Starz in his eyes

With yesterday's announcement of the Brit Award nominations, the presence of Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse and Corinne Bailey Rae made this feel like the first year that the Best Female list hasn't been compiled by scrabbling around for any woman who qualified. (To be considered, an artist needs to have had a Top 75 record within the eligibility period.) And the three women were instantly familiar to me for the same reason: at some point during the year I played their single to exhaustion.

In the same way that us, non food obsessives, can eat the same thing everyday for months and feel satiated; us, non vinyl owners, can listen to the same song and feel satisfied. But with an impending Brit Award (Ladbrokes 5-1), Winehouse (my favourite of the short-list) is widely recognised as a winner. And what a relief - I was starting to worry that my addiction to playing her song 'Rehab' after a glass too many was a sad cry for help.

But never mind, as this week's Big Brother circus has led me to my latest favourite song (and next year's Brit Award Best Male, as stated here first), 'Starz in Their Eyes' by the artist, Just Jack, about the downside of our celebrity obsessed culture. Jack, my new troubadour of daily life, was hailed by The Big Issue before Elton John got him signed to Mercury. A 27 year old street savvy bloke from North London, Jack is already being touted as the male Lily Allen, innit?

Find out more at Jack's MySpace page here.

Or watch the 'Starz in Their Eyes' video here.

The single 'Starz in Their Eyes' was released 15 January 2007. Just Jack's new album, Overtones, will be released 29 January 2007.