“Gobby, confident and full of throwaway remarks, yet deeply thoughtful, Ida’s pop songs are the only way that she has found to connect with the wider world…A self–styled nihilist who loves a drink, she’s throwing everything at the wall while she still can - and expects every single band on the planet to do exactly the same.” Time Out
Ida Maria is a 23 year old Norwegian singer-songwriter-guitarist who combines the songwriting suss of early Strokes and the fearlessness of Iggy Pop with a voice that has been compared to Janis Joplin yet also echoes the other-worldly strangeness of Björk.
Following on from two limited edition singles on her own label, Nesna Records - ‘Oh My God’ and ‘Drive Away My Heart’, both favourites of Radio1/6Music DJ Steve Lamacq - ‘Stella’ is the first Waterfall/RCA single from Ida Maria and tells the story of God giving the world away to a 43-year-old prostitute from Manhattan in return for a night with her. Ida Maria will be performing ‘Stella’ and other tracks on Later With Jools Holland, transmitting on BBC2 on Friday 8th February.
Now living in Stockholm, Sweden, Ida (pronounced Eee-da) Maria grew up in Nesna, a tiny university town in the north of Norway with a population of 1,776, one gas station, one pub, one closed-down shoe factory and lots of mountains. It's near the Arctic Circle, which means that it's in perpetual darkness for half of the year.
An utterly absorbing, totally unselfconscious front woman (“A fizzing yelping ball of Nordic excitement”, Dazed & Confused) Ida Maria gives everything when she plays live, where she is joined by her band - Stefan Törnby on lead guitar, Johannes Lindberg on bass, and Olle Lundin on drums. Already filling out dirty dives from Camden to Shoreditch, make sure you catch her at one of her live shows in February:
February 2007
Fri 15th Club 229, 229 Great Portland St W1 (supporting The Raveonettes)
Tues 26th Astoria W1 (NME Awards Shows, supporting Young Knives)
The debut album from Ida Maria will be released in the summer.
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