Artist.......: Lilly Allen
Album........: Live at Main Square Festival
Label........: Capitol Records
Genre........: Pop
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2009-12-01
Str.date.....: 2009-07-03
Quality......: 170kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/lily/
track title time
Live at Main Square Festival
1. Everyone's at it
2. I could say
3. 22
4. Oh my god
5. Everything's just wonderful
6. LDN
7. Back to the start
8. He wasn't there
9. Littlest things
10. Smile
11. The fear
12. Womanizer
13. Fuck You
Runtime 53:38
Size 65.60
Release Notes:
Recorded : July 03, 2009 (Arras / France)
With her omnivorous musical tastes and cheeky attitude,
London-based pop singer/songwriter Lily Allen made a name
for herself almost as soon as she released her demos on
the Internet. The daughter of comedian Keith Allen, Lily
spent most of her childhood bouncing from one school to
another -- in fact, she attended 13 different schools
between the ages of five and 15. This constant moving
meant she didn't have much of a chance to make lasting
friendships, so Allen entertained herself with books and,
especially, music: she listened to everything from T. Rex,
the Specials, and the Slits to the Happy Mondays and
drum'n'bass, and even ran away to see the Glastonbury
Festival when she was 14. After she left school a year
later, she realized that music was the only career for
her. Allen concentrated on her songwriting and singing,
developing a style that was equally sweet and bratty; late
in 2005, she set up a MySpace page and posted demos of her
songs, as both individual tracks and as part of two
limited-edition "mixtapes" that also featured tracks by
Dizzee Rascal, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Ludacris.
The critical acclaim for her work fueled Allen's
publicity, leading to tens of thousands of friends on
MySpace, airplay on BBC Radio One, and a record deal with
Regal/Parlophone before the end of 2005.
Allen began working on her full-length album with
producers such as Greg Kurstin, Mark Ronson (with whom she
also collaborated on a cover of the Kaiser Chiefs' "Oh My
God" that appeared on her second mixtape), and Futurecut,
and released a limited-edition 7" of LDN as her debut
single in spring 2006. Both LDN and Smile, which followed
that summer, were chart successes, with the former
reaching number seven on the U.K. chart and the latter
hitting number one the week it debuted. Hot on the heels
of Smile came Allen's first full-length, Alright, Still,
which she supported with a slew of dates stretching out to
the end of the year. Despite the speed of her success,
Allen continued to update her MySpace page with amusing
blog rants, including one about her June 2006 appearance
on Top of the Pops that berated the lead singer of the
Kooks for "wearing broken straw hats and dark sunglasses"
indoors and Dirty Pretty Things for having "organic sliced
bread on the rider." Allen rang in 2007 with more tour
dates, including gigs in Japan, Australia, and the U.S.,
and the U.S. release of Alright, Still. She also earned
nominations for British Breakthrough Act and British
Female Solo for that year's Brit Awards, while "Smile" and
Alright, Still were nominated for British Single and
British Album, respectively.
Allen spent most of 2007 touring, but also collaborated
with Dizzee Rascal on Maths and English's duet "Wanna Be"
and provided vocals on Basement Jaxx's Crazy Itch Radio.
Allen's personal life and side projects were nearly as
prominent as her music career, with her relationship with
Chemical Brother Ed Simons and her subsequent miscarriage
making headlines in late 2007 and early 2008. In February
2008, Allen embarked on a talk show on BBC Three, Lily
Allen and Friends, which lasted through that April. That
month, Allen posted two new demos on her MySpace page,
including "GWB," which was about President George Bush;
for her second album, she worked with producer Greg
Kurstin of the Bird and the Bee, and co-wrote several
songs with him instead of just providing the lyrics. She
also worked on songs with Jamie Reynolds of the Klaxons
and wrote a song about comedian James Corden for the 2008
Shockwaves Awards. Another new song, "Everyone's at It,"
debuted that fall, and Allen courted controversy again
with an unauthorized cover of Britney Spears' "Womanizer"
that December. It's Not Me, It's You, which covered topics
like drugs, fame, family, and society, arrived early in
2009, preceded by the single The Fear.