My Love for Sia

Picture the scene its Oct 2008 a Sunday night around 8.30 my neighbour and I were doing our usual in heading over to the local pub for a glass of wine and some jazz. My neighbours are both heavily in to music and make many great recommendations for my CD collection. They also play in several bands a miox of rock and funky jazz. Anyway this Sunday evening we were en route to see my neighbours' husband and his jazz quartet. Whilst walking the short distance to the pub (quite literally across the road) my neighbour was explaining how she had been catching up on old Jools Holland episodes and had seen a great female vocalist whom she looked up online and subsequently found that she was playing in Glasgow's the Arches that very evening. So we stop mid route and indecision takes over, do we go on a wild goose chase into the city to try to get a ticket or do we proceed as normal? Being slightly more technically aux fait than my neighbour, I fish out my mobile and try to get details of the gig and find out if there are still tickets available. Thus the decision was made, my neighbour seeing that I was keen enough to investigate decided to jump in her car and just turn up, worse case we would be back at our local in half an hour no harm done.
So we turn up at the Arches dutifully pay the required ticket price and in we go, neither of us really knowing what to expect. What then followed was one of the best gigs I have ever been to. I had no idea who Sia was or what she had done, but I loved it from the very moment that she took the stage in her UV reflective suit! Obviously as the show reached its climax I recognised zero 7's Destiny and the penny finally dropped.

So we made last orders at the local and were literally buzzing with excitement for the gig. The following day both of us were deperate to get our hands on 'Some People Have Real Problems' and independently accessed Sia's website to post her a message saying how much we had enjoyed the gig. Something neither of us had ever done previously!
From the first play of 'Some People Have Real Problems' I was absolutely hooked and listened to it continuously in the car and home for months. I know absolutely every bar and word but still get enormous enjoyment out of listening to the album again and again. 'Colour the Small One' is also fantastic but slightly more melancholy on the whole than 'SPHRP' which contains a heady mix of fabulous vocals, haunting melodies, dancey pop and quirkiness. 'CTSO' had some recognisable tunes from adverts and American dramas such as Grey's Anatomy.
I thoroughly recommend that you at least give 'Some People Have Real Problems' one play or at the very least check out some of Sia Furlers stuff on webites like YouTube and Spotify, please, you'll thank me when you too are in love!