Bookshop assistant Lianne Hall has been included on a high-profile new CD showcasing the best of up-and-coming British musicians.

She will also feature in an episode of the new television series John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs which started at the weekend.

Singer Lianne, who lives in Bradford and works at the city's Waterstone's book store, was filmed playing one of her songs and talking to the veteran Radio 1 DJ.

Now a recording of the track Cosy has been included on a special nine-track sampler CD being released next week in conjunction with the TV series.

The CD will be available exclusively in HMV shops and a full double album featuring music from the series will be in the shops on the Shifty Disco label at the end of March.

The full CD will feature 23 songs in all, the two from Bradford being Cosy again by Lianne and Ja-Sha-Taan by Fun-Da-Mental.

Lianne, who plays in a Bradford-based duo called The Hiphuggers, said she was delighted to have been selected for the CDs out of the dozens of acts featured on the John Peel series.

"It's quite exciting. I've not had anything released properly on a CD like this before," she said.

Each week, John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs will focus on unsigned performers in a different town.

The Bradford episode, due to be screened on April 3, features other acts including members of Fun-Da-Mental, Ripcord, Visual Sounds Interactive and Glamorous Hooligan.

Peel said the idea of the series had been to show that there was a thriving music scene outside the capital.

"You don't have to come from 'that London' to exist in the music business. You can live in Bradford or East Kilbride and still get stuff done - get a band together, find a rehearsal space, do a magazine, whatever," he said.

l The sampler CD is available at £2.99 in HMV shops. Each copy comes with a voucher worth £2.99 off the price of the full album.

A live event to coincide with the TV programme, featuring Lianne and Aki Nawaz from Fun-Da-Mental, is also planned for the 1 in 12 club in Bradford on April 5.

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