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Holiday Sidewinder

Holiday Sidewinder Carmen-Sparks is an Australian-born indie pop singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She was the founding lead singer of Bridezilla (2005–13). After that group disbanded Sidewinder relocated to England to start her solo career. Her debut album, Forever or Whatever, appeared in October 2019.

Holiday Sidewinder
Birth nameHoliday Sidewinder Carmen-Sparks
Born (1990-12-21) 21 December 1990 (age 32)
Sydney, Australia
GenresPop
Occupation(s)
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • keyboards
Years active2005–present
LabelsPersonal Best
Websiteholidaysidewinder.com

Early years Edit

Sidewinder was born on 21 December 1990 and raised in Sydney.[1] Her mother, Lo Carmen, is a country soul singer-songwriter and actor, originally from Adelaide; while her step-father, Aden Young is a Canadian-Australian actor.[1] Carmen and Young have had two other children.[2] Her father, Jeremy Sparks, Carmen's then-partner, was a film set constructor and later worked as an engineer on the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony (2000), festivals and large public artworks (including Halo).[3][4][5] In October 2019 she reflected on her upbringing, "I was raised by a colourful family completely entrenched in the entertainment industry; a complex group of eccentric individuals. My mother was a teenage actress who sang in bands, my dad was a set builder. My mother left my father for a wonderful woman (who was a singer). They raised me in the red light district of Darlinghurst in the 90s."[6] Sidewinder's step-mother is Australian actress, Claudia Karvan.[7][8] Since living together, Karvan and Sparks have had two other children.[8]

For secondary education, she attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and recalled working on music with a friend, "when we were 13 and both playing guitar, we started a band called Bridezilla."[6] Her grandfather, musician Peter Head, provided the band's name.[9]

Bridezilla Edit

Sidewinder, on lead vocals and guitar, formed Bridezilla in Sydney in 2005 with Josh Bush on drums, Pia May Courtley on lead guitar, Millie Hall on saxophone and keyboards, and Daisy Tulley on violin.[10][11] Bush was a childhood friend, while Courtley, Hall and Tulley all attended her high school.[11][12] They gained local popularity and were signed to Ivy League Records in 2007,[12][13] and with Inertia Recordings by 2009. The group played festivals and opened for the Dirty Three, John Cale (of the Velvet Underground), Wilco, Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), the Drones, Interpol, and Sia. Nick Cave selected them to play at the All Tomorrows Parties Festival[14] which he curated in Australia.[15]

They released a five-track self-titled extended play (November 2007),[16] a vinyl split single shared with the Tren Brothers (2019) and a sole full-length studio album, The First Dance (October 2009).[10] The album was co-produced by Mark Kramer and Chris Townend.[15] Their original material was co-written by all five members;[17] Courtley explained to Louise McClean of The Blackmail, "Our song writing style has changed so much since the EP and that natural progression to a more sophisticated platforms equals more hard work. An album's such a vast playing field and there's much more room for vulnerabilities, strengths and weaknesses to show themselves. I think the personality of a band really comes to the fore."[15] In 2010 the band went into hiatus for two years before resuming in mid-2012, they announced their imminent separation in December of that year and played their last show in the following month.[11][18]

Collaborations and other appearances Edit

In October 2009 Sidewinder appeared on Season 7, Episode 93 of SBS-TV's music quiz and trivia show, RocKwiz.[19][20] She performed a duet with Andrew Stockdale (of Wolfmother) on Stevie Nicks and Don Henley's 1981 song, "Leather & Lace".[19] Since then she has re-appeared on the show and also joined RocKwiz live tours.[21] From March to June 2010 on such a tour, she was recorded on solo cover versions of "Time" and "The Boat That I Row", and a duet with Dave Faulkner on "Pale Blue Eyes" on the album, RocKwiz National Tour 2010.[21] Another duet was with Glenn Richards on "Just Like Christmas", which was broadcast for the RocKwiz 2009 Christmas Special in December of that year, but it was not released until 2011 as part of The RocKwiz Christmas Album.[22] Her duet with Stockdale was issued on a DVD, Rockwiz Duets. With a Little Help from Our Friends. Volume IV, in 2014.[23]

On 15 August 2014, Personal Best Records (co-owned by Josh Beagley [her uncle] and Mike Di Francesco), issued a single, "Born on the Wind", as her collaboration with PBO (the label's in-house production team), which was also the label's first release.[6][24][25] It was co-written by Sidewinder, Beagley and Di Francesco.[26] She described her inspiration for the lyrics, "I'd just been given a ring from grandmother that my grandfather had given to her in 1966 inscribed with 'born on the wind, by the wrath of the sea, under the sky's infinity'. So I imagined their romance where they would go on long drives in Western Australia and gave myself some poetic license... I think my grandfather romantically summated her character pretty well."[24] Nic Kelly of project u described the track, "a dance-pop gem that sounds like it could easily fit on a Crystal Fighters album or maybe even a Van She one."[25]

She was the featured vocalist on the track, "Girl", by Stay Bless in 2015.[27] On 25 January 2016 she appeared on Jeremy Dylan's podcast, My Favorite Album, and talked about Bob Dylan's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. She had met Bob Dylan and Booker T. Jones, who plays bass guitar on that album.[28] From 2017 to 2019 she was a touring member of Australian musician Alex Cameron's backing band.[29] She provided keyboards and vocals live on Pitchfork's performance and interview series, Juan's Basement.[30] and performed live with the Killers.[31][32]

Holiday contributed a cover version of Darlene Love and Phil Spector's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" to Valentine Recording Presents: A Christmas Miracle (23 December 2018); a collaborative benefit album by various artists for victims of that year's California Wildfires with other contributions from Cameron, Mac Demarco, Jack Ladder, Kirin J. Callinan and Weyes Blood.[33][34] She is a guest vocalist on Callinan's album, Return to Center (June 2019), on the tracks "Life is Life" and "You Weren't in Love with Me", (for which she produced the accompanying music video, starring Andie MacDowell).[35][36] Fred Nicolson of The A List described the latter track, "[her] harmonies in the chorus are lush and add to the track's overall appeal."[36] She is a vocalist on Cameron's third studio album, Miami Memory (September 2019), for the tracks "Miami Memory", "Step-Dad" and "Divorce".[37]

Solo career Edit

Sidewinder relocated to London in late 2012 to pursue a solo pop career; she briefly returned to Bridezilla for their final dates.[38] She told Zac Bayly of Oyster magazine in August 2014, "The allure for me with pop music: it's universal and it shows that we're all human, that we all have these common feelings despite age, race, socio-economic backgrounds and all that. Pop is genuine. Although lots of pop songs are definitely calculated, there's something about the chemistry of them that gets a reaction from so many people."[38] She explained why she left Bridezilla, "working with a team can be limiting, you know? In a group it's such a democracy and you're working towards a common goal and whatever, but everything's so laboured. This has been really quite emancipating for me."[38]

In March 2014 she independently released a single, "Carousel", written with Mike Chapman (Blondie's producer) and shot the accompanying video on the Brighton Pier with choreographer Holly Blakey.[39][40] Pop Justice premiered the track, with a contributor saying, "it sounds both completely demented and extremely brilliant."[41] Robin Murray of Clash stated, "There's a sense of classicism here, in the way that Holiday can reconstitute languid, widescreen pop into something thrillingly new."[42] Australian singer-songwriter Sia tweeted about the single, revealing that she used to babysit Sidewinder. The Hairpin's Jia Tolentino wrote, "I read somewhere that having Sia Furler as your babysitter means that you are contractually obligated to produce great pop music for the rest of your life, which explains this new single from Holiday Sidewinder, very much a kooky, cotton-candy, retro-dream-pop jam."[43]

In March 2015 FBi Radio's Nicholas Watts interviewed Sidewinder and previewed her new material, including tracks with song writing and production team, Biffco; she described a song, "I wrote this in a church in the south of France, in the middle of a Sunflower field, having a kind of intercontinental love affair."[44] In December 2016 she released a cover version of East 17's Christmas track, "Stay Another Day". Clash premiered the video which she directed herself, Murray described its, "glacial synths and sun-washed vocals."[45] FMS-Mag's writer called it "another sparkling gem" from "a dreamy pop sensation."[46] In October 2017 she released a single, "Casino", via through Personal Best Records.[47] Sosefina Fuamoli of The AU Review observed, "this is a return we have been hanging out for ages... [it] heralds a new chapter for Holiday as she continues to mine the depths of some hectic psych infused disco pop and present a final result that is almost insatiably good."[47]

Paper's Justin Moran premiered the follow-up single, "Tra$h Can Luv", in February 2018, which he described: "Singer-songwriter [Sidewinder] has officially gone solo to become a global pop sensation... Her sound marries Debbie Harry nostalgia with Róisín Murphy experimentation, which comes together flawlessly on her new single.[48] In August of that year she released "Leo", which Zeba Blay of HuffPost felt was a "pop-esque anthem about being an unapologetic heaux."[49] The track appeared on Paper, together with an interview by Jhoni Jackson, where she explains, "I always write from experience and add a dose of fantasy. I was a hopeless and foolish romantic, frivolous cheater, and serial monogamist. Every relationship was bumper to bumper. So I am now conclusively (and for the foreseeable future) a free and empowered Sex-positive movement independent lover. Still learning though. Who knows what's next. Conflama for life, whether you like it or not."[50] Harry Webber of Life Without Andy noticed that it was, "Addressing the double standards that women experience when it comes to the world of dating, normalising behaviour that for some reason has different implications based on your gender, encouraging strength and erasing shame – [she] is clearly not afraid to examine the burning issues facing many women in the world today. However, expressing these ideas in a four minute bubblegum pop video is her true masterstroke."[51]

In May 2019 her single "Baby Oil" was released, which was featured in Guardian Australia's Nathan Jolly's 20 best Australian tracks of the month.[52] He explained, "[it] is so effervescent you'll need an insulin shot from all the sugar, with a Game Boy-esque riff, drum machines from an 80s-imagined future, and the same sex-positive message that has shone from her past few solo singles. The guitar solo that closes the song would be at home on the Purple Rain soundtrack, as would the sultry lyrics. 'Baby Oil' feels like sneaking into an R-rated movie or listening to Madonna records and wondering what it all means – but feeling it nonetheless."[52]

Sidewinder performed her original tracks, "Tra$h Can Luv", '"Baby-Oil", "Whispers" and "Leo" live on United Kingdom reality TV show, Made in Chelsea, Series 17 Episode 07.[53] In May 2019 the title track, "Forever or Whatever", from her debut album was released. The Line of Best Fit's Olivia Swash premiered the track and wrote, "[she] slams picture-perfect 'keeping up with the Joneses' lifestyles... her droll lyrics take a swipe at the assumption that a nuclear family is the culmination of happiness, singing of white picket fences and four-wheel drives."[54] She supported British rock band, the Feeling, on their twelfth anniversary tour of their debut album, Twelve Stops and Home.

Sidewinder's debut album, Forever or Whatever, appeared in October 2019 via Personal Best Records.[55] Album of the Year's correspondent, TheBravesDH, felt, "her first batch of songs that shows she can fit right in with those others [Cameron and Callinan] in terms of wit and humor. These are funny, catchy songs that owe a lot to the synth pop of the 80's."[56] Her second album Face of God followed in May 2021 on Lab78 Records, which was produced by Nick Littlemore (Lost Valentinos, Mercy Arms, Mika).[57] Sidewinder partly based its lyrics on Littlemore's poetry and diaries.[58] They made a rough recording of it over five days in a Hollywood studio, while Littlemore was also working on his indie project Two Leaves in 2016.[57][59] Littlemore later reworked it with New York-based studio musicians.[58] Face of God was described by Cat Woods of Audiofemme as "cosmic disco via transcendental dance, taking elements of psychedelic indie rock, electronica and new wave synths to result in a highly-referential, wholly new sonic playground."[57]

Personal life Edit

In 2017 she launched an exercise company, Lovercise, in London with her personal trainer and then-boyfriend, Sapan Sehgal, and British entertainer and broadcast journalist, Carolyn Owlett. It was described by Andrea Thompson of Marie Claire as a "bespoke fitness class focussed around matchmaking like-minded singles."[60] In an interview with Javita Lee of Black Magazine (NZ), in August 2018, she explained, "Well, I somehow ended up running a gym with my personal trainer (who became my boyfriend, of course). He was a Hindu Punjabi man and I lapped up his knowledge of Bollywood, muscles, and spirituality."[61]

Sidewinder was diagnosed with bi-polar II. She relocated to Hollywood late in 2017.[61] She later briefly lived in Estonia and then Cyprus before settling in Thailand, as from May 2021.[57]

Discography Edit

Albums Edit

List of albums
Title Album details
Forever or Whatever
  • Released: 4 October 2019
  • Label: Personal Best (PBRCD11)
  • Formats: CD, LP, DD, streaming
Face of God
  • Released: 21 May 2021
  • Label: Lab78
  • Formats: DD, streaming

Singles Edit

As lead artist Edit

Title Year Album
"Carousel"[62] 2014 non-album single
"Born on the Wind" (by Holiday Sidwinder and PBO)[63]
"Stay Another Day"[64] 2016
"Casino"[65] 2017 Forever or Whatever
"Tra$h Can Luv"[66] 2018
"Leo"[67]
"Whispers"[68]
"Baby Oil"[69] 2019
"Forever/Whatever"[70]
"Kokomo"[71] non-album single
"Another World"[72]
"Lazy GF"[73] 2020
"Twin Flames"[74]
"Red Right Hand"[75]
"The Real Tea"[76]
"Survive This"[77] 2021
"Into the Universe"[78] Face of God

As featured artist Edit

Title Year Album
"Girl" (Stay Bless featuring Holiday Sidewinder)[79] 2014 non-album single
"Come Close" (Blackpaw featuring Holiday Sidewinder)[80] 2021

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External links Edit

  • Official website

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Holiday Sidewinder Carmen Sparks is an Australian born indie pop singer songwriter musician and record producer She was the founding lead singer of Bridezilla 2005 13 After that group disbanded Sidewinder relocated to England to start her solo career Her debut album Forever or Whatever appeared in October 2019 Holiday SidewinderBirth nameHoliday Sidewinder Carmen SparksBorn 1990 12 21 21 December 1990 age 32 Sydney AustraliaGenresPopOccupation s MusicianproducerInstrument s VocalsguitarkeyboardsYears active2005 presentLabelsPersonal BestWebsiteholidaysidewinder wbr com Contents 1 Early years 2 Bridezilla 3 Collaborations and other appearances 4 Solo career 5 Personal life 6 Discography 6 1 Albums 6 2 Singles 6 2 1 As lead artist 6 2 2 As featured artist 7 References 8 External linksEarly years EditSidewinder was born on 21 December 1990 and raised in Sydney 1 Her mother Lo Carmen is a country soul singer songwriter and actor originally from Adelaide while her step father Aden Young is a Canadian Australian actor 1 Carmen and Young have had two other children 2 Her father Jeremy Sparks Carmen s then partner was a film set constructor and later worked as an engineer on the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony 2000 festivals and large public artworks including Halo 3 4 5 In October 2019 she reflected on her upbringing I was raised by a colourful family completely entrenched in the entertainment industry a complex group of eccentric individuals My mother was a teenage actress who sang in bands my dad was a set builder My mother left my father for a wonderful woman who was a singer They raised me in the red light district of Darlinghurst in the 90s 6 Sidewinder s step mother is Australian actress Claudia Karvan 7 8 Since living together Karvan and Sparks have had two other children 8 For secondary education she attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and recalled working on music with a friend when we were 13 and both playing guitar we started a band called Bridezilla 6 Her grandfather musician Peter Head provided the band s name 9 Bridezilla EditMain article Bridezilla Sidewinder on lead vocals and guitar formed Bridezilla in Sydney in 2005 with Josh Bush on drums Pia May Courtley on lead guitar Millie Hall on saxophone and keyboards and Daisy Tulley on violin 10 11 Bush was a childhood friend while Courtley Hall and Tulley all attended her high school 11 12 They gained local popularity and were signed to Ivy League Records in 2007 12 13 and with Inertia Recordings by 2009 The group played festivals and opened for the Dirty Three John Cale of the Velvet Underground Wilco Stephen Malkmus Pavement the Drones Interpol and Sia Nick Cave selected them to play at the All Tomorrows Parties Festival 14 which he curated in Australia 15 They released a five track self titled extended play November 2007 16 a vinyl split single shared with the Tren Brothers 2019 and a sole full length studio album The First Dance October 2009 10 The album was co produced by Mark Kramer and Chris Townend 15 Their original material was co written by all five members 17 Courtley explained to Louise McClean of The Blackmail Our song writing style has changed so much since the EP and that natural progression to a more sophisticated platforms equals more hard work An album s such a vast playing field and there s much more room for vulnerabilities strengths and weaknesses to show themselves I think the personality of a band really comes to the fore 15 In 2010 the band went into hiatus for two years before resuming in mid 2012 they announced their imminent separation in December of that year and played their last show in the following month 11 18 Collaborations and other appearances EditIn October 2009 Sidewinder appeared on Season 7 Episode 93 of SBS TV s music quiz and trivia show RocKwiz 19 20 She performed a duet with Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother on Stevie Nicks and Don Henley s 1981 song Leather amp Lace 19 Since then she has re appeared on the show and also joined RocKwiz live tours 21 From March to June 2010 on such a tour she was recorded on solo cover versions of Time and The Boat That I Row and a duet with Dave Faulkner on Pale Blue Eyes on the album RocKwiz National Tour 2010 21 Another duet was with Glenn Richards on Just Like Christmas which was broadcast for the RocKwiz 2009 Christmas Special in December of that year but it was not released until 2011 as part of The RocKwiz Christmas Album 22 Her duet with Stockdale was issued on a DVD Rockwiz Duets With a Little Help from Our Friends Volume IV in 2014 23 On 15 August 2014 Personal Best Records co owned by Josh Beagley her uncle and Mike Di Francesco issued a single Born on the Wind as her collaboration with PBO the label s in house production team which was also the label s first release 6 24 25 It was co written by Sidewinder Beagley and Di Francesco 26 She described her inspiration for the lyrics I d just been given a ring from grandmother that my grandfather had given to her in 1966 inscribed with born on the wind by the wrath of the sea under the sky s infinity So I imagined their romance where they would go on long drives in Western Australia and gave myself some poetic license I think my grandfather romantically summated her character pretty well 24 Nic Kelly of project u described the track a dance pop gem that sounds like it could easily fit on a Crystal Fighters album or maybe even a Van She one 25 She was the featured vocalist on the track Girl by Stay Bless in 2015 27 On 25 January 2016 she appeared on Jeremy Dylan s podcast My Favorite Album and talked about Bob Dylan s Pat Garrett amp Billy the Kid She had met Bob Dylan and Booker T Jones who plays bass guitar on that album 28 From 2017 to 2019 she was a touring member of Australian musician Alex Cameron s backing band 29 She provided keyboards and vocals live on Pitchfork s performance and interview series Juan s Basement 30 and performed live with the Killers 31 32 Holiday contributed a cover version of Darlene Love and Phil Spector s Christmas Baby Please Come Home to Valentine Recording Presents A Christmas Miracle 23 December 2018 a collaborative benefit album by various artists for victims of that year s California Wildfires with other contributions from Cameron Mac Demarco Jack Ladder Kirin J Callinan and Weyes Blood 33 34 She is a guest vocalist on Callinan s album Return to Center June 2019 on the tracks Life is Life and You Weren t in Love with Me for which she produced the accompanying music video starring Andie MacDowell 35 36 Fred Nicolson of The A List described the latter track her harmonies in the chorus are lush and add to the track s overall appeal 36 She is a vocalist on Cameron s third studio album Miami Memory September 2019 for the tracks Miami Memory Step Dad and Divorce 37 Solo career EditSidewinder relocated to London in late 2012 to pursue a solo pop career she briefly returned to Bridezilla for their final dates 38 She told Zac Bayly of Oyster magazine in August 2014 The allure for me with pop music it s universal and it shows that we re all human that we all have these common feelings despite age race socio economic backgrounds and all that Pop is genuine Although lots of pop songs are definitely calculated there s something about the chemistry of them that gets a reaction from so many people 38 She explained why she left Bridezilla working with a team can be limiting you know In a group it s such a democracy and you re working towards a common goal and whatever but everything s so laboured This has been really quite emancipating for me 38 In March 2014 she independently released a single Carousel written with Mike Chapman Blondie s producer and shot the accompanying video on the Brighton Pier with choreographer Holly Blakey 39 40 Pop Justice premiered the track with a contributor saying it sounds both completely demented and extremely brilliant 41 Robin Murray of Clash stated There s a sense of classicism here in the way that Holiday can reconstitute languid widescreen pop into something thrillingly new 42 Australian singer songwriter Sia tweeted about the single revealing that she used to babysit Sidewinder The Hairpin s Jia Tolentino wrote I read somewhere that having Sia Furler as your babysitter means that you are contractually obligated to produce great pop music for the rest of your life which explains this new single from Holiday Sidewinder very much a kooky cotton candy retro dream pop jam 43 In March 2015 FBi Radio s Nicholas Watts interviewed Sidewinder and previewed her new material including tracks with song writing and production team Biffco she described a song I wrote this in a church in the south of France in the middle of a Sunflower field having a kind of intercontinental love affair 44 In December 2016 she released a cover version of East 17 s Christmas track Stay Another Day Clash premiered the video which she directed herself Murray described its glacial synths and sun washed vocals 45 FMS Mag s writer called it another sparkling gem from a dreamy pop sensation 46 In October 2017 she released a single Casino via through Personal Best Records 47 Sosefina Fuamoli of The AU Review observed this is a return we have been hanging out for ages it heralds a new chapter for Holiday as she continues to mine the depths of some hectic psych infused disco pop and present a final result that is almost insatiably good 47 Paper s Justin Moran premiered the follow up single Tra h Can Luv in February 2018 which he described Singer songwriter Sidewinder has officially gone solo to become a global pop sensation Her sound marries Debbie Harry nostalgia with Roisin Murphy experimentation which comes together flawlessly on her new single 48 In August of that year she released Leo which Zeba Blay of HuffPost felt was a pop esque anthem about being an unapologetic heaux 49 The track appeared on Paper together with an interview by Jhoni Jackson where she explains I always write from experience and add a dose of fantasy I was a hopeless and foolish romantic frivolous cheater and serial monogamist Every relationship was bumper to bumper So I am now conclusively and for the foreseeable future a free and empowered Sex positive movement independent lover Still learning though Who knows what s next Conflama for life whether you like it or not 50 Harry Webber of Life Without Andy noticed that it was Addressing the double standards that women experience when it comes to the world of dating normalising behaviour that for some reason has different implications based on your gender encouraging strength and erasing shame she is clearly not afraid to examine the burning issues facing many women in the world today However expressing these ideas in a four minute bubblegum pop video is her true masterstroke 51 In May 2019 her single Baby Oil was released which was featured in Guardian Australia s Nathan Jolly s 20 best Australian tracks of the month 52 He explained it is so effervescent you ll need an insulin shot from all the sugar with a Game Boy esque riff drum machines from an 80s imagined future and the same sex positive message that has shone from her past few solo singles The guitar solo that closes the song would be at home on the Purple Rain soundtrack as would the sultry lyrics Baby Oil feels like sneaking into an R rated movie or listening to Madonna records and wondering what it all means but feeling it nonetheless 52 Sidewinder performed her original tracks Tra h Can Luv Baby Oil Whispers and Leo live on United Kingdom reality TV show Made in Chelsea Series 17 Episode 07 53 In May 2019 the title track Forever or Whatever from her debut album was released The Line of Best Fit s Olivia Swash premiered the track and wrote she slams picture perfect keeping up with the Joneses lifestyles her droll lyrics take a swipe at the assumption that a nuclear family is the culmination of happiness singing of white picket fences and four wheel drives 54 She supported British rock band the Feeling on their twelfth anniversary tour of their debut album Twelve Stops and Home Sidewinder s debut album Forever or Whatever appeared in October 2019 via Personal Best Records 55 Album of the Year s correspondent TheBravesDH felt her first batch of songs that shows she can fit right in with those others Cameron and Callinan in terms of wit and humor These are funny catchy songs that owe a lot to the synth pop of the 80 s 56 Her second album Face of God followed in May 2021 on Lab78 Records which was produced by Nick Littlemore Lost Valentinos Mercy Arms Mika 57 Sidewinder partly based its lyrics on Littlemore s poetry and diaries 58 They made a rough recording of it over five days in a Hollywood studio while Littlemore was also working on his indie project Two Leaves in 2016 57 59 Littlemore later reworked it with New York based studio musicians 58 Face of God was described by Cat Woods of Audiofemme as cosmic disco via transcendental dance taking elements of psychedelic indie rock electronica and new wave synths to result in a highly referential wholly new sonic playground 57 Personal life EditIn 2017 she launched an exercise company Lovercise in London with her personal trainer and then boyfriend Sapan Sehgal and British entertainer and broadcast journalist Carolyn Owlett It was described by Andrea Thompson of Marie Claire as a bespoke fitness class focussed around matchmaking like minded singles 60 In an interview with Javita Lee of Black Magazine NZ in August 2018 she explained Well I somehow ended up running a gym with my personal trainer who became my boyfriend of course He was a Hindu Punjabi man and I lapped up his knowledge of Bollywood muscles and spirituality 61 Sidewinder was diagnosed with bi polar II She relocated to Hollywood late in 2017 61 She later briefly lived in Estonia and then Cyprus before settling in Thailand as from May 2021 57 Discography EditAlbums Edit List of albums Title Album detailsForever or Whatever Released 4 October 2019 Label Personal Best PBRCD11 Formats CD LP DD streamingFace of God Released 21 May 2021 Label Lab78 Formats DD streamingSingles Edit As lead artist Edit Title Year Album Carousel 62 2014 non album single Born on the Wind by Holiday Sidwinder and PBO 63 Stay Another Day 64 2016 Casino 65 2017 Forever or Whatever Tra h Can Luv 66 2018 Leo 67 Whispers 68 Baby Oil 69 2019 Forever Whatever 70 Kokomo 71 non album single Another World 72 Lazy GF 73 2020 Twin Flames 74 Red Right Hand 75 The Real Tea 76 Survive This 77 2021 Into the Universe 78 Face of GodAs featured artist Edit Title Year Album Girl Stay Bless featuring Holiday Sidewinder 79 2014 non album single Come Close Blackpaw featuring Holiday Sidewinder 80 2021References Edit a b Ryan Andy 21 December 2019 Loene Carmen It Walks Like Love FasterLouder Archived from the original on 22 January 2018 Retrieved 8 May 2020 Prisoner remake Wentworth adds to acclaim with Monte Carlo festival nods The Courier 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May 2020 Murray Robin 30 November 2016 Premiere Holiday Sidewinder Stay Another Day Retrieved 20 May 2016 Ask the DJ Holiday Sidewinder 11 Songs for Broken Hearts in the Holiday Season FMS May 15 December 2016 Retrieved 20 May 2020 a b Fuamoli Sosefina 15 October 2017 Music Video of the Day Holiday Sidewinder Casino 2017 The AU Review Retrieved 20 May 2020 Moran Justin 10 February 2018 This Aussie Pop Star Shot Her Music Video on an iPhone Paper Retrieved 20 May 2020 Blay Zeba 1 September 2018 There Were Zero Things Better This Week Than Our Staff s Meatball Feud HuffPost Retrieved 20 May 2020 Jackson Jhoni 15 August 2018 Holiday Sidewinder Hits a Sexual Empowerment High on Leo Paper Retrieved 20 May 2020 Webber Harry 18 September 2018 Interview Holiday Sidewinder Gives Us the BTS Word on Her Juicy Leo Clip Life Without Andy Retrieved 20 May 2020 a b Jolly Nathan 9 May 2019 Courtney Barnett Yothu Yindi and Jack River 20 best Australian tracks for May Guardian Australia Retrieved 20 May 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Retrieved 6 May 2021 Red Right Hand single Apple Music October 2020 Retrieved 6 May 2021 The Real Tea single Apple Music 18 December 2020 Retrieved 6 May 2021 Survive This single Apple Music March 2021 Retrieved 6 May 2021 Into the Universe single Apple Music 23 April 2021 Retrieved 6 May 2021 Girl single Apple Music 10 December 2014 Retrieved 6 May 2021 Come Close single Apple Music 10 March 2021 Retrieved 6 May 2021 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Holiday Sidewinder amp oldid 1168036108, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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