Minnie Driver makes alt.country album

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Actress Driver records country LP

British actress Minnie Driver, who appeared in the film Good Will Hunting, has recorded an album of country songs and is talks to release it.
Driver, 33, is talking to US label Rounder Records about releasing it, a Rounder spokesman said.

(from the BBC news pages).

So, is that her stage name? Actress Driver?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Time to curl up into a ball and whimper.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Moley Tit Mouse

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like having everything bad about the world cooked into a pie with a crust made of shit and then being forced to eat it whole. Underwater.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope she does a cover of Billy Bob's "Angelina."

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope she calls it _Driver 8_.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

or "Car 67"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

or "SHut the fuck up"

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

or "Hey, remember me, I was in that movie."

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

or "I Can't Believe It's Not Better"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

or "Alt-Country is German for Old Cunt"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

abortion time

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

She was in Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge, before she was famous.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooowww-DEEEE!!! The return of that li'l ol' gal fron Grinder's Switch!

― briania, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

She was in Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge, before she was famous
and The Day Today before that? I vaguely remember reading something of that sort in last weekend's Grauniad feature

I also vaguely remember that Driver can actually sing, so this may not be the travesty-born-of-desperate-bid-to-revive-career that the above posts seem to implying

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If she'd made an album of acid techno then perhaps I'd be a little more impressed ...

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

british squirrels can sing?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

and The Day Today before that?

Yup -- I remember blinking a bit when I saw her name in the end credits of an episode or two.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry I missed out on the album title suggestions, I've been waiting for the opportunity to use "A Fagment of My Invagination" for a while.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

She does live in a trailer

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

She is an actress.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

She...is...a sensitive artist...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Sensitive... down there?

― sub-me at best (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, has ryan adams moved on from parker posey already???!?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, Teeny's question is such a perfect capturing of a date, place and state of mind that I'm in awe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

*bows*

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Rounder Records must be having a crisis of some sort to consider her, um, work

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to have a crush on minnie driver but as time goes on she just becomes .... sad

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

She gave birth to a Natus.

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

rounder had the bacon brothers too, don't forget.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

But what if she's really good?

― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost hardly a recommendation for Rounder

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

she had a song on the trampoline records sampler, it's pete yorn and rami jaffee's label thingy.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

it's pete yorn

Sorry, I just died inside.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

me too

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

damn, I'm like totally the ambassador of bad music.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Which country?

― earlnash, Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yornica, which has been targeted by fart bombs, but is protected by a glowing atmospheric shield of cash.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(Of course I love the Teeny and etc. etc.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Having successfully muscled her way into the TV coverage of the Mercury Music Prize, ("Yeah, like Franz Ferdinand is like the new Must Have album with all the people I hang out with...") Ms. Driver is now scheduled to be performing live on BBC1's Jonathan Ross show on October 15.

Ooh, the anticipatory buzz is almost palpable.

So, has anyone actually heard this stuff yet?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

From the sound of the single ("Everything I've Got In My Pocket") it's not going to be embarassing, but that's going on a short, low-quality clip.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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