Eddi Reader talks to Kirsty Baird from Chief Radio.

Kirsty Baird had the pleasure of talking to Eddi Reader in the summer of 2021.
It was just before restrictions had been lifted and life for musicians and singers was still a little uncertain.
Chief radio was started in July 2020 when Kirsty's band got a song in the UK download chart at number 27 and it was also at number 3 in the Scottish chart which has subsequently been removed but the official chart.
Chief Radio plays more Scottish bands and artists, more unsigned and independent bands and also supports it's local communities.

Eddi Reader grew up in Glasgow and Irvine, Scotland and it was in those towns that she learned to use music as a vehicle for communicating with others through busking and performing at the local folk clubs. In the early 1980s, Eddi travelled around Europe with circus and performance artists before moving to London where she quickly became a sought after session vocalist. She famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single Perfect and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts.

However, it was her subsequent albums which signalled her increasing ability to assimilate different musical styles and make them all very much her own. Her unerring instinct for fine material, whether self penned, collaborative or a carefully chosen cover version resulted in Mirmama (1992), Eddi Reader (1994), Candyfloss & Medicine (1996), Angels & Electricity (1998), Simple Soul (2001).

Through these years Eddi based herself in London, but in 2001 she decided to move home to Glasgow where she recorded the classic Songs Of Robert Burns album released to international acclaim in 2003.

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