"There's room for music to be a lot more interesting than the teen stuff that's out there. I wanna play live, do interesting videos, we've got great tunes and a couple of them have even have a point. I'm not ashamed to say at the moment I am only listening to my album. Hahaha!"

Siobhan Donaghy is 18 years old and already a pop veteran. After three and half years with the Sugababes, 11 months of which brought genuine Pop Fame, these days she's doing things the old-fashioned way; a live vocalist, with a live band, who tours in a transit van (for now). "I'm definitely good at roughing it," she grins, "I'm turning into a scummy bitch!"

Since leaving the Sugababes in August 2001, she's been co-writing and recording, completed a "secret" tour of Britain's tiniest venues this March (including Camden's indie Mecca the Dublin Castle, under the name Shanghai Nobody