IT'S THE RHYTHM......
One of my more surprising musical discoveries last year came from the dance-pop arena, not somewhere i tend to find favourite new music. Whilst watching highlights and sets from Glastonbury on iPlayer a music-loving friend told me to watch the set by someone called Georgia, said that she stood out for him as someone to keep an eye on. Upon watching her, the first thing that struck me was that she was stood up, surrounded by a kit of red hexagonal electronic drums, a couple of cymbals, and to each side, what looked like a couple of keyboards and sequencers or drum machines. Not many musicians perform this way, playing drums whilst singing, and certainly not in the field of music in which Georgia Barnes operates. I was soon taken by her enthusiasm and musicianship - she never missed a beat - as much as her music, which appeared to be influenced by Chicago house and Detroit techno, in amongst more modern influences. I later found out that her father is Neil Barnes of electronic mu