Meadies Musical Marconi

PP Arnold has sung with some of the biggest names in rock, pop and soul but has spent half a century at the side of the stage since her last solo hit in 1968. Now she’s stepping back into the spotlight with her her first new solo album in 51 years.  LTW: Hi PP. Can you please let me know your first memory as a child? PP Arnold : It’s kind of a good memory and a bad one all mixed up together. It’s quite deep actually. I was about two years old and I was watching my daddy, my uncle and their cousin at a family gathering dance contest. Their cousin was cursing a lot, saying one of my favourite words that had been taught to me by my Aunt Bert, my grandfather´s youngest sister – “Muthafucka”. I really liked the sound of it and every time Otis uttered the word it seemed to cause excitement in the room. So I got really excited and shouted out “Muthafucka” and my father stopped dancing, grabbed me and gave me a spanking in front of everybody. I couldn´t understand why nobody said anyt...

 Joining the ranks of Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Janis Joplin as creative yet exciting female singer/songwriter is new starlet Yasmin Kiddle. On the verge of releasing her luscious debut single Turn Me Out, followed by EP Precede, which was recorded in part at Paul Weller’s Black Barn Studio.  Can you please tell me about your upbringing and first memories as a child?  I was brought up around North London, being half Greek Cypriot and half English. I remember music being very present in my family. My first memories of music were seeing/hearing my Dad bashing out a tune on his acoustic guitar, this intrigued me. We had a piano as well. No one really played instruments very well like the Von Trapp family or something, but I remember there always being a huge passion for music. What was the first music you remember hearing and what appealed to you about the music? My Dad used to put on The Kinks You Really Got Me for my siblings and I so that we could run/dance a...