Simon Stirling is a 17 year old singer/ songwriter from Bromley, Kent. He is currently writing his first EP- Acorn, He is a hit on sound cloud with views reaching the thousands, this summer he is set to play at a variety of small town festivals, and currently he is on a variety of radio stations, we chose him as he is firstly unsigned, both of us like his music and also he seems to be willing to put the time and effort in as he has been trying hard by himself to get his name known.
We have chosen Simon because not only has Danny got personal contact with him, which saves us less time going through the long permission procedure and copyright process. Moreover, the style of Simon's music is seems to be a popular genre from observing the charts. For example, artist that Simon Stirling has been compared to; Ed Sheeran, Passenger, and Ben Howard have overpowered the charts in the last few months, therefore from secondary sources, this informs us that it would be a sensible move to go forward with Simon's style of music. Additionally, throughout our initial research of possible artists to involve within our group music video, we undertook secondary research to obtain a idea of the artist's fanbase/reception. Overall we found that through the social network websites; "Twitter", "Facebook", "Youtube", and "Soundcloud" specifically that Simon has a extremely loyal fanbase, increasing constantly, resulting him to now debut his first album; "Acorn". Moreover, the large amount of positive reception towards Simon's music, his unique individual image that appeals to our adolescent audience, as well as his popular genre of acoustic folk music which seems to be popular through similar artists within the charts at the moment, has concluded to why we have chosen Simon Stirling to be our subject artist.
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