Desire Avenue

sound world wrote: If you look in the comments under his blog, a couple of people have asked about that photo (one of them called 'Alex' )
etc.

Still no reply from the blog owner

I've had no reply to my email either.

RobB wrote:Another suggestion from the Kate message boards.....

Susanna Hoffs





Different make of guitar but.....?

Hmm. It could be, but again, the hair is different and the face shape seems different too. This is the likeliest one so far, though.

On a side note, who knew Susanna Hoffs was still playing?!

Another suggestion has been made.........Natalie Merchant.

Unfortunately i can't find a 'live performance' image of Natalie at the right angle nor can i even find a photo of Natalie playing a guitar in concert.

I dunno .... Natalie doesn't seem quite right, but as you say it's hard to make a proper comparison unless you're seeing the face at a similar angle.

Stina, can you just put us out of our misery and TELL us whether it's you?

I've never seen Natalie play the guitar in her concerts. She is mostly playing piano. I just checked the linernotes of the albums (I'm a fan of Natalie) and she is never credited for playing guitar.

I would be very surprised if it would be Natalie on the photograph.

blue wrote:Stina, can you just put us out of our misery and TELL us whether it's you?

yeah,come on Stina, don't be shy........we won't tell anyone! [angel]

Whoever that is, it's not Stina.

Clues that lead me to this conclusion:

* her nose is too big
* her jaw is too square
* she's playing a red electric guitar onstage while wearing a big crinolene gypsy dress for feck's sake

zoot wrote:Whoever that is, it's not Stina.

Clues that lead me to this conclusion:

* her nose is too big

You call that a big nose? Blimey. It's cute as a button, a characteristic it shares with Stina's.

* her jaw is too square

Stina does have a rather square jaw, going by the pics I've seen of her, anyway.

* she's playing a red electric guitar onstage while wearing a big crinolene gypsy dress for feck's sake

We know! It doesn't fit with what we think we know of her. But none of us actually know her, or much about her, so we can't say definitely that she's never played electric guitar on a stage whilst wearing a gypsy dress.


PS I don't think they make crinolene anymore, it'll be some sort of viscose mix.

Other names have been put forward....
Edwina Hayes
Nina Nastasia
........and one of the Corrs.

Ooh, it could be a Corr! Do they play guitars? The one that sings has got the right sort of hair/face shape. Maybe we should post it on a Corrs fanboard.

Rob, I'll leave that to you.

Andrea Corr:

Btw,i think i should make clear that when i mentioned 'one of the Corrs'...... i wasn't talking about the bloke.

I don't think its one of the Corrs sisters as none appear to play the guitar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_corrs

Oh, I was pretty much convinced there it was Andrea Corr - apart from the hair/face shape similarities, she seems to have a penchant for sleeveless tops with lace-up bodices, which I think is what the woman in the picture is wearing, paired with a gypsy skirt.

Well, I give up then. We'll likely never know who it is, unless the bootleg from the Seekrit Stina Unofficial Private Gig (SSHHH!!) eventually surfaces.

Yet another name has been suggested on the kate Bush forum......

Susan Tedeschi.......who i must admit i've never heard of before.