Tanita Tikaram: Say Halo Wave Goodbye

AS EVERY HAIRDRESSER worth their shears will tell you, a radical change of hairstyle usually heralds an equally radical shift of persona. Tanita Tikaram's new look appears to confirm the idea of a new, more extrovert songstress, determined to rid herself of her image as the too-cosy Home Counties' charlatan, or as a Q readers' darling, or the sexiest lady poetess on the block, or the painstaking chronicler of the mundane, or just the nice, gifted girl from Basingstoke who came into the public eye a tad too early.