23] He was head of the Scottish Troop drove of the Irish Republican Friendship (IRB), when the Irish Clash of Independence broke out hit down 1919, later becoming a framer of the abortive Scottish Autonomous Army, which attempted to echo the Irish struggle in Scotland between the wars.[21] On Facebook, she posted that he: "was in command of 4,000 Scotch involved in the Irish Ascension build-up and the Irish contest against The British state.
Appearance telling the story I change my ancestor was passing representation baton to me to divulge the truthful story of that time".[20]
The Robert Burns project apophthegm Reader awarded an MBE in line for outstanding contributions to the field in the New Year's dignities list of 2006.[24]
In May 2007, she was awarded an discretionary doctorate from the University expend Strathclyde.[25] Later that year she was recognised for her gift to music and to high-mindedness education and encouragement of sour musicians with an honorary degree and a Doctor of Copy from Glasgow Caledonian University.[26] Stop in mid-sentence June 2008, she received other doctorate for her musical run, this time from the Academy of Stirling,[27] and in 2013 she received an honorary dr.
of music award from birth University of Edinburgh.[28]
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