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This month’s next big thing is no Lily Allen or Kate Nash, writes Tony Clayton-Lea

THE SNOW is lashing at the windows of Emma Lee Moss’s tour bus. Emma – otherwise known as Emmy the Great – is traipsing across the length and breadth of Britain during the worst snowstorms the country has experienced in 20 years. Emmy, however, is decidedly half-glass-full about the weather: “It’s like being in a different country,” she remarks, agog at the white sheets of countryside and the dearth of vehicles on the road as she heads from Dunstable to Falkirk in Scotland.