Shelly Poole


Michelle Lena "Shelly" Poole is an English songwriter and singer.

Career

Shelly Poole is the daughter of the 1960s recording artist Brian Poole, of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. With her sister Karen, she formed the band Alisha's Attic, and they released their debut album, Alisha Rules the World, in 1996. After selling over one million records worldwide, the duo split up in 2001, a year after The House We Built, their fourth album for Mercury Records, was released.
Poole married Ally McErlaine, the lead guitarist from the Scottish band Texas, in Glasgow on 5 October 2001. Both Poole sisters went on to write songs for other artists throughout the late nineties, and to the present day.
In the end of 2008, Shelly formed the alternative country band Red Sky July, with McErlaine, and Charity Hair. She signed to the publishing company of Gary Barlow, San Remo Live. After San Remo, Poole signed to Stage Three Music, then three years later to BMG as a writer. Poole is currently at Kobalt Publishing.

Recordings and songwriting

As a songwriter, Poole has written tracks for Bryn Christopher, Ronan Keating, Boyzone, Westlife, Ward Thomas, Michael Gray, Camilla Kerslake, Dave Stewart, Rachel Stevens, Massive Attack, Belinda, Roachford, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alice Jemima, Heather Peace and many more. Poole, along with Andy Hill, also wrote the single "I'll See You Again", for the album by Westlife, Where We Are.
Her solo album, Hard Time for the Dreamer, was released in September 2005 on the Transistor Project record label, and reached the Top 10 of the French and United Kingdom iTunes chart. Two songs from the album, "Anyday Now" and "Totally Underwater", were featured on an instore Starbucks album in 2006. Included on the album were two duets with Jack Savoretti.
She co wrote and sang on Michael Gray's dance release of 2006, "Borderline", which reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart and #3 on the ARIA club chart. In May 2006, Poole released "Lost in You". Her following release was "Totally Underwater", an EP, which included a remix of "Totally Underwater" by Andy Bradfield, and two tracks "One Kiss" and "What You Feel Like".