Following up on her promise at C2C to release something soon, the debut EP from Melanie has arrived and it is simply quite stunning. With a sleeve just showing a long empty road and no information other than the song titles, which is a shame as there is no way to give credit to those who have helped create this EP. The title track “Ready To Run” was the song that opened her recent C2C performance, it starts with an acoustic guitar but soon opens up to a full band, including

​​​​ Even though The Shires were playing simultaneously only a few yards away at the Indigo, there was only one place to be at the O2 and it was Club WM. It seemed that a large swathe of UK country bands, were in attendance, as well as many luminaries on the scene and countless fans to see the second performance of Melanie. The why’s and wherefores of how this came to be are none of our concern but as Melanie herself succinctly put it “If you knew me before I’m now Melanie, a