Eddi Reader

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Sadenia "Eddi" Reader MBE (born 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career.

She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts.

In 2003, she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.

Personal life

In 2013, Reader married John Douglas, a songwriter and member of The Trashcan Sinatras.

Her 2013 appearance on the British TV programme Question Time was publicly criticised, with one viewer threatening on Twitter to cut her tongue out. Reader has said she is "an egalitarian who believes in the autonomy of small nations, it's unconscionable that those who call people 'nationalists' for wanting their country to manage its own wealth, do not recognise the 'nationalistic' choice of supporting a 'BRITISH nation'". Reader said that, in reprisal for her advocacy for Scottish independence, Lord David Steel said in a debate on Scottish independence in the House of Lords that Reader's work on Robert Burns was "murdering Burns' simple melodies". Reader also said that the newspaper The Scotsman, in reprisal for Reader choosing to advocate a Yes vote, had published a story mischaracterising her political views and misrepresenting her great-uncle as a Nazi and leader in the Irish Republican Army, stating: "there’s people out there in Scotland, especially in the Press, and especially at The Scotsman — which is a very wrong name for that paper, because they don’t believe in Scotland at all; they believe in London management — who believe that Scots do not deserve the vote. I don’t want to be in that team." She issued a formal appeal to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), saying that: "The article was trying to portray ALL people wanting to have Scots running Scotland and independence voters as having links with the early Fascists. The journalist scrapped around and tried to attach my great-uncle, who supported independence, to a 'Nazi' group and a terrorist organisation, creating hateful responses and threats to my family." The PCC ruled in May 2013 that the image in the story, accompanied by the headline ‘Klan Alba’, did not breach the Editor’s Code of Practice.

Reader is writing a book for publication about her great-uncle Seamus (or James) Reader, based on his extensive diaries. He was head of the Scottish Brigade of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, when the Irish War of Independence broke out in 1919, later becoming a founder of the abortive Scottish Republican Army, which attempted to replicate the Irish struggle in Scotland between the wars. On Facebook, she posted that he: "was in command of 4,000 Scots involved in the Irish Rising build-up and the Irish war against The British state. In telling the story I felt my ancestor was passing the baton to me to tell the truthful story of this time". Reader has been an advocate for the Yes Scotland movement, campaigning for a Yes vote in the referendum for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

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Early career

The reader was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of a welder and the eldest of seven children (her brother, Francis, is a member of the band The Trash Can Sinatras, and her grandmother, Sadie Smith, was a leading Scottish footballer). Edna was her parents' name. The young Reader family's family moved to a two-bedroom apartment in Arden's district, first in a tenement slum demolished in 1965.

The family was relocated 25 miles from Glasgow in 1976, North Ayrshire, due to overcrowding. However, the reader returned to Glasgow (where she spent her entire life in Pollok) to finish her compulsory schooling. She began playing the guitar at the age of ten and began her musical career busking in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street, then in London and Europe in the early 1980s (where she also worked with circus and performance artists).

She returned to Scotland after finding factory work in Irvine and working part-time in Sirocco Recording Studio in Kilmarnock, and she saw an advertisement in the music press and moved to London to audition and join the post-punk band Gang of Four, who needed a backing singer for their British television music show The Old Grey Whistle Test and for their UK tour. This culminated in her first tour with the band in the United States. Following her return to the United Kingdom and leaving the band, she began performing jingles for radio advertisements and singing with such bands as Eurythmics, The Waterboys, Billy MacKenzie, John Foxx, and Alison Moyet.

Solo career

The reader returned to Scotland, but she took a brief detour into acting before embarking on her solo career. In John Byrne's Your Cheatin' Heart, a comedy-drama series for BBC Television set in Scotland, Jolene Jowett, a singer and accordionist, appeared. Reader appeared on BBC Scotland's No Stilettos, a music performance programme filmed in Glasgow in 1993. Aside from acting in Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, she appeared in The Curious Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company). This was a BBC Radio 4 show in 1996 and then a Tron Theatre production the same year.

Reader, who is back in London, worked on new material for a back band called The Patron Saints of Imperfection (made up of Roy Dodds, Neill, and Calum MacColl, as well as Phil Steriopoulos). Mirmama's 1992's Mirmama's debut solo album was her first solo album on RCA Records. She met Geoff Travis, who referred her to Warner Brothers subsidiary firm Blanco Y Negro. Rob Dickens produced her second solo album Eddi Reader (1994), which received the "Best female singer" BRIT Award that year, followed by Candyfloss and Medicine (1996), and Angels & Electricity (1998). When she recorded Simple Soul (2001) and Driftwood (2002), a "homegrown" collection of songs recorded during the Simple Soul sessions, she departed from Warner Brothers and carried on her recording on Geoff Travis' Rough Trade label. Reader also recorded "Ocean Love" for the soundtrack of the animated Danish film Help! during this period. I'm a fish (2001). "Fragile Thing" was another of Stuart Adamson's final singles before his death.

Readers stayed on tour (England, Scotland, Japan, Australia, Spain, Spain, and Ireland). She recorded her album of material by Robert Burns, who performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 2003, resulting in good reviews and a renewed interest in Scotland's "bard" despite a burgeoning interest in the subject.

Reader performed at the re-opening of the new Scottish Parliament building, where she was welcomed to Queen Elizabeth II. "I was honored to sing at the beginning of the parliament, but I almost didn't have to," she remarked on. I wanted to sing 'Auld Lang Syne' because I thought it would have been fine for the politicians, but they wanted me to sing it in 'F' key, but they didn't do it, so I told them I wasn't doing it. I finally agreed at the last minute.

Following the introduction of St Clare's Night Out: Live at The Basement, She spent April 2006 touring Australia with Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly.

Peacetime, the reader's eighth studio album, was released on Rough Trade's record label in 2007. The album was released by fellow Scottish folk musician John McCusker, as well as original material from long-time collaborator Boo Hewerdine and John Douglas of The Trash Can Sinatras.

Reader, who was a special guest at Tom McRae's Hotel Cafe Tour in spring 2008, was a special visitor. Me and Orson Welles, directed by Richard Linklater, starred Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes in 2009. With Jools Holland, with whom she had previously collaborated on the single "Waiting Game," the reader set 1930s standards.

The Songs of Robert Burns Deluxe Edition was released in January 2009 to celebrate Robert Burns' birth 250 years. The latest compilation collected seven songs from the original 2003 session ("Green Grow the Rashes O," "Of A' the Airts"), three from 2007's Peacetime ("Ye banks and Braes"), three from "Leezie Lindsay"), as well as three from the original Burns album "Comin' Thro the Curtain"; two from that session. As with the previous album's debut, it was promoted, with two sold-out shows at Glasgow's annual Celtic Connections festival.

Love is the Way, Reader's ninth studio album, which was self-produced, was released in 2009. On her 19-date fall 2008 UK tour, she sold an exclusive, pre-released, and minimally wrapped version of the disc on her 19-date Rough Trade label.

Reader appeared on the Irish language album Ceol '10 Sneil Siar, performing an Irish version of Fairground Attraction's "Perfect" called "Foirfe" in early 2010. Live in Japan, her own brand, launched a live album on December and sold only online. It was mastered and mixed by Mark Freegard, who had been on her Japan shows in September 2009, who had been on the 2009 album Love is the Way.

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