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Rosie Doonan is different. In conversation she readily admits to gaining inspiration from influences as disparate as the Beta Band to Laura Veirs to Free, but musically she reflects such divergences with tunes of such celestial grace you�re left thinking they must be covers. �I grew up listening to The Stones, Joni Mitchell and Free,� she explains. �But my roots are in the folk scene, so that�s in there too.�
But there�s more to Rosie than songs blessed with such warmth they�ll halve your winter heating bills. She sings desolate astral-folk (�Hold On�) pithy social commentary (�Little Boat�) and tales of love-gone-bad to make Amy W sound like a Blue Peter presenter. �It�s fair to say I�ve been through some emotional upheavals in the last couple of years,� she laughs.
Growing up in Wakefield, Rosie found herself �surrounded by music�. Living in a house overflowing with hung over musicians - her dad played uilean pipes in folk luminaries Hedgehog Pie, an �uncle� was in Lindisfarne - she was a free festival veteran by fourteen. �We would go to every festival going. All the kids would hang around together and then we�d go and see our parents play in bands. It gave me a good grounding in what being a musician is all about.�
�I want as many people as possible to hear my music, because it�s got a universal theme� she explains. �At the moment, I play gigs in Wakefield and there�s a big crowd because people know me. That�s great, but the time has come to get out there and play to people who only know me through my music. I�ve put my heart and soul into the record, and I�d like to think you can hear it in the songs.� She has announced herself as a major talent by turning her sorrow into music as joyous and uplifting as Moving On. The past is the past. But the future�s Rosie.
�If you thought modern rock was incapable of matching the emotional pull of the past, fast forward to piano lament �Hold On� and tell us you�re not reaching for the Kleenex�
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