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"Ann West for Bury switch-on"

Ann West for Bury switch-on
By Liane Baddeley

FORMER-model-turned-singer-songwriter Ann West will perform at the Christmas lights switch-on at Millgate Shopping Centre in Bury on Sunday (November 16), ahead of the release of her debut album Confidante in spring 2009.

West has been prominent in a range of capacities before turning her hand to music; such as metaphysics, meditation, yoga, writing, television presenting and radio shows.

She also formed a non-profit organisation named The Universal Cetacean Institute to help protect whales and dolphins, which included assisting the US Navy with environmental compliance.

West's album has been overseen by producer David Tickle, who has worked with Prince, Peter Gabriel, U2, Split Enz, George Michael, Jackson Browne and Blondie. It is described as being like "a contemporary Carly Simon - with pop sensibilities, Celtic melodies and a hint of Nashville craftsmanship".


Published: Wed, 12 November, 2008 - City Life


"OK Magazine - Hot Stars"

ANN WEST
Missed It Again

4 Star Review ****
OK Magazine HOT STARS
Song - 'Missed it Again':
The Scottish star has been a model in LA. TV presenter and radio DJ in Hawaii and a Spiritual Guru in India. She returns to the UK to release her debut single - a very radio friendly pop ballad about finding the right man. It turns out to be surprisingly catchy...... Andre Neverling
- Andre Neverling


"Scottish Daily Record"

SCOTTISH DAILY RECORD
Ann West
Missed It Again ****
TAKEN from her debut album Confidante, the Scots singer’s single is produced by David Tickle (who has worked with Prince) and is a laid-back summer pop single. - FOUR STARS


"Public Reviews"

Left by docjemma on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:47:36 PM
Joyful, melodic, thoughtful - keeps running in my mind lightly~ Absolutely lovely - Excited to hear the whole album!
Left by joanheartfield on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:14:01 AM
We love Ann's music. Just the right mix of heart and soul. Uplifting but with a punch. We will use this music in our workshops and trainings. It speaks to the feelings and issues we all have. Great for background too. We like the music we listen to to inspire us--and this does. Tomas and Joan Heartfield, Ph.D. Talking Hearts, Divine Feminine, Awakened Masculine facilitators
Left by alweenazairi on Monday, August 18, 2008 8:09:02 AM
Great song. I bought it as soon as I heard it. Looking forward to listening to the rest of the album. Alweena
Left by westofavalon on Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:21:26 PM
I am loving these songs... I Missed it Again is so uplifting and fun! Now just waiting for the rest of the album!!!
Left by lilslow808state on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:50:07 AM
GREAT SONG! Every time i here this song i want to drive with my top down, car full of all my friends, just having a fun. I cant wait to pick up the whole album... - WE7


"The Lady Herself"

Up n coming songstress. Think a contemporary Carly Simon with pop sensibilities, Celtic melodies and a hint of Nashville craftsmanship. - Subba Cultcha


"Keeping Real Music Alive"

ANN WEST - Missed It Again:Ann West former model has been a busy lady in her life and now she's doing what she's wanted to do and thats to sing. "Missed it Again " is Ann West' debut single and what an impressive start. This is a great catchy pop song that should sell by the bucket load as it is really catchy and makes you feel good. the alternative radio version of this song is the extra track on this single and that's well cool too. Ann West is one beautiful lady and whats more she's got a beautiful voice to match. Go on give her a listen. Ann west rocks!! 8/10 - Street Voice News


"Sept -Pop music at it's best."


ANN WEST – Confidante Sampler: The full album hasn't been released to the music press but Charmed Records have sent out this wicked five track sample to give us all a taster of what is come. If the rest of the album is like these five tracks I have in front of me then you'll be in for one hell of a great Pop album. For me 'I Missed It Again' (Ann's Current Single) and 'Sebastian' really do so much for me as Anne West's vocals are fantastic and the musicians really do themselves justice. and 'Writing On The Wall' and 'I Believe In Me' were of very high quality too and fit in so well. 'Ibiza' was the only track which took me a while to get into but Anne West did something a little different with this number though I'm sure it will be loved by most who listen to it. Ann West is a brilliant artist and this album is surely destined to become a popular release once on the shelves. Pop music at it's best. 9/10 - Street Voice News


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When Ann West awoke on the morning of her thirtieth birthday her life seemed perfect. She was a beautiful former model, living in an LA in a multi million dollar home with two gorgeous daughters. Growing up in working class Glasgow and Leicester was just a distant memory. Yet she woke up feeling depressed, empty as if she was living someone else’s life, three words drumming on the inside of her skull like a mantra. “This isn’t it… this isn’t it.”

That morning was the beginning of an extraordinary journey that has taken Ann from Malibu to India, the San Juan Islands, Kauai, Ibiza and Glastonbury. Following her spiritual awakening she turned away from her cosmopolitan lifestyle to study and then to teach. She has hosted talk radio shows, coerced the US Navy to cancel military exercises, become a Doctor of Metaphysical Science, received her PhD in Psychological Studies and written a book about her experiences in India. Despite all that Ann has always felt something was missing. That she was meant to sing.

Her debut album ‘Confidante’ has been a lifetime coming. It’s hard to describe her music without resorting to clichés but think a contemporary Carly Simon with pop sensibilities, Celtic melodies and a hint of Nashville craftsmanship. The album was recorded in London and Hawaii with seasoned musicians and overseen by producer David Tickle, who has worked with Prince, Peter Gabriel, U2, Split Enz, George Michael, Jackson Browne and Blondie.

Now backtrack a few years and several thousand miles to Pollock, Glasgow. Ann’s earliest memories are of music. “My mother and father had the most incredible voices and they would harmonise together. My great grandmother knew all the old vaudeville and Irish rebel songs. Granny would get the washboard out, one uncle would play the accordion, another the bagpipes, my dad was on the harmonica and my mum would play the spoons. Singing was just natural. It wasn’t something we did for money. It was just what we did.”

The West’s moved south to Leicester when Ann was six. Times were tight. “I wore hand me down clothes,” she says, “One winter we didn’t have enough wood to put on the fireplace.”

Ann was an intuitive – “I could walk into a room and know not to go near that person because I felt they were dark” - active and ambitious child. She loved ballet and was an excellent gymnast but couldn’t pursue either because there was no money. “I had some looks,” she says, “and my aunties kept saying to me ‘you should be a model’.” One afternoon she plucked up the courage, got off the bus and enrolled at a local model school, paying for her course by working nights in a scrap yard.

When she was 17, rejecting the career officer’s suggestion that she become a shop assistant, Ann took a train to London. She looked up a model agency in the phone book, found her way there on the tube and sat in reception, heart in her throat, clutching her “portfolio”, a book of snapshots she’d done for a local Boots. A photographer came in, saw her sitting there and she suddenly found herself with both a job and an agent.

Modelling she realised was her way to a better life and for the next few years she worked constantly. “Catalogue work, swim wear, book covers, magazine covers. I came into the ring with Mohammed Ali wearing boxing shorts and gloves,” she says candidly. Whenever I went on shoots I’d start singing and the photographers would tell me ‘You should be singing.’”

When Ann left for California the red tops ran headlines like “Ann’s going West”. Truth was LA wasn’t really Ann’s town and after the epiphany on her birthday Ann knew something had to change. After a few weeks she decided to go to an ashram in the Himalayas. “When I got back, the experiences in India had been so expansive that I really didn’t fit into my old life,” she says simply. “I sat and meditated for five hours a day and just absorbed what happened.”

After her third trip to India Ann started teaching meditation and yoga and moved to the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest. She studied for her PhD in Spiritual Psychology while writing her book ‘Truth From The Source’. From her window Ann could see the orcas swimming through the channel and she formed a non-profit organisation, The Universal Cetacean Institute, to help protect whales and dolphins.

After moving to Kauai in Hawaii she hosted her own talk show on TV, ‘This Is It’ and started two radio shows – ‘Ann of Avalon’ and ‘Truth From The Source’ on KKCR where she interviewed everyone from Bill Clinton to Deepak Chopra and discussed: “metaphysical teachings and philosophies with great philosophers and spiritual teachers, quantum physicists, authors, doctors, scientists, environmentalists, marine biologists – anybody who’s done something in their life to help raise humanity’s consciousness.”

A passionate animal activist, Ann started working alongside the Natural Resource Defence Council (NRDC) to help stop the US Navy whose military low f