When it comes to Olivia Sebastianelli, nothing is quite as it seems. She may appear to be all English rose with an acute instinct for a chorus, but peel back the layers and you’ll find a Converse clad, South London girl of Italian descent with a love of tattoos, poetry and punk.

With influences including Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, John Cooper Clarke and Tim Burton, Sebastianelli’s songwriting is evocative, provocative pop with a twist. It’s led by instinctual, captivating choruses and massive melodies – but still waters run deep. This is songwriting that has something to say, and says it beautifully, with a delicacy rarely found within such obviously killer pop tunes. “First and foremost I consider myself a storyteller,” says Olivia. “I want someone somewhere to listen to one of my songs and to say to themselves, ‘I know how this feels. I’m not alone in this’. I write pop music, pure and simple, but pop music that I think can really move and inspire.”

Olivia regularly writes with award-winning, mega-writers Biff Stannard, Steve Booker and Ed Druit but is also finding friends amongst the new breed of writers from Pete Hammerton, Max Wolfgang and Luke Fitton.