Abi, 26, who grew up in East Keal and studied at Skegness Grammar School, is cementing her blossoming career with second album The Thing We Should've Said.


With the current trend for female soloists in the charts, such as Lily Allen and Duffy, could 2009 be Abi's year?


She told the Standard: "The second album is certainly very different to the first. The first (The Aftermath of '96) was a lot darker; I think this is more commercial and catchier. The songs are more upbeat and positive.


"I don't really listen to chart music because I know how easy it is to be influenced. Everything I write is about what I'm feeling rather than what I've heard.


"I try to take more influence from life that other artists."


After enjoying a lot of success performing covers around the East Midlands from the age of 17, Abi decided to turn her back on the easy route and has focused on her own material since 2002.


She writes, composes, perfoms and arranges all her own music and works with a dedicated band, Adam Schofield, Martin Collins and Ian Leese.


Not only is she launching an album, but is also preparing for another UK tour, a live CD launch, and has a documentary DVD release planned for the end of the year.


Abi, who has supported Midge Ure, 10CC and Mark Flanagan of The Jools Holland Band, said: A lot goes on behind the scenes that people don't release.


"I love being independent because I keep all the control and everything belongs to me, but of course its difficult because I have to finance everything. It's a niche market but It's what I want to do and I have the determination to make it work.


"I'm looking at working with an independent label that wants to nurture an artist - the major labels want one-hit wonders from TV. It's sad because I think teenagers think they can get famous for doing nothing."The album launch begins at 8pm and tickets are £8 or £6 concessions, tel 01522 873894.

Review by James Madge

WHENEVER a singer-songwriter begins to make any kind of waves in the music industry, it is common practice for critics to liken them to as many other artists as they can think of.

With Abi Moore, that is a very difficult thing to do. To put it bluntly, she sounds like Abi Moore, and if you haven't heard of her yet, then you're about to!

Abi's second album, Things We Should've Said, is a confident outing, often sassy at times, and with a really strong underlying message of optimism and hope.

If the lyrical content of this album must be likened to anyone else's, then Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. would probably be the first name springing to mind.

The album features strikingly-titled songs such as 'Has the Whole World Come Undone?' and 'World Leaders and Power Seekers' which are laced with legitimate questions as to whether ordinary people can change the state of the world; and while her dreams of seeing a change for the better may never be realised, at least she's bold enough to try.

The latter of the aforementioned tracks features a multitude of deliciously cynical couplets, with the superb "We'd rather vote for the cabaret star of the year, than vote for a leader to free our country of fear" being the absolute pick of the bunch.

It's not all pop and politics, however, and there are some deeply emotional numbers here too, namely the six-minute album closer Tell Everyone.

Her voice boasts an immense beauty which should touch your inner soul and have the hairs on the back of your neck standing to attention from the album's very beginning.

All in all, Things We Should've Said is as near to the perfect album as you're ever likely to hear, and that is no exaggeration.

There is only so long talents like Abi can stay undiscovered by the masses, and while she must never lose her independent roots, if she isn't performing at the Glastonbury Festival within the next few years,

I fear Abi's very own idea that the world has come undone may be more accurate than not!



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