This issue of BeatzTime magazine focuses on young songwriter SiMone, who abruptly left her career to take time for herself in Thailand. The issue includes an exclusive interview where SiMone explains feeling overwhelmed by her hectic schedule and needing a break from the constant stress and demands on her time. Reviews preview upcoming summer albums and films. Articles provide tips for living more sustainably over the summer and preview new bands on the horizon.

1. BeatzTime July 2011
Music Magazine Sizzling Summer Issue
Why She Left
SiMone
Her Reasons
Her Story
Reviews!!
Page 2
Collective Attitudes
Famous Enough
ReD
Fire Within
10 ways to LIVE
Go Green
On The Horizon
Page 6
this summer
£2.00
Page 8

2. W hilst her fans sat at home in di-
spair, and her artists wallowed in self-pity,
the youngest songwriter ever to win both
“H ow did you feel, suddenly get-
ting up and leaving your life behind like that?”
a grammy and a brit music award in the
I asked. I wasn’t sure how to approach the
same year was strolling along the beaches of
question, as it was one we had all been won-
Phuket, watching waves crashing upon the
dering.
sand. “A lot of people who I have met
here ask me - ‘Why now?’ and then
“Before my life was so hectic. It’s I tell them, If you did what I do,
impossible for you’d know! the amount of stress
someone so young to be expected of I was under was increadible. Who-
so much. If there wasn’t a time when ever said working in the music buis-
I wasn’t ness would be easy clearly, had never
working, I was thinking about it, and worked in the music buisness!I just
if I wasn’t thinking about it, I was needed some time for
planning a meeting or myself - away from the city and all
“N
planning a lunch, a dinner, of the lights, some place where I
I
anything! I guess you could say I could gather my thoughts. Wow,
was always working, and now that I’m just how many times did I use the
thinking about it, it’s about time I word ‘I’? Makes me seem pretty
hired an selfish I know.”
assistant!”
ot at all” I replied. I had to give
was fortunate enough to have simply run her credit. For such a young artist she was
into SiMone in a hotel lobby whilst I was working increadibly hard with artists all
attending a journalism confrence. If anyone over the world and in different languages,
didn’t know who Giulia Simone was, they and doing it all on her own. I guess all we
would just see a confident young woman tak- can hope for now is that she gets the time
ing a lesuirly holiday in Thailand, whilst back she needs to get herself together so she can
in L.A her fans and artists have been tearing produce even more ass-kicking songs and
their hair out wondering where she was and albums for us :)
when she was going to come back.
Billie Scott - Music Journalist,
“I announced it one Sunday during a BeatzTime Music Magazine
buisness lunch. It was with him (Mi-
cah - SiMone’s Agent). I remeber he

3. “I just needed some time for
myself - away from the city
and all the lights, some place
where I could gather my
thoughts”
“A lot of people
ask me -
‘Why now?’
and then I tell
them,
if you did what
I do, you’d
know!”

4. Contents Page Issue
102:July
2011
Page 2
SiMone -
Her Side of the Story,
with an exclusive
interview only in
BeatzTime magazine
Page 4
The Top 10 Films Page 8
2011’s Summer has to offer 10 tips on
Going Green this summer
Page 6
REVIEWS - TEN LIVE
We take a look at albums Crash
Harlem
scheduled for the next The Impossible Boys
half of the year- & More
Collective Attitudes
Famous Enough?
ReD Page 14
A Fire Within NEW!
On The Horizon Simon & Garfunkle Tribute band - what do we think?