Liz Green - Bad Medicine/ French Singer

Liz Green is this year's overall winner from the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition and will be playing the Pyramid Stage
at this year's festival. Though nervous of these heady heights (and the distance from the ground and people), she chose the
main stage as opposed to the Other Stage. This is why we like Liz Green. If you're going to have an experience, you may as
well make it as memorable as possible, right? Her debut single, the sharp-tongued tale 'Bad Medicine', is out August 20th and
is assuredly the start of a blossoming musical career. At only 24 years old, the scope of Liz's talent beggars belief. Sounding
like the missing link between Karen Dalton and Jolie Holland, Green's voice is a timeless, effortless throwback, unique and
indisputable. The self-explanatory (at least on the surface) b-side 'French Singer' alludes to her aspiration to be as significant
an artist as, say, Edith Piaf, and her hope to convey real emotion. Already her ability exceeds Green's far too modest nature.
Ably supported on nimble bass by Stuart Eastham, Green would break the heart of even the most empty individual with her
delivery of lyrics like, "If I act like I never had love, it's not as if I haven't tried".
Green's introduction to music was an education in pop, via her Dad's mix tapes. Ranging from the Stones and Chuck Berry to
Jackson 5 and Elton John, they inspired Green to pick up a guitar, although it took her another seven years to learn four
chords! It wasn't until she discovered finger picking that she began playing 'properly' and writing her own songs. The style she
has developed also goes some way to explaining her love affair with country and bluegrass. The unassuming and eternally
modest Green started out playing acoustic nights around Withington, Manchester in early 2005 and has gradually built a loyal
following which lead to a record deal with burgeoning local label, Humble Soul. It was their idea to enter Green into the
Glastonbury competition, but Liz was so convinced that nothing would come of it, she forgot she had even entered. The rest, as
they say…
Listening to Liz Green's voice should remind you of the rapture that can be derived when certain new music is discovered for
the first time.

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