Atlantic Records artist, Andrea Corr will release her second single, ‘Champagne From A Straw’ on August 27th. It is taken from her Nellee Hooper produced debut solo album, ‘Ten Feet High’ which also sees Bono at the helm as executive producer with Gavin Friday. This new single follows the instantly catchy and deceptively pretty ‘Shame On You (To Keep My Love From Me)’. When mutual friend Bono introduced Andrea to Nellee Hooper, who she had particularly admired for his work with Bjork and Massive Attack, a solid union was formed.As Andrea says, With this album, I've written the story and Nellee has painted the picture. Indeed, Ten Feet High is a kaleidoscope of colours and style with Andrea weaving her multiple characters through each song. With the forthcoming, ‘Champagne From A Straw’, Andrea has written a wry dissertation on the vagaries of a celebrity lifestyle - I've got my all-over tan and my tummy-tuck/Big house in the country, with expensive bags for my scary little dogs... It is already enjoying support from Radio 2 and has been B-listed at the station.When Dundalk-born Andrea was just 15 years old, she joined forces with her sisters Sharon and Caroline and her brother Jim to form The Corrs.

Over the next decade and a half, the siblings would grow to become one of the biggest acts in the world.

In 1998, their album Talk On Corners became the UK's best selling album, the first Irish act ever to achieve this feat.

Each of their albums has sold an average of 5 million copies, a strike rate few else have accomplished.

Twelve years and thirty million albums later, The Corrs decided it was time for their much-mooted hiatus following the release of 2005’s ‘Home’.

Each one of them went home to Ireland, but whilst Sharon, Caroline and Jim began to raise their families, Andrea undertook a new life of her own as a solo artist.

"With this record, it isn't necessarily about showing the world the real me," she says. "It's nothing that contrived. No, this is just an album where I've had fun and adventure; I'm thrilled with the results. Even if nothing happens with it, I'll go to my grave happy I've done it."

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