WALLIS BIRD

BROUGHT TO YOU IN ASSOCIATION WITH PRESENTED BY TOM MILLETT 26 year old Irish artist Wallis Bird is back with her second album New Boots, the followup to 2007 s Spoons which rocketed into the Top 10 UK Digital Album Charts, and earned her comparisons to Ani diFranco and Janis Joplin. Having toured over the last two years with artsits as diverse as the legendary Billy Bragg, who handpicked her to support him on his UK tour, and Ivor Novello award winner Gabrielle, as well as playing over 80 headlining shows in Europe during 2008, Wallis rounded off the year by clinching one of the biggest TV campaigns of 2008 when her storming cover of Just Can t Get Enough was used on a primetime nationwide advertisement. An impassioned performer, New Boots captures much of the live energy of her shows. A 5ft2 bundle of white heat, Wallis throws herself around the stage with willful abandon, breaking strings, shredding her finger