"Starmaker" is born!!
Worldview's Oliver Shaw now has a pure pop, potentially lucrative side-project, in which he attempts to furnish the stars of tomorrow with furnishings, and also with high-grade pop songs in a variety of genres. He will be known for this purpose by the modest moniker Starmaker, thus distancing himself from involvement in anything quite so mainstream, in much the same way as Martin McGuinness continues to give his token denials of I.R.A. membership.
Speaking through a balaclava in a rather muffled voice to a crowded press hall, Shaw gave the following statement:
"Now that Indie music is mainstream and drenched in middle-of-the-road stadium navel-gazing and pretend-street urchin postering, perhaps Pop music is the new rock'n'roll. (It's far more credible, think of Girls Aloud - no, their MUSIC, you sleaze.) The musical boffin and repentant Rock artiste behind Starmaker thinks it is, and the fact that there is more money in it is naturally beside the point. Seeing that his own Woody Allen-meets-Oasis-who-then-bump-into-Mark Thomas-who-is-having-a-pint-with-New Order offerings are proving an acquired taste perhaps best left to posterity, this multi-talented, single-celled bedroom maestro has now set himself the arguably greater and more worthy task of attempting to give the public what the public wants, whether they want it or not. He has painstakingly dashed off these deceptively simple Pop nuggets in a variety of well-known styles, putting them through the hitsongscience.com website just to be sure, which he now releases into the atmosphere F.A.O. all present and future pop svengali's, compilers of feelgood compilations, and airbrushed starlets of tomorrow who are currently singing into their hairbrushes while psyching themselves up for ritual humilation in front of post-modern panto villain Simon Cowell. The self-styled Starmaker may sound like he is joshing about a bit, but his perfect pop project is in DEADLY earnest. (Just ask his bank manager.) Starmaker's true identity is a closely-guarded secret; it is known only that he comes from Oxford and is not in Coldplay, but used to know someone who is."
Here are some Starmaker tracks; shorter edits of some can be found at the new Myspace, www.myspace.com/starmakersongs.
