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Self-described “grubby-indie-pop” artisan Lauren Deakin Davies, accepted musically as DIDI, has absolutely had a animated but acknowledged few months accepting aloof won the NMG ‘Producer Of The Year’ Award, bearing a absorbing scattering of assignment over the aftermost few years, including alive sessions with The Hoosiers and accepting taken allotment in the creations of albums with several artists too.
Not alone does she comedy a accessible duke in the conception of added artists music, but she additionally produces and makes her own music too, her latest distinct actuality “Back Off” which was appear in August with the advice of Rhiannon Mair, who produced the song and played drums on it too.
“Back Off” is a clear, catchy, guitar heavy, adventurous account accounting about a bearings that she begin herself in on a alternation (read below), with a angry pop-punk complete that is actual unique. The song is accelerated and loud, and you accept no added advantage than to apprehend every chat that she is adage about the chains of women, delivered with acrimony and guts.
Playing in bands back the age of 10, DIDI absitively to bead out of apprenticeship at the age of 17 to absolutely address herself to music abounding time, absorption on the assembly ancillary of things. She fed her charge to accomplish by actuality a bout affair guitarist for a cardinal of acts that she was bearing for, at the time.
But that wasn’t consistently the plan from the start. “I had consistently capital to be a apprentice designer, an artisan of robots who would accomplish people’s lives, decidedly those with disabilities, that little bit easier. I acclimated to draw designs, they are amusing to attending at now, accompanying with my dyslexia, labeling the assorted elements and functions, they were appealing rudimental”.
Aside from the apprentice authoritative ambitions, DIDI enjoyed authoritative things out of copse and arena the guitar as a child, but due to her missing assorted music lessons, she appealing abundant accomplished herself how to comedy and absitively this was the best way to alpha up a band. “I absolutely didn’t like accomplishing covers of songs, so I started to address my own music to comedy for my band. I would address the melody line, the guitar allotment and the lyrics to booty to bandage convenance for anybody abroad to again develop”.
After actuality in a bandage with four boys, she absitively it was time for a change and at the age of 14, she absitively to alpha up a babe bandage with an indie/folk sound, administration the song autograph and actuality rather successful, accepting radio plays and appearance in bounded affidavit and magazines.
“The bandage up acquired and concluded up as a pop duo alleged ‘Delora’ by the time I was 20 years old. At this stage, I had been accomplishing assembly for a few years and I was so admiring back bristles of the albums, produced by me, got advised in Sunday Times Culture Magazine, as able-bodied as added broadsheet affidavit and magazines giving them attention”, so it absolutely is no abruptness that her alone music is accepting such a success with her absorbing accomplishments and experiences, but now it is time to focus on herself as an artist.
“In March of this year, I wrote a song ‘Sorry’ which was so me and my sound, not accounting for anyone else, which had a absolutely amazing acknowledgment back I put it out there, arch me to absolution it officially. I capital it to be article so honest and accurate and if bodies didn’t like it, that was fine… but they did!! Gigslutz premiered the video for it, the Revue in Canada capital to arch the Soundcloud absolution and anybody was aloof absolutely adulatory of it”.
Having had such a absolute response, this spurred her on to base “Awkward”, a cocky produced and appear distinct about a ages afterwards and now, she has appear her latest distinct “Back Off” which has additionally had a absolutely admiring response, dispatch her on to address an EP, which we should hopefully get to apprehend this year. “I alone went abandoned about 7 months ago and this has all been such a absolute cyclone so far, it’s all accident so quickly, but it’s actual exciting!”
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Writing and recording in her own studio, accepted as ‘The Den’, she focuses her lyrics on absolutely claimed adventures or contest that may accept afflicted her. “Back Off” for archetype was accounting afterwards she witnessed an calumniating bearings on a alternation from an ever advancing man who was dissing this accurate females apprenticeship and chase and aloof acquainted the charge to address a song about it. “I absorption ‘Back Off’ as the big sister to my antecedent distinct ‘Awkward’ as it has a agnate affair but ‘Back Off’ aloof had a lot added audacity and acrimony in it”.
DIDI is absolutely not abbreviate of absolute absorption and acknowledgment and has had lots of amazing abutment throughout her career. She was called for the Girls I Rate accident and had a song called as allotment of their 20 best songs, alongside artists like Lily Allen and Carla Marie Williams. “Awkward” was featured in DIVA annual and was accurate through BBC Radio 6 music, and not to acknowledgment her latest NMG Award.
She is absolutely a huge afflatus and archetype to anyone who wants to booty on a abandoned music career and address aggregate they accept to music, whether that be the production, songwriting, gigging – DIDI does it all! “I’ve aloof done what has consistently acquainted appropriate and gone advanced and approved to do aggregate to the best of my ability” so analysis her out.
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Words by Mia Woloszczynska
