Every now and then there are some musicians who never quite get the recognition that they deserve and (having recently reviewed the first single of Sugababes 4.0) I thought it would be good to say something about the first 'babe to try and make it solo. Ms. Siobhan Donaghy.It would always have been hard for someone to try and escape the stigma of being in a girlgroup such as the Sugababes and be taken seriously as an artist in your own right. For Siobhan this appears to have never really happened, for whenever people speak of her the thoughts of the original and brooding Sugababes that donned the cover of One Touch is never far from your mind.
This was all meant to change in 2007 when she unveiled her sophomore album Ghosts, a blend of aetherial pop that had critics noting comparisons to the Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack and Kate Bush. However, a series of blunders occured with made multiple copies unsellable, due to a manufacturing error, as well as a shockingly bad marketing campaign where the best appearance was her miming on Loose Women.
After the album just scraped it's way into the Top 100 the push, however small and insignificant, was disbanded with third single Medevac never finding a release date. This all occuring in spite of there being a unanimous praising of her by all critical publications that gave a review. Siobhan then tried her hand at acting in a reimagining of Rent, a production that was critically panned, as well as becoming a DJ.
With an announced third album we at Manganese Music hope that maybe the third time is the charm and Siobhan can take her rightful place at the forefront of the Kate Bush inspired acts dominating the charts, a place where fellow redhead Florence Welsh finds herself currently without peer.
So let us remember her for the single that never was:
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