Ellie Goulding Is Critics Chouce To Win A Brit Award For Her Stunning Single Starry Eyed
Hereford-born composer Ellie Goulding will walk onto the cave-like stage at London’s Earls Court and pick up the critics’ choice Brit award. Her song Starry Eyed has been praised by critics. She will have new shoes, a sparkling outfit and a pro applying her make-up. Some accomplishment – but not, as she is saying, as massive a feat as releasing her first album, recorded in a touch less salubrious environment and scheduled for release in a fortnight.
“A futon bed which was always in a bed format so not like a chair,” she starts, describing the Bromley, Essex bedroom of producer and mate Starsmith where the album was recorded. “A actually small bedroom, his moggies would come in and tiny everywhere. It smelt a bit due to that.
Starsmith Fin Dow-Smith aka Starsmith co-wrote and produced the album “One time, Chris who plays the guitar on some of the tracks left his pedal box and the kitty comes in and just casually pisses like it’s a moggy tray or something. We just all stared in denial. He has like 8 cats. “His [Starsmith] mother’s a cat lover, but he does love his moggies. I have even discussed one of the pussies on my album sleeve.” Together, Goulding and Starsmith ( 20-year-old Fin Dow-Smith ) spent much of 2009 in their den, a room they returned to work between a tour with Small Boots and appearances on shows like …Later With Jools Holland. ‘Emotional’ journey Goulding says it’s been an “emotional” journey, one which finished with her record company “literally prizing the completed album” from the couple’s fingers.
