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Nathan Evans sails to chart-topping success with Wellerman shanty The Airdrie musician has reached number three on the Official Singles Chart and topped this weeks Big Top 40 countdown. Updated Nathan Evans (Image: Photographer - Jo Hanley (UK)) Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Somet...

Shane Codd reveals how he conquered the pop charts from his bedroom in Cavan Aspiring 24-year-old tipped for major global success by head of UK record label tells how parents influenced his taste and career Updated Shane Codd is making huge waves on the charts We may be stuck in what feels like a never-ending lockdown but that hasn’t stopped exciting Irish DJ Shane Codd conquering the pop world from his bedroom in Cavan. The 24-year-old has spent that last three months on the UK singles ch...

Advertisement Nickelback know a fair few things about putting together a half-decent parody, it turns out. Before the Canadian band that everyone pretends to hate scaled to the gravellY heights of ‘How You Remind Me’, they started life as a covers band called Village Idiot. Accordingly, when the bunch of aspiring seamen’s (no sniggering at the back) sails caught wind of The Lottery Winners’ shanty-flavoured version of ‘Rockstar’, the band sportingly clambered abo...

Last modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 13.02 EST The unlikely craze for sea shanties surges ever onward, as Scottish postal worker Nathan Evans reaches No 3 in the UK singles chart with his rendition of Wellerman. The hearty, ultra-catchy shanty about a group of dogged whalers looking forward to their shore leave has been at the centre of the TikTok viral trend, with users harmonising with one another using the app’s duet function. Evans’s shanty and folksong performances have earned him more tha...

TWO Warrington musicians have caught the eye – and ear – of a major record label as part of their auditions for Open Mic UK. As previously reported, George Young, from Old Hall, and Greg Dixon, from Orford, have entered the biggest online search for British artists which has this year gone virtual due to the pandemic. The latest round saw a video of their performance of Wayfaring Stranger aired to judges on Thursday. It instantly made an impression and the duo were picked out by a t...

Christine Ochefu ( The Guardian) highlights the career of soul, blues, and jazz singer and songwriter Celeste (Celeste Epiphany Waite). The American-born British singer’s 2019 single “Coco Blood” rendered tribute to her British-Jamaican heritage, and the music video for the song, directed by Akinola Davids, was filmed in Jamaica. Her album Not Your Muse was released today (January 29, 2021) on Polydor. Ochefu writes: She was supposed to be the sound of 2020 until the pandemic stalled her...

Hey, hey, even sea shanty singers can be rockstars! Thanks to TikTok, theres a new viral sensation as a group called The Lottery Winners have turned Nickelbacks "Rockstar" into a sea shanty with the band getting involved as well. It started about a week ago when The Lottery Winners responded to a request to turn a Nickelback track into a sea shanty by taking on the bands 2005 single "Rockstar." While word of the cover quickly spread, things really took off over the weekend when Nickelback got i...

Celeste was the Sound of 2020, but her debut album has only just arrived The sultry timbre, smoky tones and jazzy flow of Celeste have a timeless quality, which is probably just as well, since the British singer’s career has been on hold for a year. Having won last year’s Rising Star award at the Brits and topped the BBC Sound of 2020 poll, 26-year-old singer-songwriter Celeste Epiphany Waite was touted as the breakout star of a year in which we all became stuck indoors.  The pandemic has ...

Hey, hey, even sea shanty singers can be rockstars! Thanks to TikTok, theres a new viral sensation as a group called The Lottery Winners have turned Nickelbacks "Rockstar" into a sea shanty with the band getting involved as well. It started about a week ago when The Lottery Winners responded to a request to turn a Nickelback track into a sea shanty by taking on the bands 2005 single "Rockstar." While word of the cover quickly spread, things really took off over the weekend when Nickelback got i...

Rolling Stone Sea Shanty Sensation Nathan Evans: ‘I’m an Actual Musician’ “I’ll prove that I’ve got other things in my locker,” promises the TikTok-famous young musician who just signed a deal with Universal’s Polydor Records By Jo Hanley* On Christmas, Nathan Evans was a struggling 26-year-old musician who delivered mail by day in Airdrie, Scotland, a small town outside Glasgow. He needed a job that would allow him time to practice and also help support him and...