Noughties Brit pop star unrecognisable as she lands in Australia 18 years after big hit – can you guess who she is?

A noughties hitmaker looked unrecognisable arsenic she touched down successful Australia this week.

Scottish vocalist Sandi Thom's way I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker changeable to fig 1 successful 7 antithetic countries backmost successful 2006.

Sandi Thom, present 43, besides saw debut medium Smile… It Confuses People spell to fig 1 successful the UK charts that aforesaid year.

But present the prima looks worlds distant from her erstwhile popular prima aforesaid arsenic she arrived down nether up of her 2024 tour.

Make-up escaped and dressed successful comfy clothes, the vocalist landed Down Under with her acheronian hair successful a fractional up fractional down style.

She was wrapped up successful a denim overgarment with an oversized pick scarf arsenic she pushed her luggage done the airport.

Thom arrived at Sydney Airport and kept a debased illustration wearing achromatic leggings, a achromatic T-shirt and trainers arsenic she pushed a trolley with her suitcase and guitar balanced on.

Her debut azygous knocked Gnarls Barkley’s deed Crazy disconnected the apical of the UK charts and was named Australia's fig 1 deed of 2006.

The parent and songwriter antecedently accused BBC Radio 2 of being anti-Scottish aft the presumption refused to playlist her caller single Earthquake successful 2017.

She ranted connected a soon-deleted YouTube video: “Honest to God I’m f***ing sick to decease of the bulls*** this manufacture pulls connected radical similar maine and I’ve had it.

"Enough I’m done. F*** you Radio 2. F*** you Bauer web and f*** the batch of you.

"It is utter s***. It’s a f***ing bully song, ok. There is nary crushed wherefore you request to bash this to maine erstwhile again.

“That is it. I’m done. I person amended things to bash with my beingness and clip and this is utter bulls***.

"See you aboriginal Radio 2. Go shove it up your a*** due to the fact that I truly don’t attraction anymore.”

Thom told STV’s Scotland Tonight at the time: “This week connected the Radio 2 playlist, determination are nary Scottish artists.

“This is not owed to a deficiency of endowment from Scotland oregon a deficiency of artists looking to beryllium enactment connected the playlist.

"I don’t cognize if you deliberation that’s just oregon not but I surely don’t.”

Appearing unrecorded connected air, Thom added: “I deliberation there’s galore reasons and I deliberation determination is simply a monolithic bias [against Scottish artists] wrong the BBC web and wrong Radio 2.

"The facts truly talk for themselves. If you spell backmost done the playlists for weeks and adjacent months, you tin spot determination is simply a existent deficiency of Scottish beingness there.”

The prima moved to LA successful 2010 to absorption connected blues and country music. She gave commencement to her lad successful 2016 and has since returned to the UK.