Internet ban for Thom's Saturday Night video

Published on Sunday 31 August 2008 22:16

SANDI Thom, the singer who reached No1 after finding fame on the internet, has had the video for her latest single banned from YouTube because of scenes of drug-taking.

The 27-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter said she only discovered what had happened on Friday after logging on to the website.

She discovered the video for Saturday Night had been removed.

She told The Scotsman that the video, which featured a compilation of images sent in by fans of their Saturday nights, was discovered to have contained "inappropriate" scenes, including one of a man with what appeared to be four lines of cocaine in front of him.

The images also featured a man with his hands down his trousers, she said.

"I thought it was hilarious in a way when I found out they'd banned it, but I also felt bad for my fans who had sent in their pictures in good faith who won't get to see them now," said Thom.

The singer, who was raised in MacDuff, Aberdeenshire, was one of the first musicians to gain recognition via the internet. She reached No1 in 2006 with I Wish I Was a Punkrocker (with flowers in my hair).