your personality; I think travelling is really good for the human brain really, having to deal with other cultures and get your head round strange situations like ending up in Tokyo and stuff, you really do have to think on your feet, especially when you’ve been spat out somewhere really random.
Tose pop-up gigs, they looked like fun… Oh, it was so fun; I had such a good time.
I saw a few boys had joined you up on stage for a couple of songs – was this a planned thing, or did they just rock on up? No, they were just singing really loudly about three feet away from me and I was listening to them and I was like, ‘hang on, you guys know every single word, don’t you?’ Tey were like, ‘yeah, pretty much’, so I was like, ‘Get on up here!’ Tat was fun.
Did they invigorate you, those live performances? I guess being detached and having that safe distance between you and your audience can’t always be the best thing… No, that’s generally not what you want unless it’s a festival where it’s gonna be the way it’s always going to be, but I think indoors you want to be as close as you can get pretty much, especially when it’s just me because my whole thing kinda relies
on connection, because it is just me and I need the crowds to basically be my band.
Tat must be so much more awesome though than playing identikit gigs on a massive tour – - Well even on a massive tour, you still feel the difference, but this was a huge difference; one of them was loud and really drunken and intense and mental, then the next night – and it was Friday and Saturday as well, so I thought Saturday might feel the same because they’re both party nights – I came out and everyone was sitting down like a picnic. It was really funny because I’d wound myself up, like
Now Newton, you’re coming to Norwich in May and you’ve talked about the varying audiences you like to have, but what would you like from your Norwich audience? Is it seated or standing? Standing’s good. What day of the week is it? I wonder if it’ll be like London where you can tell what day of the week it is just by people’s faces? Hang on… it’s a Saturday! Party night! Wicked, so it’s gonna be very loud, or it might be another picnic. Who knows?!
Emma Garwood
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‘C’mon, this is it, whaaaa…!!’ Every gig had its highlight, like the highlight of the one in Midlem was the boys getting up on stage; I had guys come up on stage in Brighton as well, but I knew them – I had some friends join me, which was lovely.
You’re known as a virtuoso on the guitar, but you know, you haven’t got a bad voice either! You’re very talented using both, but which came first? Erm, oh, I don’t know; it’s really weird because I was kinda singing when I was relatively young, but then as soon as I got into guitar, I was very much a guitarist and still in my head I’m primarily a guitarist. I only really think of myself as a singer when I’ve done like, 20 dates on the tour, then I’m like ‘right, I’m a singer, that’s what I do every night – I’m a singer,’ but it’s not part of my general make- up
VER’S GONNA BE
particularly, which is probably quite a good thing. I’ve had loads of singing teachers dotted around and I’ve even got a guitar lesson on hold that I want to grab at some point. I just find it really… I just love learning really, I mean when I was at school maths wasn’t great, but when it came to
guitar and
singing I find it really inspiring to learn new tricks. I
was hanging
out with Tomas Leeb who’s one of my major influences, but seeing him up close helped me get my head round some of the things that he was doing.
PARTY NIGHT! IT WICKED, SO
IT MIGHT BE PI ANOTHERCNIC. WHO KNOWS?!
Y LOUD, OR
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