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London-based singer earns £1m deal through webcam gigs
Posted: 04 Apr '06, 11:42
London-based singer Sandi Thom has landed herself a £1m five-album deal with RCA/Sony BMG after performing for fans worldwide over a webcam.
The unknown artist (and her band) attracted some 200,000 viewers to her internet shows, held nightly at her basement flat in Tooting. Her three-week series, Twenty One Nights From Tooting, initially attracted 70 viewers, but by two weeks in that figure swelled to 182,000.
Thom, 24, said: "It's been a whirlwind. We never realised we'd be in this position just a few weeks after deciding to stick a webcam in the basement. We were basically too poor to tour. We brought in so little money thrashing up and down the country in my car - which is a total heap.
"It was so expensive playing to 200 people a night. We thought 'Surely there must be another way?'"
RCA's Craig Logan said: "Sandi is a very talented artist with an already unique story. We're very excited that we're now going to be a part of that story as she develops into a major artist.'"
Thom's first album, Smile, It Confuses People, is out on June 5th.
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i'm getting bored of these internet fanbased people now...
it's sooo last year
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Bollocks
It's a weird type of hype that tries to present the artist in an entirely false way.
Her album was recorded before RCA took an interest; she was signned to Legacy Records. She had a single out last year, has been on the radio several times, studied at Paul McCartney's Institute For Performing Arts and has done more gigs than most "unsigned" artists.
RCA are trying to con an assumed but probably spurious demographic who revel in the "unknwown" artsist.
Plus, a million-pound five-album deal is only 200,000 per album; after all the rip-off expenses Ms. Thom won't have much money left.
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wut?
theyre going from too poor to tour to having the album out in 2 months?
ummmmmm artic monkeys-esque "wow internet grass roots support" hype scam?-
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Is she the one who was on TOTP the other night doing that Anti-war song?
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Dunno
But I'd never heard of her before today.
Which is weird for someone with a big internet fanbase. You'd think someone on here would give her a mention.-
she's probably bland as bland as bland.
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and
she says it was expensive playing to 200 people a night?! Thats a fucking stadium crowd compared to normal unsigned attendance. Whayayaughta.....
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Hmmm
I cant believe she was complaining about playing to 200 people a night when touring!
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I dream...
of such attendances.
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My thoughts...
Exactly!
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Craig Logan you say??
is this the same craig logan that 'played bass' for Bros ??
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i think...
this is bollocks.
i think this is a cover story for what was actually very big drawn out recruitment drive to find another artist to rival some of the up and coming female singer singwriters, like that knobhead KT tunstall.
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she sounds
exactly like that knobhead KT tunstall.
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She was on...
...BBC news a few weeks ago talking about how her popularity's grown.
RCA got an album out of her fast enough, like.
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yes
he's the managing director of rca now.
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ugh
what an extremely annoying smart-arse album title
i have already made several assumptions about her personality
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well there you go
proof that the cream always rises to the top
or something
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i hear...
that they are working on a rival for pete doherty at the BMG labs.
except he's addicted eggs.
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fuck sake
positive history is made in which talented people can gain a fanbase. giving anyone the chance to make something of themselves and all we here from you people is negativity? seriously wtf have u got against the world? lighten up... stop trying to see the fucking negative in every situation/ article unless it mentions mcklusky or 65daysofstatic.
i thought this news was cool. must check out her stuff.
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well
why don't you just marry her then
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That
made me laugh...
I just clicked on her website where apparently her signing was webcast too. I don't like it.
Lyrics bad. "I wish I was a punkrocker, with a flowers in my hair"
GADS-
seems a little fishy
to me.
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Wow.......
DiS editors read the metro on the way to work. Tell me you didn't find it in there? You're at the forefront now!
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ha ha ha
I bet 'echoproject' is one of the blood sucking pr cunts paid to hype that shit.
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the internet is dead
i'm releasing my debut album on donkey. it will sing a song every time you throw a rock at its head. then i'm going on an exclusive barnyard tour of the UK, playing only to filthy filthy animals. then i'm going to sign a massive record deal and move to devon to live in a trough of shit with my two million pounds.
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bah
I'm not even going to release an album or write any music or play any instrument ever. That's how future I am.
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Excellent!
Sheep are such good listeners. Can I come too?
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this pisses me off so much...
she was on the radio today saying that she basically couldnt be arsed to tour, and she gets a £1million deal?!?!?!? There are bands and artists in this country with more talent in a single folical of hair than she has in her entire body, and have to work their asses off, losing money every night just to get their music heard. The music industry is such a cunt.
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no it isn't
It's just a business.
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Also
What's wrong with her forehead?
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