I gave former Idol contestant Lisa Mitchell’s debut album a bit of good wrap when it came out, so it’s nice to see her getting some acknowledgement from her peers in winning the $30,ooo Australian Music Prize (AMP). I still reckon the way Idol treated her was disgraceful but I guess she’s getting the last laugh: I mean, she’s still here; they’re all gone.
One of the songs I really liked on the album was ‘Oh,Hark!’, though I said (and still say) that I preferred the unplugged version that came with the bonus disc rather than the heavily produced album version.
She has just released said song as her latest single and I have to say, that in those terms, the heavily produced version works a treat. I mean, tell me this isn’t a great little pop song with a killer clip. In fact, the clip fits the song so well, or vice versa, that you are reminded just what a visual medium pop music is and has always been.
Anyway, check it out and watch young Lise get her Joe Cocker come Kate Bush on as she leads a Twilight cast of emo vamps through the new single. No wonder she’s doing so well.
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I went to see her about a year ago, just on the strength of what I’d briefly seen on Idol, and Neapolitan Dreams on the radio. Even though she’d had an “unfortunate bread knife incident” and couldn’t play guitar that night (leaving that to a fill-in support) I was really impressed and hoped she’d do well. Pleasantly surprised at how well.
Interesting, Ern. Bread knife incident, eh?