It’s
not for us to speculate why a relationship ends; we won’t devote column inches to (un)romance, but when groups end, it’s
different. As fans of the music, we all become children of the divorce. When the relationship between Roma di Luna’s Alexei Moon Casselle and Channy Leaneagh unraveled, we lost an inventive, honest, folk pairing, and it was left to see what would happen next.Te wait was short, and consoling as Channy, blessed with a mystical vocal, spat her healing over super-producer Ryan Olson’s premade beats, to devastating effect. Just ask over- quoted fans, Bon Iver and Jay-Z. Although in supreme demand, Channy gave us her time before Poliça come to play at Latitude Festival this month…
miss her, when I’m home I forget how to be a mom; it’s a confusing thing, you know.
When I’m gone I
I saw that you’d played a couple of dates in London recently – did the UK welcome you well? Yes, it was a great time. We had a day in Berlin and a day in Paris, very fast, then we got more concentrated time in London. We played atTe Camp, I walked around a little bit, went to the Tate, walked around the South Bank, walked back to Spitalfields area, so yeah, got a lot of walking in and it’s a beautiful, beautiful city. I bought an umbrella…!
You’re playing Latitude Festival this summer – how do you find those festival appearances in relation to your own headline shows? Er, I probably prefer shows; I prefer the intimacy and the protection from the weather. I’m not much of a camper or
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anything like that, to be honest, but it’s a certain thing that’s pretty popular right now – people want to see music outdoors and be around big groups of people, but I’m pretty shy and don’t like loud noises in fact, so festivals can be pretty overwhelming!
Well Latitude is actually one of the calmer ones that I’ve ever been to, set in the beautiful Suffolk countryside – - Oh yeah, it’ll be good. I’ve heard they paint the sheep.
Tey do, yes. We were up on site yesterday and I think the sheep had already gone for their dip-dye. Oh, that’s great, haha!
When Roma di Luna ended, I can imagine it was a very explorative time
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