Sandi Thom

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Alexandria "Sandi" Thom (born 11 August 1981) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Banff, Scotland.

"I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)," her debut single in 2006, topped the UK Singles Chart in June of that year.

The single was the top-selling single of 2006 in Australia, where it spent ten weeks at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart.

Thom has five studio albums: Smile. It Confuses People (2006), The Pink & the Lily (2008), Merchants and Robbers (2010), Flesh and Blood (2012), and The Covers Collection (2013).

Early life

Thom was born in Banff. She attended Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. Thom spent three years in The Residents, a group from Gourdon, Aberdeenshire, playing piano and singing.

Thom was the first student to be accepted at the prestigious Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA). Thom earned a BA in Performing Arts from LIPA in 2003.

Thom has helped with many charitable appeals for Oxfam's efforts in Malawi and around east Africa.

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Career

Thom moved to London in 2004 to continue her songwriting career, working with three co-writers: Jake Field, Duncan Thompson, and Tom Gilbert. Thom, an independent music publishing company, and its UK arm, P&P Songs, received £25,000. In late 2005, she signed a record contract with the record company Viking Legacy, where her mother was a playwright who performed "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)" for her debut single. The song was unable to gain major airplay or sales, and the unveiling of her debut was postponed.

Tooting's 21 Nights was a "tour" consisting of 21 performances from her Tooting flat's basement from February to March 16th. Professional hosting company Streaming Tank also filmed these and then broadcast them on YouTube. Tickets were available, but the venue had a capacity of "six people" ("including the band"). The gigs were announced in the early hours of 22 February by MySpace. "The thought... popped into her head" after her car broke down while traveling from York (on the 22nd) to one in Wales (on the 23rd) and after her very first live webcast she did at a gig in Edinburgh arranged by her PR manager, Paul Boyd from Polar Flame Music, according to Thom's website. In October 2005, Thom's first video webcast was at the Edinburgh Left Bank Theatre.

Thom's promotion bids were revealed after being in contact with Thom's manager's Ian Brown and John Black, according to news services. Quite Vivacious Communications and Polar Flame Music UK's management and music PR staff claim to have executed a large media campaign, which included a million "virtual flyers" (unsolicited emails). The Sunday Times published a piece in a story that appeared in March 2006. Other news outlets had reported this as soon as possible. Before growing to 70,000, it was said that the first day's audience was around 60 to 70. According to a Reuters story the same month, "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker" would be re-released the following week, with the album following in April. The tour's coverage prompted major brand interest, with music label representatives attending the gigs in question, and the recording was not released before a contract was signed. After learning of the webcasting, Craig Logan, the managing director of RCA Records UK, said the label was "drawn to" Thom, as has Thom herself. Thom eventually accepted RCA's proposal, which resulted in the single re-release being postponed until May, when it was announced via the big brand. The news of this broke on Sunday, with the official announcing itself as webcast. The single was featured on Music Week's playlist the day before.

Paul Kelly of The Independent and others have wondered how Thom managed to maintain production of the webcast and its viewership figures, while others have observed that internet traffic monitors such as Alexa and Technorati have no unusual interest in Thom before she was covered by mainstream media.

"I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker" was re-released by RCA Records UK on May 22nd, 2006, following her live webcast concerts from her basement in Tooting, and accompanied by increasing airplay exposure. Thom appeared on Top of the Pops for her debut on terrestrial television, and the album debuted at number one on the singles chart in June. The artist was later nominated for Best British Single at the British Academy Awards. "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker" in Ireland soared to the top of the charts for ten weeks in a row, and Australia's highest-selling single of 2006. Smile, Thom's debut album... It Confuses People was launched in the United Kingdom in the same month and debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number one, eventually selling over one million copies around the world. The follow-up single "What If I'm Right" reached the lower ranks of the charts, but "Lonely Girl," the album's third single, was unable to reach any charts.

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Thom said in February 2009 that she would be releasing her third album as an independent artist after RCA had dropped her from their catalog without her prior knowledge and who later said she was pressured during the recording of her second album.

In July 2009, Sandi Thom, a compilation album, was released to fulfill contractual obligations without Thom's permission by the Sony BMG label Camden. Thom's two previous albums and various B-sides were assembled in Thom's 18 track set.

Merchants and Thieves, Thom's third studio album, was released as the lead single on May 2010, feasturing guitarist and then-boyfriend Joe Bonamassa). Thom's album was released under her own name, Guardian Angels, which she created following her break with RCA. Pop folk will shift from pop folk to blues and roots influences. On the deluxe edition of the album, Thom's cover version of the song "House of the Rising Sun" was released as a download-only single and extra track. It was also offered as a free download to readers of the Scottish Mail newspaper. At the Scottish Music Awards, Merchants and Thieves was nominated for Best Album at the British Blues Awards 2011, as well as Best Jazz/Blues Recording of the Year. Thom was also selected for Artist of the Year, and her company Guardian Angel Recordings was nominated for Year's Best Recordings.

In September 2012, Thom's fourth studio album, Flesh and Blood, was released. Rich Robinson, the Black Crows' guitarist, and others such as Audley Freed and Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys were recorded in Nashville's 16 Ton Studios. Thom's first live concert DVD followed former boyfriend Joe Bonamassa's appearance in a guest appearance.

The Covers Collection, Thom's fifth studio album, was announced in November 2013 and was marketed as an acoustic collection of songs that she listened to as a child, including Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Pearl Jam, Heart, and Fleetwood Mac. Thom performed all instruments on the record and produced the album, which didn't do well.

Thom had signed to MITA Records for the release of her sixth studio album in 2015, according to the magazine. She regained fame after posting a video on her Facebook page in which she mocked BBC Radio 2 and Bauer Media Group's radio stations for not playlisting her single "Earthquake" instead. In the video, she said, "I'm fucking sick to death of the bullshit this industry takes on people like me." Enough, I'm done. You should probably avoid Radio 2 for the time being. You can fuck the lot of you on the Bauer network, so fuck you, Mr. fuck the lot. "There is no reason why you should do this to me once more." Following a backlash, the video was taken down shortly. She accused the BBC of a bias against Scottish recording artists in a subsequent interview. Despite these remarks, many regional BBC stations and BBC Radio Scotland had "Earthquake" on playlists. In the case, MITA Records did not announce Thom's album. Thom self-released the charity single "Tightrope" in March 2017 by The Famous Company, but she hoped it would be out by the end of 2017, but said in an interview that no date was set for her next album.

Thom said in February 2018 that "There is no money in releasing albums anymore unless you have a bottomless pit of funds" and that "the only way to make a living off the internet will be through volume of output."

In 2019, Thom released the album Ghosts.

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