GARY Go and VV Brown have embarked on an eight-date co-headline tour this month, when they will perform songs from their debut albums at The Duchess in York tomorrow.

Gary Go released his first single, Wonderful, for Decca last month and has been confirmed as the opening act for Take That’s summer tour.

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Gary wrote his first song, Stomach Ground (about a village of people living on someone’s belly), at the age of eight. After leaving school at 17, he gained a lowly job at a studio making tea and setting up microphones.

The next few years were spent working at various studios, soaking up as much sonic knowledge as he could. He set up his own bedroom-run label The Canvas Room, produced some songs, released 500 copies of the So-So EP and started playing shows around London.

Gary then jumped at the chance to work and record in America at a legendary New Jersey studio and it was while staying in a room in the house where Frank Sinatra grew up at 841 Garden Street, New Jersey, that he composed several of the songs that would see him signed to Decca.

Retro soul diva, songwriter and producer VV Brown specialises in “doo-wop indie from outer space”, according to Marie-Claire magazine. Named in the Top Ten 10 of new artists for 2009 in the BBC Sounds poll, she issued her debut single, Leave, earlier this month on Island Records.

“Leave is about being intoxicated and confused by being in love and the conflict between listening to your heart and your mind,” she says. “My music is honest – it’s not about being festooned with £10m diamonds or having perfect hair.”

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