Sandi Thom
Tomorrow (Friday), 7.30pm
Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston
Tickets £18.50
Box office 01206 363108
For a while most people still recalled her as the precocious next-generation talent that produced one of the defining hits of the internet age, I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair), this talented singer-songwriter has come a long way in the years since then.
As Sandi now says: “The strange thing about having the kind of success I had, people think they know you. In fact, people don’t know me at all.”
That is all about to change, however, with the release of Sandi’s superb new album, Flesh and Blood.
Recorded at Nashville’s legendary 16 Tons studio, with celebrated Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson in the production hot seat, the fourth Sandi Thom album is, she says: “The first album I’ve made that is really all about me.”
A self-described “obsessive Fleetwood Mac fan”, they are also a strand in Sandi’s new sound: the strong-minded female with the oh-so vulnerable heart.
A statement that is itself a metaphor for the journey Sandi Thom has been on since going to No.1 in seven countries with her very first single, ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker’ and multi-million selling album, Smile… It Confuses People.
Part of the same generational influx that saw other major artists like the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen find their way to the top of the charts via the internet, Sandi’s career has transcended her pixelated beginnings to the point where she now fronts her own record label, Guardian Angels, and calls the shots on every aspect of her career. Now the media spotlight has moved on to blind other unsuspecting victims, the truth can finally be given a good, proper airing.
Behind the hype there is simply that voice. Heartfelt, soulful, sincere… Sandi Thom is not who you think she is.
