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With an expansive solo tour underway which will be followed by a support slot on the upcoming Noisettes tour, Tiffany Page looks set to make the upcoming year, possibly the upcoming decade her own. Moving into any new decade has a degree of gravitas, but the first few formative weeks of 2010 will undoubtedly be met with as much apprehension as it is anticipation. 2010 could truly be a year of the monumental. Take, for example, young Ms. Page’s January; a mammoth 17 dates across the country in the space of twenty-something days. A rather decorous way to shed the post-Christmas pounds & sooth the post-New year hangover.

Tiffany has spent her formative years honing her brand of iambic pop on both sides of the Atlantic, an exercise which has been incorporated into the sound she has chosen to adopt. An unabashed penchant for melody has allowed Ms. Page to deconstruct many of the clichés around rock & roll. True enough, many of the age old song topics arise; love, lust, make-ups & break-ups all rear their respectively ugly heads, but Tiffany creates narratives around these topics that are easily digestible to the musical dietary system.

The bricoláge of classic British rhythm & blues and American new wave is transformed into polished pop nuggets that have secured Tiffany a record with major players Mercury, through which her debut will be available in the coming months. Possibly the best way of trying to appreciate Page’s songs is through the following metaphor; Tiffany Page sounds like the offspring one, or both, of The Rolling Stones guitar-smiths & Chrissy Hynde following an intense course of drug rehabilitation, percussively punctuated guitar playing underpins Page’s sensual singing which is as thick as treacle & as smooth as chocolate, and with far fewer calories, one does not have to feel guilty about indulging in Tiffany’s serenading as one would about a chocolate binge. The Stones’ influence can be heard particularly  distinctly on ‘walk away slow’, which bears an uncanny resemblance to ‘I’m Free’, but it seems not so much a cynical reworking of a classic, more a subtly inclination towards rock classicism, and the track doesn’t suffer because of it.

As Christmas draws ever  closer, the glut will soon ensue. be prepared to consume an inordinate amount of calories, watch an unfortunate amount of TV and ingest close to one’s body volume in alcohol. So, as a sobering reminder to the amount of untapped talent there is out there, give Tiffany Page a blast, this could be the last time you’ll able to catch her in an intimate setting. The pieces are set for Tiffany to blow-up this year.