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Nerina Pallot

Putting Nerina Pallot into a paragraph is about as easy as saying the name of your average Welsh town if you are mute and blind. But you could put it in a few words, Nerina's words: "go, little song, go".

Nerina has given us a brief history of her life, her music and flying...

Passion and silence. Every word, every line, aÌý m e a s u r e. Itâ€™s the science of the soul...

Nerina Pallot

Someone once wrote the wordsâ€ go, little book, goâ€. I want to re-phrase it and say â€œgo, little song, go.â€Ìý See, to me, songs have lives of their own, (the good ones at any rate): they spin their webs and catch moments, memories, emotions, and people too.

Some songs are small and shy like a nervous child that suddenly breaks into a smile when you least expect, and some bully you into submission or knock you out straight up.

Some you donâ€™t hear from for ages, and then you meet them again one day and you are pleased to see they have grown up ok and arenâ€™t stealing from grandmothers or selling you insurance. Or asking you to vote for them.

I am only telling you all this because itâ€™s the only way I can tell you about me. I guess you want to know about where I grew up and how terrible my childhood was and yes, my parents never understood me and no, the world doesnâ€™t either, and why thereâ€™s nobody else like me and just how great I am.

But I ainâ€™t gonna, because itâ€™s a somewhat pointless exercise and nothing I can tell you will make you love me any more or less. But I can sing every song offÌý Stevie Wonderâ€™s Talking Book and recite lyrics verbatim from Joniâ€™s Blue. I love Steely Dan so much that I even spent hours learning the guitar solo from Reeling in the Years.....very slowly though.

Nerina Pallot - Fires

I have family. Theyâ€™re good, not too weird, and scattered over many continents. The same goes for my friends. I got to live in India for a bit as a kid, and there was no FM radio there back then.

But there was Michael Jackson, and the first record I can remember really wanting to own was Thriller, and I saved up for it and salivated over the gatefold sleeve and honestly thought it was ok to have a monkey for a best friend.

Skating to Revel's Bolero

One day, a piano arrived in our home and I took up residence at, on, and literally in it. I only ventured out to roller skate to Ravelâ€™s Bolero and to buy my first guitar with my pocket money when I was 11.

I desperately wanted my mother to be a pushy stage mother, but she was acutely aware of what happened to Tiffany, and would rather I learnt Bobbie Gentry songs.

So, if the only encouragement I was going to get at home involved my motherâ€™s country record collection and her burgeoning Ravi Shankar library (it reminded her of home, it reminded everybody else of the local Indian restaurant), I was going to have to find rock and roll somewhere else.

It arrived when I was 12 years old, her name was Elvira, her folks were like, totally bohemian, and after a few years she worked her magic on me and I found my mojo. Well, kind of. I became obsessed with Bon Jovi and the Stone Roses.

But while I strummed along to Living on a Prayer (which I still maintain is a perfect pop song), I also decided to give my parentâ€™s record collection one last chance, and it was a good job too.

"This experience taught me many things, but especially that it is never a good idea to make a video in which you fly."

Simon and Garfunkel

It yielded a couple of gems: Simon and Garfunkelâ€™s Greatest Hits and Carole Kingâ€™s Tapestry. I thought Paul Simon should win a Nobel prize for the lines â€œstill a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the restâ€ (The Boxer).

And I liked Carole King because a lot of her songs were in easy keys and she had a kind of funny voice too which made me feel better about my own.

I didnâ€™t really know what it meant to sing â€œthereâ€™ll be good times again for me and youâ€, because I was a kid, but I kind of know now and I love her all the more because of it.

Cut to the chase, I ditch the glasses, the braces, the knee high socks and I emerge, butterfly like, and fly off from my little island in the English channel...... And land, courtesy of a scholarship, in a forbidding English boarding school. Wide eyed, socially inept and by now playing violin and singing opera too.

Art College

Nerina Pallot

After the pressure cooker of being a musical wunderkind, I move to London and enroll in art college. Everybody was stoned, which was fun for a while, but I could only listen to The Doors so much and after 5 all night readings of On the Road I was ready to go back to music school.

Here, I continued studying classical piano and singing, although eventually putting my violin back in its case after deciding cello players had way more fun and I wanted some of that.

I found that while I loved writing songs at the piano, those old country records I reluctantly grew up listening to had crept in somewhere and I could only get that feeling if I wrote on guitar.

On my travels I spied a Hofner bass, and decided if I had that I would almost certainly want to play every day. That was one long summer spent indoors listening to the White Album over and over and slowly picking out McCartneyâ€™s unbelievable playing on Sexy Sadie. (Itâ€™s ok, it mostly rains in the great British summer, so I wasnâ€™t so unhappy to be inside.....)

The real world

And then one day I woke up and I was in the real world, with a proper job (ok, not that proper, it was at a record company) working for Mr King.

He warned me against dabbling with the devil that is the major label, (he even threatened to break someoneâ€™s legs on my behalf), but I carried on regardless and made a record with a very ridiculous title and some even more questionable photographic evidence. This experience taught me many things, but especially that it is never a good idea to make a video in which you fly.

Which is where Sophia comes in. I wrote it around the time I went back to university in London, where I have been learning to love learning, and how to find the words to sing about what we talk about when we talk about love.

I must also mention my publishers Jeremy Lascelles and Kenny MacPherson at Chrysalis, who funded my adventures in music, employed the likes of Wendy Melvoin, Eric Rosse and Howard Willing to produce it, and kicked me up the backside when needed.

They have also trudged out to various godforsaken venues to see me opening for the likes of The Symptoms (god forsaken), Jason Mraz (demi-god forsaken), Semisonic (forsaken), and Sheryl Crow (oh, not forsaken at all, god definitely liked that dressing room).

They even hooked me up with the Canadian band Delerium, which gave me my first UK Club Chart #1 in January 2004 with â€˜Trulyâ€™.

Anyway, if all goes well, their jobs are safe, and I can finally get the vintage Les Paul I know will go so perfectly with my beautiful lady Barbra Bosendorfer. Theyâ€™ll make a lovely couple.

So, go, little songs, go........

last updated: 19/04/06

Have Your Say

Amber
hey Nerina i saw you live on saturday night you were brill and you were so normale as a person. i am a student at J.C.G i was woundering mabey if you could come to the school and sing live infront of us all. you sounded great on saturday better that on your cds i have now downloaded all of your songs and good luck in the future i hope that one day i am as success fall as you are xx

Jonny
Sophia helped bring me back from years of depression which almost destroyed my love of music. it was the first song i really felt in my soul in 20 years. i get chills every time play it. I ask my wife, 'is that how you love me?' and she says it is ...

Sophire
Oh, and how coinsidental is this.. I used to live in Alderney so was frequently in Jersey to buy essentials that don't exsist on an Island smaller than Jersey!!

Sophire
Hi, when I heard your song Sophia it was weird cos u pronounce it the way my name is pronounced. It just felt like you were singing to me. Your sound is so pure and your song structure so elegant. The lyrics of your songs are beautiful. Thank you for sharing them with all of us.

Mattias
Now theres a voice you fall in love with... literally. I admit I have no idea about you lyrics, cause I dont hear then because your voice steals it all. Thank you.

jo d
no song is a really a song without meaning, and you've got it girl!! my friend's got your cd, and i luv it sooo much!!!!

lydia bryant
everyones gone to war is the best song EVER!

tins
hi nerina!your song i guess is somewhat universal in meaning..because as far as the philippines (my country) your song resonates its own passion for all the things unexplainable..golly, the moment i'v heard it from the radio..i said--i got to know the artist and the song!thanks for bringing back the fire in melody and lyrics..really really love your sophia song!!!:)

sadie jones
hi you are so cool i just cant belive you did not win

amanda
y thou 'Cameron Hi Narina.Saw you live last night at the Acorn in Penzance & thought you were amazing and incredibly down to earth!"I like your work" very much!x ' she was total amazing

Joan Grima
Your Mum Works with me at laubman and pank! wat wonderful parents u hav! its great to know them!

Hannah
Nerina, I saw you at the Acorn, Penzance, and you are utterly the best!!!

Paul
Narina, me and my wife saw you in Cambridge on 26th jan. I think everyone should get to here your music at some point in there lives. We loved it, thanks for coming to our city and can't wait to see you again.

Alex
Hi I like your music so much me and my friends are making a website about you !! i need to ask you some questions but how do i ?

Cameron
Hi Narina.Saw you live last night at the Acorn in Penzance & thought you were amazing and incredibly down to earth!"I like your work" very much!x

Dave
"Maybe love is a requiem for the soul" - it makes absolutely no sense.

Nikki
you rock, and i hope you go far in your life with your music. Everybody's gone to war is wicked, and i got all my mates into it, as they had never heard it. All the best for the future. Nikki

Sweet
Hope things work out with Andrew, good luck. Curry on the good work

Autumn
Narina i think you are turely amazing i heard your live set on radio two on saturday and it blew me away you have a beautiful voice and you are truely blessed

rosie!!
i go to jcg and i'm in ICT doing a website for music in jersey....www.music-in-jersey.piczo.com

sophia
hi nerina i first looked up som esongs with my name(sophia)and i found your song.I think it is fantastic and i have learned how to sing it. I hope I do it justice. Thankyou for making my mixed CD more interesting with your amazing voice. -x-sophia-x-

Sophie
Don't worry Nerina, you sound English. When singing Damascus she doesnt say 'DAMASKISS' which is how Americans say it. Nerina says 'DAMASCUS'. get a hearing aid lol! love you nerina!x

Jess P
Hey! I just love the song "Everybodys gone to war" it's really beautiful and the lyrics have so much meaning, unlike most other songs! I want to become a singer and your music inspires me. You have such a gorgeous voice too!

Sophie
u rock

emma
i luv ur song, idaho!!! i amazin :D:D xxxx

Joe
I think Nerina combines an incredible voice with really powerful lyrics. Everybody's Gone to War is a catchy tune with fantastic metaphors, and Sophia is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've heard in my life. Please stay!

Eden
Ok, the song sophia is among the highest rating in my opinion on fires, that and halfway home. its probably the hormones or something else that makes us teenagers unexplainable but they do, as you say, have a life and personality of their own and seem to reach out to me. to tell, you the truth though, i like the meaning behing everybodys gone to war, but not the song (it was played about ten times a day at work though, so that may be it). I think that you are a bit of an amazing woman who will be known for years to come, most likely as well as Alanis Morisette and Sheryl Crow. And, yes, you do do everything american, why? halfway home has a quarter, not (yes tragic words i know) 30p or something, and more usa things as well. oh well, your choice. x

Jeremy
Hi Narina, Having grown up listening to The Beatles and the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, James Talor et all, I am impressed to learn that you share some of your influences with me. I am somewhat concerned though, at the US accent you adopt so strongly. Why? You have such a solid Britishness about your background, almost to the degree of 'Colonial', yet your music, as beautiful as it is, suggests a desire to be American, which I cannot understand. I love your material nonethelss.

Glenn Drayton
I think the song "Everybodys Gone to War" is an epiphany in the post 9/11 era. Really nice work Narina.

maria
hi! for not very long ago, I heard about you, and about one or two moths, I could sing allmoust 15 songs or something. And that says much about u!!!You are just so great, and I love your songs and voice!

Mykal
i love nerina's music and her lyrics are so powerful, i can't wait till i get my hands on her CD, it's that kind of music that meditates the mind, body and soul, plus she is HHOOTT

Brooke
Hey, well done! I love your song "Everybody's gone to war"! I actually learned of it through your cousin Karen (in australia) as I was her roommate! Anyways, you have a very beautiful voice and amazing family...good luck in the future! God has really blessed you.

Chloe Neville from lee-on-solent
i love sophire it makes me smile

Shaun
Your song and your voice light me up from the inside out. Cheers.

hi
your song everybodys gone to war thats the best song and the pisture on your new album why did you choose that:)?

South African fan
I absoulutly love the song Everybody's gone to war!!! you go girl!!

Rachie
You're so cool i wish i could be just like you!YOu new album ROCKS!!

Elz
im listenin 2 ur album right now! i reali lv Sophia n my dad is teachin me how 2 pllay it on the piano :)

Iain
The music I have waited for since Court and Spark. i EVEN bought an Ipod so it's always with me. 'All good people' - fabulous.

Ben
I've just changed the leading lady's name in a script I'm writing from Adele to Sophia - so we can use that song! Be in touch I hope.

Charlie (girl)
Sophia is so soft your voice is amazing! how do u hit those high notes!! i can put u in one word WOW!

joel
i luv the fires song

Jo
I love Nerina Pallot

Davies
I heard one of your songs on MTV and tried to find it all day i absoulutly love your voice and the song!!!

BjÃ¸rn Erik
well i hav enot heard sophie yet but i have seen Everyone is going to war, and its AMAZING!!! 1. The movie ROCKS 2. the Lyric ROCKS 3. YOU ROCK!! keep up the good work

Teddie
This is first time I have ever heard of Neria Pallot. Her music is great, especially Sophi and Idaho

danielle
i think your absolutly great narina! ur so talented and u have inspired me thank u so much :-)

Me
HER ALBUM IS AMAZING!!! I LOVE IT ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!

flora
i think shes great i love the song sophia her album is full of lyrics close to heart

Carla
Nerinas Everybodys Gone to WAR is "amazin" !!! hope u do well in future c u later Bye, "yor great"

Komal
For me, it was love at first sight when I first saw 'Everybody's Gone To War' and 'Sophia'(althought I only heard sophia =P) They are both brilliant songs! But then again, this is just coming from a 12 year old.. what do I know? =)

Christopher Gallacher
About time its great to see someone with so much talent.Hope to see Nerina in Glasgow soon.ps keep doing wot u do best

Kevin
Everybody's Gone To War video is brilliant

Bianca
Well actually today i heard "so everybody's going to war" and i just fell in love wit the song !! The lyrics are soo good and its like all the thoughts in my head came out in her song. Ur a true artist....i hope there will be many more great songs from Nerina. ;)

Lauren
her musics great so far gob smacked that her song didn't reach #1!! SOO EVERYBODYS GOING TO WAR BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR! The music videos great to!

Ian
Nerina Pallot, Katie Melua, Lucie Silvas etc etc, will this line of blandness ever end?

boo
i think your music is so great it is so cool your music is the best i have it on my myspace it rocks anyway bye and the movie to "everybodys gone to war " is so good vye boo

Ben
Nerina will you go out with me?

tippa
u rock i love all your songs!! rock on man!!

E Cadugan
I have liked Nerina for ages the new cd is very good

emma sue
i love your songs nerina pallot

Riot Yob
Funtastic!

Daisy
Her surname is pronounced Pallo

zo
i luv the song it is wicked luv ya loads nerina mwa xxx

Rose
I think it's an amazing song; godd beat, but also amazing lyrics

jay
that new song is great!and the video is cool

Alice
i love your albem sophia is my fav!

Martin
WOW, I heard the song on TV loved the video, never even dreamed it was a jersey girl :D You go Nerina!!!!

Zorro
Just seen here play @ Milton Keynes gr8 and Breaks Co-op (Otherside) supported really good too...

Danny
GREAT GREAT DREAMY VOICE... on "truly"... from the Chimera album by "Delerium"

Paul
Beautiful girl, great song, hope she writes many more .

Simon
Great looking Girl, Beautiful Voice to match

kate
I love the song everybody gone 2 war its my fave. Keep the songs coming!

sazzerz from blackpool
nerina you have such a beautiful voice keep up the good work and your album rocks!

Nerina!
"Everybody's Gone to War" Is a fabulous song ur lyrics are so deep & moving..Well done & best of luck in tha futur!! :) xxX

Gemma
Narina you have such a great talent, i love your new song!

Sera Jones
I LOVE THIS NEW SONG I NEEEED HER ALBUM

Emily
"Everybody's Gone to War" seems a very deep and complex song, which I respect. There's to much drivvle on our radio's at the moment! Well done Nerina, I really do love your music. :)

xxxxx moi xxxxxx
i luv ya new song n carnt wait 2 buy it

pizza
shes from jersey which kicks ass

Pssst, hottie !
Nerina baby, you're such a sweet honey, pssst hot!

jennali
when i saw her last night, on that stage in munich i was totally flashed!she has a distinctive voice, she looks pretty and is wonderful! her songs are amazing.i even could talk to her for a minute,and she was awesome! nerina: i love you!

becki
haha, ive met her. she came to solfest 2005 and i was working back stage, (im 15 bdw) she is utterly talanted and a really nice person. heehee. she had her photo taken with my friend. if she reads this DO U REMEMBER YORKSHIRE LADY and you were going to write a song about driving to cumbria, but it came out as the only word was bumbria to ryme haha lol u rock!

Laurent M. (Grenoble -FRANCE)
We listened Nerina at Lyon just before James BLUNT. We have been very happy to discover her. Good feeling, music, voice... Sorry for my english not extremly good.

"ART OF.......?
ALEX DID YOU ATTEND SCHOOL? WHAT IS "DA" OR ARE YOU A JAMAICAN BEAN?

Alex
Nerina is so talented and she's pretty too!! It's interesting cos I've got da same surname as her!!

stubbers
please leave room for jersey live 2006...great day out ,and you would make it even better.............

Emma
I've been listening to her music for years and it's still amazing, the beauty isn't only in her looks but in her voice too, hope she'll go far...

Becky
I'm 14 and I think shes so talented! I saw her perform as the support act in July and I was amazed (she should have been the main act!!). I love her album so much, Sophia is my fave. I really hope she goes far. :)

Jonny.
My god she blew everyone else away yesterday. Gorgeous, gifted and sensitive â€“ everything a guy could ever want in a girl. No-wonder she's a Dear Frustrated Superstar if she has to struggle away on the edge when Jamima Stevens â€“ lovelly though she was â€“ has topped th charts with LA X. 'Patience' Nerina â€“ with your talent, it's got to come. I'm off to buy both your albums. Thanks for yesterday. Hope to see you at Jersey Live 2006!

James Forrester
Hey thought u were wicked @ Summer Sizzler (Jersey) did ur cousin Ian go out wid my sister Hannah???

"BAAAAAAAR CRAAAA"
IS THIS GIRL JERSEY????? BUT SHE,S GOOD LOOKING!!!!!

Riot Yob
"Pretentious, moi?" You betcha!

louise
im 14, i got the 'fires' album and it is so good! i love sophia its really good to sing to:P i want to be able to sing just like her:D bye

stubbers
By the way Nerina that was a request for you to play Jersey Live 2005 ,not inviting you to go to the festival with me !!!!!!!!!!! .Don,t think my girlfriend Trish would be too pleased........

stubbers
How about Jersey Live 2005 ? or are you spoken for ............Love Fires..

D le Geyt
"Pretentious, moi?

"THE ART OF HONESTY"
THANKYOU TO HOEVER,S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NEW PICTURES OF NERINA. SINCERELY IMPRESSED,AS BEFORE,AN IDEAL MOVE WOULD BE SOME PHOTO ART OF HER MODELLING, HOWEVER SHE WISHED TO MAKE USE OF THE BEAUTY THAT SHE HAS,YOUTH IS A VERY SPLENDID THING TO BE CAPTURED PERHAPS IN THE FLEETING MOMENT THAT IT VISITS US,SO PLEASE NERINA CONSIDER THIS TO BROADEN YOUR APPEAL AND TREAT US ALL YOUR ADDORING FANS. BEST WISHES, JJ, FAIRLIGHT PROGRAMMING.

chris
Just read the interview on the website. Great to see Nerina back. Loved the first album , and FIRES will certainly go to the top of my buy now list. Seen Nerina live at both V 2001 and supporting Semisonic (2000?) - a star waiting to be discovered. Looking forward to seeing her again at Guilfest this year. Any more festival dates planned ?

Ryan (Host)
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"The art of honesty"
What a beautiful young women Narina is,unfortunately i have never heard her music,but it,s a pleasure to see such beauty as this before your eyes. If she,s as talented musically as she is stunning im truly missing out on something a bit special,wow what a lady. "is she single buy any chance??????????????????????LET ME KNOW PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Paul
great singer, absolute bliss, got her music from her brother Charlie

Gaz
I think the words "extremely" and "fit" come to mind!

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