The Year of the Vickers

I would just like to express how completely and utterly proud I am right now, to call Diana Vickers my idol! 

 

Diana has admittedly been quite quiet over the past couple of years; people assumed she'd disappeared completely, given up on music, when in actual fact she's spent these few years working her butt off to create a new sound for herself that is truly hers and to try her hand at other talents!

 

She's spent a lot of time in studios writing for other artists as well as for herself, and recording her new material alongside beautiful covers. She's designed clothes for Very, done a spot of presenting on shows such as Blue Peter and The Crush, filmed for an upcoming TV series and landed her very first acting role in a film. She's supported Olly Murs on his Summer shows, which she will also be doing this year, she has been confirmed for T in the Park and V Festival, with hopefully more announcements on the way. Her 4th single Cinderella will be released on 21st July, with the music video surfacing today! Her long awaited second album will be released in September this year, and will most definitely be worth the wait!

 

Throughout the time Diana has been slightly out of the public eye, she has made sure to keep in contact with her fans, via tweets, Q&As, small intimate gigs, and making sure she keeps us as up to date as possible.

 

It's been a rollercoaster journey for her to reach this point, but finally things are coming together for her!

 

2013 is clearly The Year of the Vickers.

Cinderella

Miss Vickers is officially BACK.

Diana debuted her new music video at midnight, continuing with the Cinderella theme.

You can watch right here!



There's not a whole lot I can add about the video itself, I think it really speaks for itself. Diana looks absolutely beautiful, and appears a lot more confident than people may have been expecting. She's come a long way from the nervous 16 year old she was on The X Factor.

I genuinely wish Diana all the best with this single, it certainly has the potential to do well with the right sort of backing, and considering Diana has an incredibly loyal fan-base, this shouldn't be an issue.

Welcome back Diana!

Behind the Scenes

I will admit when I saw this video pop up on Vimeo, I thought they were going to be behind the scenes of Diana's Cinderella music video shoot. Sadly that's not the case. However, this is still a pretty sweet video.
Diana did some secret filming at the start of 2012, which no one ever saw anything from since except for a few pictures. Well, this is the most we've seen so far in the form of a behind the scenes video. Click here to watch. Diana looks gorgeous, and sounds as beautiful as ever performing 4 songs from her album: Music to Make Boys Cry, Kiss of a Bullet, Dead Heat, and Smoke. Enjoy.

Give Out Girls

A couple of new photos from Give Out Girls have surfaced online! Full credit to their owner(s).

Instagram Tuesday

I am so bad at remembering to do these, sorry!
Also just thought I'd quickly mention if you missed Diana's radio interview on Sunday, you can still listen to it here. and Matt Edmondson mentioned that there will be some extra little bits featuring Diana on next week's show too so make sure you tune in.

On to the Instagram photos - although recently Diana has been posting her photos onto twitter or facebook more so you will probably have already seen most - if not all - of these.

1. In costume for Give Out Girls

2. Ready for Warehouse's Summer Party (you can read a short interview from this party here)

3. Evidently discovered the wigs

4. Looking stunning on a shoot with Bliss magazine

5. And again after the curls have dropped a little

6. Lippy Lou

7. Looking happy with the boyfriend on the way to her DJ set

8. DJ Vicks in action

9. On the way to Radio 1

 

 

During Diana's DJ set the other day, George posted a couple of short videos on twitter which you can watch here and here if you wish. 

Instagram Saturday

Here we go let's catch up.

1. Diana's (Gemma's) trailer

2. Champagne on the roof with some of the cast

3. Biccie break

4. Kiki's majestic Lion King pose.

5. Dressing room flowers

6. Cutie

7. Back home for a flying visit, and to tidy up?

8. Reunited with Kiki (I love Diana's nails here).

9. Nice night in.



Acoustics

I've been kind of absent from this blog lately, sorry! I still have an Instagram Monday to do as well, I'll do it in a minute!

I just wanted to make sure you'd all heard Diana's beautiful acoustic songs she's uploaded to YouTube.

She's done an acoustic version of her brand new single Cinderella.



And a stunning cover of Naughty Boy's La La La, which I'm a little bit in love with.



Enjoy!