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“It’s not you, it’s… Him.” When the real Emma-Lee Moss had to deal with the very real situation of her fiancé trading their relationship for a life with God, she found herself broken. Embattled with reason as to why he fell into the arms of his 3 lovers, the Holy Trinity, what Emmy got as severance, was a tap – a tap into her root creativity, which allowed her to write her tugging second album, ‘Virtue’. Borne out of pain, its reception on welcome ears is its healer, and we talked to Emmy a little about making it…


I’m always amazed still when I call someone overseas and the phone actually connects and you can hear them…! Yeah, I’m generally just amazed that I can get it together to just get this phone call. I’ve done a couple of shows and I’m recording a Christmas album – I’ve nearly finished it.


Ah, I thought this was the stuff of legend. Are you recording it with Tim [Wheeler, frontman for Ash and Emmy’s new boyfriend]? Yeah, that’s what we’re doing this week.


Fantastic. How do you get yourself into a Christmassy mood, or has it been quite easy? Well we were gonna decorate the studio, I mean, we did some of it in May so we were gonna decorate the studio and make it Christmassy with lights and tinsel but when we got in we actually found that we didn’t need to, ‘cause the moment you start thinking about Christmassy things, it’s such a simple trigger to get yourself into the mood, you know.


I guess in the confinement of a studio, anything could be happening outside… Yeah, so we were going out into the street straight after, just looking around and being like, ‘Good Christmas to you sir’, and not understanding why people weren’t jolly and why it wasn’t cold.


And why you had a hankering for egg nog. So what’s your favourite bit about


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being in America, and how do you usually go down there when you play? American audiences are incredible; they’re so warm and friendly, it’s kinda like – you’re in Norwich, right? It’s not unlike being in the Norwich Arts Centre. Tere are certain venues in the UK where people just happen to be really, really friendly and that’s been my experience at all the American shows.


I was almost late calling as I was engrossed in your tour novel, ‘Te Wet and Windy Moors’, in which you describe Norwich and its Domestic Life Museum. Did you ever make it there? No, but I will do, I will make it eventually.


Maybe when you come next month – - Tat’s a really good idea. If we have a night there and a bit of time in the morning, I will actually go at last.


I interviewed you a couple of years back, and when doing my research I noticed that people this time round have started comparing you to yourself on the first album, whereas at that time, they were comparing you to your peers all the time – do you feel like this different person that they’re comparing? Te younger you than the one you are now? I am a different person. I don’t really notice the change in perception I guess; I’m not very good at looking at my career in a sweeping way, you


know, I can’t see what it looks like from the outside, but as a person I’m very different… so different. When I think back to what I was like on my first album, sometimes I just think ‘who was that?!’


You describe your first album as an adolescent album – what would you describe this one as? Tis is quite a serious album, I think for me. I’d lost a bit of my lightness; I was thinking very seriously when I made this and I think when I look back upon it, it was a very different me when I made it to when I finished. It was all part of the healing process. I think it will remind me of someone that I was for a brief period who thought about things very seriously and who took things very hard. I was being faced with the complexity of lie for the first time. I’ve actually read a couple of reviews that have called it a dissertation and I don’t know if that’s a positive thing, but I kinda agree. I read a lot, I took in a lot of books and new theories and new thoughts before I made this album, and that’s what came out. I guess it’s kinda my dissertation at the university of life, haha!


‘Virtue’ was written out of a woman’s rite of passage getting engaged, then ultimately a break-up, but arguably it’s your best work to date, so do you think that to write a third album you’ll have to go on the hunt for drama?! I’ve already written a lot of stuff for the third album already; it’s just sort of


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