Cerys Matthews / Katie Melua

[capsw]

Please help settle an office argument... Did Cerys Matthews (Catatonia) cover/sing a song called 'Closest thing to crazy'?  I believe it is currently a single for Katie Melua. Help?!

[stoo_pid]

She might have performed it live but as far as I'm aware she hasn't recorded/released it

 

[Octavius]

Road Rage is the Closest thing to Crazy (!)

[stoo_pid]

err, sorry, don't get what you mean.  If you mean they're both the same song, they're not

[maggsy69]

katie melua and cerys matthews sound identical vocally but katie melua is definitely the only one of the 2 to release it. when i first heard meluas song on the radio i thought it was cerys matthew but it wasn't. defo only sang by melua!

[georgit79]

I think Octavius wa suggesting that Road Rage was a rubbish song..

[shazfish]

No Cerys Matthews has not covered or released this song. Katie Melua wrote it and released it. And they definitely don't sound identical!!!!!

[maggsy69]

identical amy be the wrong word, similar is probably better?! they both have a very similar delivery of vocals.

[Mattk]

when i 1st heard this song i also thought it was cerys

[burtonneil]

Katie Melua has only released this song. Mike Batt of "The Wombles" fame wrote and composed it....

[littleoldme]

Katie Melua does not have a strong Welsh accent, for one thing! My ex-boss rather unkindly reckons that Cerys sounds like a Welsh Orville (as in "popular" children's "entertainers" Keith Harris and...)

[persuaders]

i can confirm that cerys matthews did sing "the closest thing to crazy", not sure if it was recorded or released as a single but i remember her singing it live.

as usual cerys rolled her "r's" which is why i remember her singing it.

to all those who said she didn't sing it , you are all wrong, she did

[Endicott]

I am pretty sure I saw her doing a version of the song on Jools Holland - it was the first time I had actually heard the song at all and it was beautiful, and Cerys was great, so its stuck in my head all this time - only heard Katie's version recently (and prefer Cerys' version! don't see the similarity in the singing, actually). So, maybe there's a chance it's on a Jools Holland DVD. Anyone seen one/

[owenv]

I'm Welsh and I heard Katie Melya singing earlier, and at first thought it was Cerys Matthews. As I listened it sounded as though Katie was trying to impersonate the Welsh accent - and doing a half decent job of it. I was/ am convinced Cerys Matthews sang this song previously! Although I don't think she released it. (unable to find any evidence anyway.)