p2pnet.net news:- England’s Kate Walsh, 23, is about to become a huge star.

And Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA, the members of the Big 4 Organised Music cartel, have had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.

Forget the Big 4. Thanks largely to their own efforts or, rather, the lack of them, coupled with their continuing vicious attacks on their own customers, they’re as good as dead.

But online, independent music is thriving, giving artists a chance to let people see and hear what they can do, and without having to spend a penny on expensive studio demos, made in the hope of catching the ear of some doped-up Big Music exec.

One of the criticisms levelled at online home-made music (often by the labels who definitely don’t want so-called ‘amateur’ musicians to succeed by themselves) is: there’s so much of it, how can you hear it all.

But its the same in the 21st century as it’s always been. Cream rises to the top, and hard work and imagination help. Kate Walsh, originally from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, but now living in Brighton, proves it.

Head on over to her MySpace site for an initial listen, and then tune into her song Fireworks on YouTube.

iTunes is about all there is as far as corporate music downloads go, and that isn’t saying a lot. But Walsh has, “built up a fan base by putting her music onto her MySpace page,” says ThisIsLondon.

Now her Tim’s House album has topped the iTunes download album chart, says the story.

And she doesn’t even own an iPod.

If there has to be a criticism, it’s that she’s achieving her success through iTunes, where fans will have to fork out a rip-off $1 for a download.

Hopefully, now she’s been able to see what she can do herself, she’ll soon realise which way is really up and with the iTunes behind her, literally, will launch her own site, selling her music herself without a corporate middle-man, and without getting involved with one or other of the Big 4.

“I set up my own record label called Blueberry Pie and just got the music out there,” ThisIsLondon has her saying. “It’s pretty easy. Anyone can do it.”

And she’s right. Anyone can.

(Cheers, William)

JN

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ThisIsLondon - The songbird who’s outselling Take That with her homemade album, April 9, 2007

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