【British Vision】Issue 20 新颖独特的歌迷见面会

...in the summer. OK see you then.

See you then.Now for most struggling singers, reaching a new audience / involves travelling the country / in a clapped-out transit¹ van, playing on small stages in the back of a local pub, but not for 24-year-old Sandi Thom. Inspired by Internet-based success of the Sheffield band, the Arctic Monkeys, Sandi set up a webcam in her basement flat in South London. 70 people logged on for her first performance . But two weeks on, the nightly audience is over 120,000. Harry² Fawcett reports.

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It might look like a basement rehearsal³ space, but this is a concert venue⁴ which at last count held an audience of 128,000.

Since we're on a journey, and be that so be, and there won't be a uphill struggle on.....

Sandi Thom and her band mates have been trying for that big break for the last 3 years. Suddenly in the last 2 weeks and from the comfortless flat and less than glamorous⁵ Tooting, they're on the verge⁶ of it.

We dream of playing to, playing in Wembley, or wherever, you know, playing to the massive crowds. It's so, it's quite surreal, because we are already doing that, but we just don't physically⁷ see(ing) it, you know and see, got us fun from 9-inch Sophocles(Sophocles可能是一个电脑牌子), doing all of us the gigs, otherwise you can get a bit, kind of wait and start to make cups of tea when the toilet suffers with this.

Apart from a -half -dozen -or- so fans who come to see her live, her website even offers them beds for the night. This is what the concert looks like for Sandi's mushily audience. But this isn't entirely⁸ a DIY effort. Sandi's record label drafted in a web company with access to 16,000 computer servers to host the virtual concerts. Otherwise the sheer number of viewers would have crashed the webcast. The massive success of the Arctic Monkeys who've aslo used the Internet to circumvent⁹ the usual industrial rules was one source of inspiration. Inernet marketing¹⁰ means bypassing or the plugging, giging and PR and going straight to the consumer. The virtual audience's made up of real people after all, who it hoped will buy real records.

I, I, I've, I haven't heard about them in the last couple of weeks, but since, since seeing them, since seeing them on the Internet, definetely, I think that they're fantastic and like to give them some of the fun.

Oh! I wish I was a punk rocker girl with flowers in my hair...

And surprisingly Sandi's re-releasing her Johnny Mitutinge's (估计是个音乐制作人，或是发行公司) first single and the concert's finished / next week, hoping to make the most of all interest they generated on the web and in the media. Her debut¹¹ album will follow in April that the big record labels are rumoured¹² to be circling.

when it does kind of, sort of wind up new doors of album, over the space of 24 hours, then everything changes. It's just a bit, it's quite crazy. yes. (It's been quite frightening as well.) Yes, uhm...It's very exciting, it's, it's, it's, but it's, it's, for it's yeah, it's, it's scary, but it's, it's good, it's good scary.

And if you want to tune¹³ in Sandi's gig tonight, all the details're on our website. If you're doing the same thing, maybe let us know.....

1 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

2 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

3 rehearsal   

n.排练，排演；练习

参考例句：

• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
• You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。

4 venue   

n.犯罪地点，审判地，管辖地，发生地点，集合地点

参考例句：

• The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
• The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。

5 glamorous   

adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的

参考例句：

• The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
• It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。

6 verge   

n.边，边缘；v.接近，濒临

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。

7 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

8 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

9 circumvent   

vt.环绕，包围；对…用计取胜，智胜

参考例句：

• Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty.军事策略家们企图绕开这一条约。
• Any action I took to circumvent his scheme was justified.我为斗赢他的如意算盘而采取的任何行动都是正当的。

10 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

11 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

12 rumoured   

adj.谣传的；传说的；风

参考例句：

• It has been so rumoured here. 此间已有传闻。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• It began to be rumoured that the jury would be out a long while. 有人传说陪审团要退场很久。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

13 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。