hat music were you into when you were young & what’s stuck with you since then?
J
ane Weaver’s been making music for 20 years. From Manchester, she runs her
own record label and has had six albums out, the latest being Te Silver Globe. Everyone loves it. She’s been all over the press and the radio these last few months with her epic electronic psychedelic tunes and is about to wow Latitude with a performance at Te Alcove Stage. I spoke to her about the inspiration behind the album and Te Bay City Rollers.
16 / July 2015/
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“My mum got me a brown
front of the TV trying to play along
and I would stand in
Bontempi keyboard
to Tubeway Army. ”
I suppose the first thing I heard were the Bay City Rollers who I suppose were a bit like One Direction, a manufactured boy band, in the early 70’s. Tey had an image, and I had a bag and a scarf…I was about 4 or 5. Ten I saw Kate Bush on TV and my first album I bought was Te Kick Inside on tape. I was obsessed with her; I thought she was like a fairy or a wood nymph. After that my mum got me a brown Bontempi keyboard and I would stand in front of the TV trying to play along to Tubeway Army or Are Friends Electric and Ultravox and OMD. It was quite easy for me to hear stuff and then work it out. After that I got more into heavier stuff, indie and metal as I got older. Your sound has developed a lot since Like An Aspen Leaf came out in 2002. How has your song writing changed as you’ve grown older? I think that probably as you get older you become more confident and less self aware when you’re writing. You don’t really care about what people think anymore. When you’re younger you tend to tailor what you’re doing, sometimes subconsciously, to what your peers are doing around you. I still must do that because what you listen to does seep into your consciousness but I feel freer artistically as I get older and that’s why I’m bolder and more experimental as I get older and don’t
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