The Islander, who recently co-hosted the JEP’s first Pride of Jersey Awards, will be appearing on a music documentary about cover versions.
As someone who regularly performs covers at her own concerts, Nerina said that she enjoyed having the opportunity to provide her insight on the show, called Better than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version.
‘I was asked to do it because they wanted a writer and musician to talk about the more technical aspects of covers,’ she said.
‘The producers came to our studio a month ago and spent about a day filming. They asked me to do quite a lot of research, and they filmed quite a bit of material.’
Nerina, who recently released her fifth album, The Sound and the Fury, added: ‘I made a living for years by doing cover versions in a band.
‘It’s where I learned to write songs.
‘In more recent years I’ve covered everything from Joy Division to Steely Dan and I sometimes toy with the idea of doing a whole album of covers.’
The musician, who will releasing her next single, If I Had a Girl, in January after spending Christmas in Jersey, previously appeared on the BBC Four documentary When Albums Ruled the World.
Previewing tonight’s programme, the Radio Times said: ‘It’s another winner, with particularly enjoyable insights from singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot.’
Better Than The Original airs on BBC Four tonight at 10 pm.
Valerie: Amy Winehouse – I loved The Zutons’ original, but Amy made the definitive version
Got to Get You into My Life: Earth, Wind and Fire – It’s so much better than the original, probably the only cover of a Beatles song that’s better than the original
Skinny Love: Birdy – So different to the Bon Iver original
Hallelujah: Jeff Buckley – A phenomenal version of the Leonard Cohen hit
I Will Survive: Cake – I remember hearing this cover of Gloria Gaynor for the first time and thinking this is genius. It’s brilliantly bizarre
- Nerina (41) was born in London but only because her mother was visiting family there at the time.
- She returned to Jersey at two weeks old and lived here until she was 18.
- She proudly describes herself as a St Ouennais and her grandparents ran the Trafalgar Bay Hotel in Gorey.
- She was encouraged into music by her mother, who had been a successful jazz singer in the 1970s.
- Nerina met Jersey-born record-producer Andrew Chatterley, an Old Victorian, in 2007 and immediately thought, Im going to marry this man. Half an hour later they were in the pub and he proposed to her and the couple married six weeks later on Valentines Day 2007
- Immediately after the ceremony the newlyweds headed to Earls Court for the Brit Awards, where Nerina was up for Best Female.
- Nerina was educated at St Christophers School where she first met Andrew then St Georges and Jersey College for Girls.
- She went on to study art at Chelsea Art College, then music at City and Guildhall.
- Nerina and Andrew had a son, Wolfgang Amadeus, in September 2010 and the family live in Camden, London.
- In 2010, Nerina and Andrew wrote hits for Kylie Minogue, with Kylie even naming her album, Aphrodite, after one of the couples tracks.
- Her 2011 single Put Your Hands Up, has a video that was filmed in just one take. It received nearly 70,000 YouTube views within 24 hours of going online, thanks to a plug on Twitter by Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.
- Throughout 2014 she set herself the ambitious challenge of releasing an EP of new music every month. A track from one of the EPs was used on an international advertising campaign for Hyundai cars.
- She regularly returns to perform at the Jersey Opera House, which she describes as her favourite performing venue.
