 The postponed European dates have now been rescheduled to 2014 .
You'll be pleased to read that Lisa and her band will be on the road next May promoting SEVEN. The tickets remain valid and some new dates have been added in Germany and Italy with the possibility of some further dates. Watch this space!
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Lisa talks to Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick on how she got together with Ian and other stuff…. Lisa Stansfield was one of Britain’s biggest female stars of the Eighties and Nineties. On the eve of her return to music she tells Neil McCormick about the creation of her most famous song. Back in 1989, you couldn’t escape the sound of Stansfield’s soulful hit, All Around The World, with its insistent hook, “been around the world and I – I – I – I can’t find my baby.” It was number one in the UK, and number three in the US, and led on to a career in which she sold over twenty million albums and scored a dozen international hit singles, including Change, All Woman and People Hold On. The Manchester born singer and actress had been making records since 1980 but didn’t achieve success until she hooked up with an old school friend, Ian Devaney. It was he who came up with the music for Been Around The World but couldn’t think of any words. “We came up with ‘been around the world’ and I just couldn’t think of anything else,” recalls Stansfield. “So I kept singing I-I-I and we all started laughing ‘cause it was so ridiculous. Then after a while we just said, ‘It’s actually quite good.’” The irony is that, while she became a star singing about searching for love, it turns out the love of her life was in the studio with her. “I had him along,” she says. “It’s (like) a great work of fiction.” Stansfield and Devaney attended the same secondary school in Manchester, along with future band mate Andy Morris. At the age of 14, Stansfield won a singing competition and signed to Polydor but her solo career never took off and she became a children’s TV presenter on ITV’s Razzamatazz and The Krankie’s Klub. “Ian was the person who made me realise I could write songs,” recounts Stansfield, as she tells the tale of how they met again. She was on a date with a man she had met in a club “and, I’m really sorry to say this, but he was one of the most boring people I’ve ever met in my life. He’s showing me his holiday pictures, it’s so vile when people do that!” Devaney and Morris happened to walk into the same pub where Stansfield was enduring her date from hell. “I’d not seen Ian for maybe five years. And I just went ‘help!’ So that night we all got talking and I think the guy left and we didn’t even realise that he’d gone.” Devaney and Morris were struggling musicians and when Stansfield told them she wanted to get back into music, Devaney suggested she write her own songs. “I said, ‘I’ve never written a song in my life.’ And then I went home and I thought well, I can at least try and see what happens.’ She wrote her first song and later sang it to Devaney, who enthused about how great it was. “And I thought he was taking the mickey and I just stormed off!” laughs Stansfield. Devaney had been genuinely impressed, however, and made a backing track on his home recording system. “I’d never heard anything like it, it was incredible,” says Stansfield. “And that’s basically when we decided to make music.” Stansfield, Devaney and Morris formed Blue Zone in 1984, releasing a series of dance single before deciding to concentrate on Stansfield’s solo career, to great success. Stansfield married an Italian designer, Augusto Grassi, in 1987 but the relationship was short lived and a new romance blossomed behind the mixing desk. “(Ian) was living with someone, I was married. There was always this sort of sexual tension between us, and when we both got prospective partners we let our guards down, we really did get a lot closer, we talked about our own relationships and ended up completely falling head over heels for each other.” The couple were married in 1989. After a hectic decade of stardom, which she admits she didn’t always enjoy, the couple moved to Ireland and took some time off, a break that stretched into nearly ten years. Stansfield has been acting (appearing in the film The Edge Of Love with Keira Knightley and various TV and stage productions) but says she “always wanted to come back.” This year, she began performing live again, and this month released a new single, “Can’t Dance’. A new album, Seven, her first since 2004, will be released in 2014. Stansfield admits to being a bit nervous about her return. “I’m looking forward to it hopefully working out. I don’t want to continue if people don’t want me. I really want to enjoy it this time.” Now watch the interview with Lisa Geoff Dorsett and Adrian Colis interview Lisa about her forthcoming album Seven and her tour as well as what it was like to be acting alongside Ricky Tomlinson in the film 'Northern Soul'.
Listen back on their chat by clicking the MP3 file below. European tour dates have now been postponed to tie in with the new ‘Seven’ release date of February 3rd 2014.
For those of you who have already purchased tickets, these tickets will still be valid for the rescheduled date. Please note that "the UK dates are still going ahead".
The tickets will remain valid for the new dates. More updates soon about the new Italian dates too. Sarah Cox meets up with one of her teenage icons, the lovely Lisa Stansfield. They chat about her background and how she initially got into the music industry and then onto the TV. Lisa talks about forming a band with her husband Ian and the scary move to being a solo artist. Lisa also get to choose her favourite tune from the 80's.   A message from Lisa:
"As some of you may have already heard, my new album ‘Seven’ will now be released in the new year. I have been working on this album for quite some time and I want to make it absolutely perfect before you all hear it. I really can’t wait wait for you to hear the finished project in the new year and to play the new songs live for you this year" Lisa x (As of 10th December 2013 the expected release date has moved again from February 3rd to February 10th 2014 in the U.K and still announced as January 31st i2014 n Germany. No news as yet for a global release) Following her sell out European tour earlier this year Lisa Stansfield is releasing her long awaited new album Seven on the 7th of October 2013. Lisa attends the Pride of Britain awards at Grosvenor House on October 7, 2013 in London, England. |
