Merry Christmas!! Merry xmas peeps are you all enjoying the festive season?? Well let me tell you a little bit about Hogmanay....its going to be one hell of a crammed bus as my band have grown now to an 8 piece! with the addition of two backing singer's and a percussionist! Were going to be performing alongside Amy Macdonald which will be great as we've never been properly introduced although i've tried to say Hello a few times....I think she's just really shy.. I'll be performing tracks from both albums and also a few cheeky covers which includes a song that was very popular round about the same time as Punk Rocker made it big, can you guess? After the street party i'll be headin down to Edinburgh to close the Castle show. I was so honoured when I ws asked to do this as its not something i've done before and for me the beauty of music is being able to try all sorts of things, so when I heard that i'd be performing alongside a pipe band I thought cool! thats gonna be a new experience for me! So because they also traditionally close the show with pipe's they asked me to choose a traditional song but I didn't want to steer to far from who the beaten track so I picked a song called The Wild Mountainside by a farily well known Scottish songwriter, its performed beautifully by Eddi Reader on a recent album of her's. It was great to meet Eddi a few weeks ago, she's such a lovely lady and was wonderful considering I used to perform a song of her's called Perfect as a girl in my first band. She was delighted to hear we would be doing Wild Mountainside. Another person i'm excited about performing alongside is Leon Jackson whom I met a few weeks ago at Cash for Kids in Glasgow, he's such a wee sweetheart...we had a chat about a little mishap a few weeks ago where we both wanted to perform the same song at a gig in Paisley! We both had intended on perfoming the Song Caledonia but I went on first and played it first! He was fine about it though and we laughed it off later. It seems like everyones flying the flag at the moment with Amy releasing Caledonia last year as a single and Leon's got it on his album... So not too long til SXSW(for those who dont know its a festival in Texas) really looking forward to it as everyone from Amy WInehouse to KT have been there and its had a really big effect on their career in the US. After SXSW were gonna be hading North to Chicago taking in a few gigs on the way and then East to New York...my favourite place in the world! Its going to be such an exciting few months what with the Uk tour and then off to the states again. Although as soon as I get back i'm gettin stuck into my next album, oh my friends i cant wait to get this one on the shelf....its so important to me....i'm not going to let my label hijack this one like they did the last...i was under so much pressure to make my second album i felt suffocated and I fear this may have resulted in it not being as succesful as the first...but I wont let tht happen again...I refuse to let anyone pressurise me to finish it. I read an article by Amy Macdonald the other day saying she had to beg her label to put her in a first class seat next year for her first trip to Australia....well I know how she feels.....I currently hold the record in Oz of 12 weeks a no.1 in the charts!! and even then I had to beg for a business class seat cos when I got of the plane each time it was full steam ahead so a good night's sleep on a 24 hour flight means the world! But hay ho were in the middle of a recession and everyone's suffering, people are skint and people are dying becuase of it but I think despite the way it looks right now sometimes things just have to get worse in order to get better.... its the only was we can move forward and this world needs to go forwards!!!! and its started already with Obama... Viva la Revolution thats all that I can say! Big love Merry xmas Sandi xx

Posted 23.12.2008

	Alexandra Sandi Thom. STOP. TALKING. ABOUT. LOSEING. WEIGHT!! I like you because you are NOT a super skinney medea obsessed huge house owner. we love you the way you are . and btw any reason in perticular you put yourself on you tube danceing in your kichen to saterday night? although it is VERY funny. eps how the person in the background waches like you do it all the time ! although for all I know you could!! happy xmas all
	LizzieMay24.12.2008