Weve been "Waiting" for the new Betsy track and here it is!

Tuesday 31st January 2017

Waiting

Release date: TBC Label: Warner Brothers

BETSY has premiered new single 'Waiting', which is available today via Warner Brothers UK/Columbia Records US. This follows the success of breakout recent single 'Wanted More', which has surpassed 2 million streams, picked up support across Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6Music and - along with early tracks 'Lost & Found' and 'Fair' - seen BETSY go top 5 in Spotify's UK & US Viral Charts. Having played a series of sold-out London shows - Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen - expect news of live dates and BETSY’s debut album to follow soon.  

Affecting and uplifting, 'Waiting', writes BETSY, "is about that fire and excitement you feel when you meet someone new, fall hook, line and sinker, and it feels like you've been waiting your whole life for them. Hopeless romantic, me!”

BETSY is now putting the finishing touches to her debut album, which will dig deeper into her unlikely musical background. She was born on a goose farm in rural Wales, finding her voice from campfire sing-alongs and the local eisteddfod (where she boldly covered Rage Against The Machine) to the powerhouse vocalists within her parents’ vintage record collection. Keen to pursue a career in music - but knowing nobody in the industry - she was encouraged by her hard-working family to find a fall-back, and moved to London to study fashion design at Central St Martins. One distraction led to another when BETSY was invited to design catwalk for the esteemed Balenciaga in Paris: an intense, exhilarating experience filled with fascinating characters, but one that ultimately ate into her songwriting. And so BETSY returned to Wales, swapping what many of her peers deemed the job of a lifetime for a grotty caravan in her brother’s garden (which you can glimpse across much of her artwork).

Soon, there was no stopping her – BETSY furiously set about making music again, teaching herself the art of GarageBand and essentially challenging herself to write her way out of the caravan. People got an early glimpse via a collaboration with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, who reworked BETSY’s early solo demo of ‘Endless Love’ into the pair’s acclaimed single. The caravan’s door was then firmly kicked down in 2016, with acclaimed early singles 'Fair', 'Lost & Found' and 'Wanted More'. Blowing up vulnerable, intimate moments into widescreen and empowering pop, 'Waiting' confirms BETSY as one of the year's stand-out new voices. 

And thanks to the guys at Warner Brothers, you guys have this amazing record to smash out to the max. We LOVE Betsy and this is such an amazing record so please help us spread the good word and push this to the MAX! Mixes to follow

Craig & Scott

Posted by Craig Jones