Singer Jody Hughes spent £2,000 to make her music available on CD - only to fall foul of technical gremlins.

The 34-year-old was overjoyed to record her album but it has taken five months and 600 wasted CDs for it to be ready for release.

The saga started when the first batch of 200 discs she received from the processing plant were faulty, with constant crackle and hiss.

The second batch was lost by a courier and the third suffered from the same quality problems as the first.

Finally, after months of waiting, it was fourth time lucky and 200 CDs are now available to buy.

Jody, of Marine Parade, Kemp Town, said: "It's been quite funny having all these useless CDs about.

"I threw the first lot away but have still got at least 200 sitting there."

The album cost Jody £2,000 to produce but Plymouth-based PMC, which pressed the CDs, had insurance to cover the cost of the lost batches.

Jody does not blame the company.

She said: "It was just an incredibly bad run of luck.

"The people there have been incredibly helpful through it all."

Jody moved to England from New Zealand more than three years ago.

She said: "I spent most of my life on a small farm, then suddenly I was in a much busier place, feeling very small.

"But I love it here in Kemp Town. It's a very creative environment.

"It's much better for me to be playing my music in Britain. The market is not very big in New Zealand - just 3 million people and 6 million sheep."

She describes her main influences as Natalie Merchant, Shawn Colvin and Beth Orton and likes "folky ballads".

Jody is performing at the Brighton Rock Beach House in Rock Place, Brighton, on Sunday from 7.30pm.

Copies of her album, Just Around The Corner, are on sale in Borders in Churchill Square, Brighton.