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Sunday Girl – Stop Hey

• 28th Oct 2010

We're very pleased to present the amazing video to Sunday Girl’s forthcoming single ‘Stop Hey’.

‘Stop Hey’ will be released early next year.

Jade Williams to her friends, Sunday Girl is a fan of Billie Holiday, Feist, 50s Chanel tailoring, and Polly Morgan's stuffed animal artistry, the 21 year-old Sidcup born Jade Williams earned her stage name thanks to forgetful customers of the pet shop she worked in every Sunday as a 14 year-old. “No one ever knew what I was called; they just used to call me 'Sunday Girl' and that sort of stuck.”

As well as an animal lover and talented artist, Jade enjoyed singing, but strictly only at home; she was so shy about singing in public that her mum took her to a hypnotherapist at the age of 17 to try to cure her of stage fright. “I tested it out at a group singing lesson, and thankfully the fear just went.” She swapped Sidcup for Brixton and within a year, Williams was a veteran of a ska band, a jazz band and a teenage trio who did covers of '40s blues standards with a “Ukulele and double bass.

Doing other people's songs began to bore her, but thanks to a background in pre-teen poetry (“Well, having a moan on bits of paper”) Williams began writing her own lyrics, taking the solo path and began working with other writers. Signing to Geffen late last year, Sunday Girl's album has been written and produced by herself and Jim Elliott (Ladyhawke, Kylie). “It's like a wall of beautiful noise,” decides Sunday Girl of her sound. “But also quite simple, cos I've got quite a girly voice. Some of the noises are quite harsh, so it's finding that balance of pretty, but also quite scrappy and pop.”

Her music isn't merely about boys and breaking up either; the lyrics delve into a friend's coke addiction, her current hometown of Brixton and difficult family situations. “I write some of the verses in riddles; I know what it means, but everyone else can make their own assumptions. I don't always want people to totally get what I'm singing about,” she says of tracks like All The Songs. “All of it has depth and is from a real idea, but we try and adapt it so they're not miserable. All the songs are from a real place; we just try and tart them up a bit!”

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