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So you’re about to go back on tour, and I read that you used to get really nervous before shows – surely that’s dissipated now, has it? It’s definitely eased off a little bit, but because I’m touring a new album, like the shows I’ve done so far, I’ve been more nervous than I ever was in the past. I’m not sure why, I know that it’ll be fine; once I’ve got the first show over and done with on this tour I think I’ll be OK, but one of the big things is knowing that people don’t know my stuff yet. Tey don’t know my new album because it’s not out, so I worry that people will be bored and just want to hear stuff off my first album… which I will play! Tat’s one of my main worries.
I wanted to talk to you about New Zealand - I interviewed the Naked and Famous and they said the music press there are pretty brutal, like they’re not quite sure whether they want you to do well, or let you go… Yeah, it’s a bit of a shame, it’s like you get any sort of praise or success overseas and you sorta get slammed in New Zealand. We call it ‘tall poppy syndrome’, like if you grow taller than any other poppies you get cut down to
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here must have been some ancient Antipodean magic swirling around the heads of New Zealand’s Pip Brown and the Aussie Nick Littlemore
around the time they formed the duo Teenager in 2004. One, Nick, would go off to form Empire of the Sun, and the other, complex and talented Pip would evolve into Ladyhawke, both of which acts provided the psychedelic soundtrack to 2008 with their respective debuts. Was it magic, or does talent and musical intuition and taste of that order attract each other? Whatever the reason for the magnetism, we’re glad it repelled to give us two treasured acts. Ladyhawke now brings us her sophomore from the comfortable position inside our hearts and feet, but to talk to her, she doesn’t believe it…
size. I remember, before I even started Ladyhawke, getting some people saying ‘Oh, look who’s too good for New Zealand!’ which is a shame really! And still I struggle in New Zealand, like out of everywhere, I seem to go down best here [in the UK]. Obviously in New Zealand they love me, but it’s been quite hard and sometimes I dread going back there for tours.
I know you had Australia in the middle, but how did the momentum shift musically when you came to London? Erm, it just sort of snowballed. It was a slow snowball though; I had like half the album done when I first came to the UK and I had no label and no management or anything, so I just kept working for Pascal and stuff and getting the album done, then the next thing I know, I’m doing shows. I started playing shows and they were really nothing shows you know, like no-one came, but word of mouth
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