Siobhan Donaghy - Overrated!

She was encouraged, too, by CMO management (Blur, Morcheeba) who were sent a five-track demo and signed her up immediately. "They were so different to my old management," she notes, "I was told I had a say in what I did. And I'd never had that. I thought 'I'll stick with these boys!'"

This year, Siobhan and her band may play the New Band Tent at Glastonbury. If not, she'll be there anyway, staggering round the ditches with the mortals. "I never wanted to be famous anyway," she says, "and this isn't that kind of record. Our whole thing was 'let's just make music that we wanna listen to'. And you start off from there. Make music you like, music you think other people will like, do things that you like and keep it simple. In the Sugababes it was all so complicated. And there's no need. My sister's a make-up artist and I was never allowed to use her. Now she's my make-up artist. Great! Keep it in the family, have everyone as your mate, sweet."

Overrated is the debut single to be released by ex-Sugababe Siobhan Donaghy. Co-written by Siobhan and produced by Cameron Mc Vey, Overrated is set for release on June 16th.

The enormously atmospheric Overrated is the first single to be taken from Siobhan’s debut album (due out September 2003) and her first new material since her departure from the Sugababes in the autumn of 2001.

Siobhan Donaghy is 18 years old and already a pop veteran. After three and half years with the Sugababes, 11 months of which brought genuine Pop Fame, these days she's doing things the old-fashioned way; a live vocalist, with a live band, who tours in a transit van (for now). "I'm definitely good at roughing it," she grins, "I'm turning into a scummy bitch!"

"There's room for music to be a lot more interesting than the teen stuff that's out there. I wanna play live, do interesting videos, we've got great tunes and a couple of them have even have a point. I'm not ashamed to say at the moment I am only listening to my album. Hahaha!"

Overrated is released through WEA on June 16th

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