Former Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan, has come up with a decent set of songs well worth checking out for her new EP 'Eye To Eye'.
After being cast aside by the Idol machine almost immediately after winning Australian Idol 2004, Casey has spent the last few years withdrawn from the spotlight of the mainstream music industry and working on her own set of songs based on her own set of rules.One of those songs 'Shattered' alludes to the destructive route Idol sends its winners on when they don't fit the Idol recipe. "I was shattered/I was blind but now I see", Casey sings. The song opens with the line "I can feel like shit but you'll never see it" ... Idol is a cruel beast.
The bio at her MySpace is a testament to hard work Casey has been putting in to prove her own worth as a performer. "Since the hype of Australian Idol has died down, Casey has been establishing herself as an artist in her own right, and has been enjoying successful gigs at various well known venues such as The Basement, and The Vanguard in Sydney, and the Grand Central Melbourne, for which she has been receiving rave reviews and standing ovations. Casey was also invited to Sing at the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony and Queensland to perform at the Woodford Dreaming Festival, The Foxtel 10th Birthday Party and to Tasmania to perform at the Putalina Music Festival", it states.
Donovan's Idol win was short-lived. As soon as she won the 2004 show, she was immediately cast aside for runner-up Anthony Callea, who was deemed more marketable. Donovan was dropped within the year by her label Sony-BMG.
Casey Donovan will release her Eye 2 Eye EP in January. It will feature the four songs 'Shattered', 'Help Me', 'Did it Again' and 'Eye 2 Eye'.
Samples of the songs can he heard at her MySpace site.
