Passenger - Alisha and the diamonds - Tilly lewis
2016 GIG Guide Jamie Cian Martin The next biggest thing
Up and coming indie producer
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Susana Mariz
The new album
The Hidden world
the best venues in town
Festival Vibes
The best festivals this year
Vinyl Return Reading Festival
The vinyls you must have
win tickets and get info
Contents
May 2016 issue 204
45 | RIDGE
On the cover
“It was the worst prank anyone could pull”
3 | SUSANA
MARIZ
News from the new album
17 | CIAN MARTIN Up and coming indie producer
14 | JAMIE
The next biggest thing
21 | THE HIDDEN
WORLD
Up and coming indie producer
31 | FESTIVAL
VIBES
The best festivals this year
12 | VINYL
RETURN
The vinyls you must have
25 | READING
FESTIVAL
Win tickets and get information
27| 2016 GIG GUIDE
View all the events next year
41| JAMIE
79| ALISHA
Act to watch out for
Free events this week
18 |PETER KHOO
PETER KHOO |9
“Folk indie hybrid unlike anything before”
6 |ALISHA AND
THE DIAMONDS
The next Florence and the machine is simply gorgeous
7 |MONTGOMARY
The present day Johnny Cash, but how can he be related to him?
Rock the Barfly with folk singing great
TILLY LEWIS|8
Emjoy the Apple Tree sweets
VOY VANCE|5
Get cosy in London’s The Nest with calm guitar music
MONTGOMARY|4
Camden lock
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Reviews 51| IAN BROWN Music of the spheres
52|Oasis Definitely Maybe
53|Coldplay Parachutes
54|Ryan
Adams 1989
55|The streets A grand don’t come for free
56|Ed Sheeran X
57|Passenger All the little lights
MONTGOMARY|7
“I grew up listening to legends like The Beatles”
Our unknown albums 16|CAT TRAP
“Bonfire is an album any grunge fan would enjoy”
15|TIDDLE
Sienna is the winter feel good album you must hear
13 |JOELLA
Demon Days
Every week
Fashion world 82|MAIL this week 83|SUBSCRIPTIONS
84|CROSSWORD DELEVINGE|19 Stunning winder coat speicalists 85|TICKETS TO WIN from Burberry
UNCHARTED|46 The simple look from Topman
PIXEL|32
Melbourne shows her roots
The essentials you need froom River Island
French tides is simply beautiful
How Camden Market can make you
11 |VAL THORN
58|Gorillaz
DAM|8
Susana Mariz
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ot only did Susana's The Night shatter the record for most albums sold in the UK. In a single week, it also exceeded all estimations and expectations as the LP tallied a colossal total of 3.38 million copies in its debut week. Susana's The Night became only the second album to sell over 2 million copies in its first week – joining previous record holder N'Sync's No Strings Attached, which moved 2.42 million copies in its first week of sales in March 2000 – and the first album ever to exceed 3 million in sales in one week, Billboard reports. After just seven days of availability, The Night is already the U.K.'s highestselling album of 2015, nearly doubling the 1.8 million copies of Taylor Swift's 1989 had accrued in the first 11 months of the year. Susana's latest is also just the 20th album to put up
platinum numbers – over a million copies sold – in its first week of sales since Nielsen started keeping track in 1991. With The Night's massive week, Susana's catalogue is now responsible for the top-selling album in three of the past five years: Lock was her bestselling album in her career back in 2012, but could propel her into the spotlight, still doing mediocre gigs touring with snow Patrol trying to get rich, Susana Mariz pushed her way to fame from living in a two bedroom house in Eastcote as a child, claiming her success on her mum teaching her “never to give up and to always stay strong”, she later went on to tell us that without the support of her family she would have never have carried on, and her loyal fans for going to her small pub gigs being with her all the way.
Lock has sold over 2000 copies since its release in 2011, and if The Night keeps its current sales trajectory, it will be the favourite to be the highestselling LP of 2016 as well, especially if the singer continues to keep it off of streaming services like Google Music and Spotify. The Night didn't just break sales records in the U.K.: In Susana's native Portugal, The Night put up the biggest selling opening week in the history of the Official Charts Company, ousting Oasis' Be Here Now. Susana's latest sold over 800,000 copies in Portugal. – toppling Be Here Now's opening week of 696,00 in 1997 – and, with over The Night’s 10,000 digital purchases of the LP, quickly racked the most downloads ever in an opening week in the history of the Portuguese charts for indie artists, Billboard The Night will undoubtedly writes. hold the crown of 2015's On the British album bestseller when the charts, Susana Mariz's The calendar turns. Night, which easily placed
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Number One, sold more than the albums slotted at Number Two through Number 87 combined. Expect similar domination stateside when the complete Billboard 200 rankings are announced early next week. After talking to Susana we found out how much she loves her fans and family, as her large portuguese family were her fans. Susana has recently been involved with pranking fans in a viral video
showing Mariz dress up at a look alike of Susana Mariz competition and mess around trolling fans, then surprising them with a small private performance of her hit song “Stay here” which brought fans into tears after they realised who her voice was. Susana went on to say “ I love meeting fans, chilling with fans and singing with fans. I love to make people smile and I know that 5 minutes of my time will mean the world to them, its the least I can do for these people that made me what I am.” Susana Mariz before her newest album went into hiding, writing and perfecting a perfect album, effort like this explains why each and every song has its own meaning, story and life lesson, susana claims: “I take long breaks simply to live my life, to have bad and good stories to tell, each and every song has deep meaning to me” Well we can see why this album will rocket to number 1 globally in the upcomming weeks, a perfect, beautiful album that is practically flawless.
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Susana’s latest is also just the 20th album to put up platinum numbers – over a million copies sold – in its first week of sales since Nielsen started keeping track in 1991. With The Night’s massive week, Susana’s catalogue is now responsible for the top-selling album in three of the past five years: Lock was her bestselling album in her career back in 2012, but could propel her into the spotlight, still doing mediocre gigs touring with snow Patrol trying to get rich, Susana Mariz pushed her way to fame from living
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her small pub gigs being with her all the way.
The Night will undoubtedly hold the crown of 2015’s bestseller when the calendar turns. The Night will undoubtedly hold the crown of 2015’s bestseller when the calendar turns. The Night will undoubtedly hold the crown of 2015’s bestseller when the calendar turns. The Night will undoubtedly hold the crown of 2015’s bestseller when the calendar turns.
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