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Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'APTN, 4th August 2004, London2. SOUNDBITE Karina: \"Me and Katherine had been writing together since school days and quite young in our careers we signed up in a publishing deal...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKitchenware Records\u003cbr/\u003e1. Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, 4th August 2004, London\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE Karina: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Me and Katherine had been writing together since school days and quite young in our careers we signed up in a publishing deal and then we decided that we wanted to sing our own songs. We were writing under the name Sirens so we started to be Sirens and Lindsey was a friend of a friend and Lindsey and Lea were friends together so we decided to start writing together as Sirens and that's how we were formed.\" \u003cbr/\u003eKitchenware Records\u003cbr/\u003e3. Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, 4th August 2004, London \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE Kat:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's called 'Baby (Off The Wall)', it's out the 16th of August. I was initially written to be a club track, we wanted something... Because we were recording the album and we were focussing on that and we've had an underground club hit before and we didn't want to sell out and go commercial instantly, we wanted to get a decent fan base and urban underground to get some respect first of all. So we wrote this song and we put it out to the clubs as a reminder that we were still there and we were finishing off our album but it got loads of hype, was really successful in the clubs, everyone said that's the one to release and personally I don't think it's the best song on the album, there are many more singles but it's a fantastic club record and it speaks for itself and so we decided to release that.\" \u003cbr/\u003eKitchenware Records\u003cbr/\u003e5. Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, 4th August 2004, London\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE Karina: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We wanted 10 singles on an album, an album that when people put it on it's so fantastic that they want to listen to it all over again. We didn't want to bore people with it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Lea: \u003cbr/\u003e\"None of them are album fillers like you get a lot of albums where there are three singles and the rest are fillers. Where as we've had great reviews on our album and a lot of people have said that every song that you listen to is a single.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Karina:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Which was the whole aim of the album in the beginning , so as we were writing all the time, if something wasn't sounding like a single it was put aside.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Video clip All Saints 'Pure Shores' \u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, 4th August 2004, London\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE Kat: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's great to be compared  to All Saints because the All Saints were really successful, they sold albums which is really important to us, but we don't want to be put in to a category, our music's not 'box' it's influenced by hip hop, R and B and new metal, it's an amalgamation of all our musical interests. So it's an urban sounding album but I can't say that it's all hip hop or R and B, it's a mixture.\" \u003cbr/\u003eKitchenware Records\u003cbr/\u003e9. Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, 4th August 2004, London\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE Lynsey: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There's quite a lot of bands who pretend to write their own music, they might have written a word on a song and say they have had a massive contribution on it but I think we are really fresh because we genuinely have written the whole album ourselves together with our producers. I think it's nice to have a band that are creative like that and sing about the things that they want to sing about. About real life issues that people can relate to.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Kat: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It becomes apparent when these bands say 'we wrote on our album, we wrote every song', it becomes apparent they didn't.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Karina: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Yeah and you often hear them say, 'Oh what's you're single about?' and they go 'Umm...', because they haven't actually got a clue what they're singing or what they're miming to.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Lea:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They've just been told what to sing, what to wear, how to dance, they've been told what to say.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKitchenware Records\u003cbr/\u003e11. Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN, 4th August 2004, London\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE Karina: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're a band before we are girls and we try and put ourselves in the category of a working band, you know. We've sold our cars, we've door knocked, we've paid for our studio room time, we've slept....we've really roughed it, you know. We've really had nothing. And we had major labels trying to sign us and put us in their little boxes and categories and we don't want that. We're in this because we're creative and artistic and we don't want someone saying, 'Well you can get your music out there but you're not allowed to be creative, you're not allowed an opinion'. Well, what's the point in doing it? That's why we do it, because we're creative.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Lea:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yeah, a lot of people are just in it for the fame and that's just not what we're in it for at all.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE Karina:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're doing it so we can be creative. We're artists at the end of the day.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKitchenware Records\u003cbr/\u003e13. Video clip Sirens 'Baby (Off The Wall)'\u003cbr/\u003eIt has been more than three years since four Geordie school girls decided to pool their respective talents and form the group Sirens - a band which they were determined would be unlike any other.\u003cbr/\u003eKarina Brians, Kat Haslam, Lea Cummings and Lynsey Schofield all hail from Newcastle in the North-East of England (whose residents are known as Geordies), and although they may be a girl band they insist that they are not manufactured and that their infectious pop-funk tunes are all self-penned.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter years of hard work and a couple of underground urban hits, the girls are now poised for chart success with their debut commercial release, 'Baby (Off The Wall),' which will be in record stores nationwide from August 16.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen asked to describe their debut album's sound Kat commented, \"It's influenced by hip hop, R and B and new metal, it's an ammalgamation of all our musical interests. So it's an urban sounding album. But I can't say that it's all hip hop or R and B, it's a mixture.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThe album has been offered as \"one of the hottest tunes around,\" and despite their determination not to be labelled, Sirens have already been hailed as the natural successors to the All Saints throne.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's great to be compared  to All Saints because the All Saints were really successful,\" said Kat. \"They sold albums which is really important to us, but we don't want to be put in to a category...\" \u003cbr/\u003eEven before the single, and subsequent album, 'Control Freaks,' was released, the band were the subject of a one-hour ITV1 reality swap show, 'Poor Little Rich Girls', in which Lea traded places with young lady of leisure, Charley.\u003cbr/\u003eCharley had to live and work as a bona fide Siren for 10 days, training with the girls and being managed by Keith Armstrong at Kitchenware, the label responsible for signing past successes such as the Lighthouse Family and Prefab Sprout. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile the foursome - three of whom still live with their parents (Lea has just moved in with her boyfriend) - are well aware of, and looking forward to their impending calendar of promotional tours, television appearances and an upcoming trip to Japan where they have been signed to a record label, they still call Newcastle home.\u003cbr/\u003e'Baby (Off The Wall)' is released on August 16. 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