care. Like, I was thinking my next album might be solo piano…that’s the beauty of doing stuff independently, you can do what you want. Your 6th album Te Silver Globe came out late last year. You have collaborated with several people on there including David Holmes. What was it like collaborating rather than it being just you? Well I’ve always worked with other musicians. Studio time is expensive; I can play a lot of instruments but sometimes not very well or it might take me a lot of time. I don’t want to be spending all day doing one guitar part, so I’ll just ask a friend who’s good at playing guitar to come in and do that for me. A lot of collaborations are based on people around me that I know and ask if we can work together. David’s a friend, he was living in L.A at the time working with Primal Scream, and I was going there anyway so it just happened quite naturally. It appears that as an artist from the North, you’ve received a lot of support from fellow Northerners like Jarvis Cocker, Elbow and Marc Riley. Is there a good network of people around Manchester, and a supportive scene? It’s really nice. It’s more noticeable since this last record has come. I live just outside Manchester, and even though it’s only 25 minutes on the train it’s as if it’s in Derbyshire, it’s a bit further out there. I don’t hang around in Manchester as much and don’t see as many bands as I’d like to, or see other musicians. But since this album’s coming out I’ve felt more involved in the scene and more people have said “Oh, we’ve not seen you around for years!” but I haven’t really stopped making music. A lot of people seem to be enjoying this record. You’re been everywhere in the media in the past few months, on Marc Riley’s iPlayer show All Shook Up, and had loads of support from Radio 6 Music. How does it feel to be thrust into that level of attention after plugging away at your career for 20 years? It’s brilliant. A part of me is quite shocked by it. Recently I did a headline show at the Deaf Institute in Manchester and I came onstage and was taken aback. Someone commented that I looked shocked in their review actually! It is overwhelming, I’m used to playing to up to 50 people and then all of a sudden to sell out a headline show! But I’m very aware that it’s very here today, gone tomorrow, so I’m just trying to enjoy it and not frighten myself with it. I gave
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Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab was staying in our office last June and was doing a session with Marc Riley, so I gave her a CD of my album and asked her to give it to him when she went in, and he’s championed me since then. He’s been consistently so supportive, I’ve done two sessions already and doing another in September. Te support from 6 Music has been amazing. It’s a massive sprawling epic of an album, quite different from a lot of your past stuff. What do you think your next recording will be like? Maybe something simple? It took me three and half years from start to finish to make this album. I knew when I started it I knew it was going to be quite layered and it would be quite hard work. I knew in my head when I was hearing it, it would be quite an epic thing. But I think the next thing I do might be more minimal or not as layered. I’m just not sure yet. I’m writing stuff and there’s stuff that’s on the Amber Light, like another album really that I did,. My favourite track on there is I Need A Connection, I love doing that one live. It’s a lot more pure electronic, minimal…maybe it will go in that direction. I just don’t know until I start committing myself. Te title was taken from a film called On the Silver Globe. What was it about
that film that made you want to work with it as an inspiration? I saw it part way through making the album. My husband Andy (Votel, world renowned DJ and producer) was working on the soundtrack to On Te Silver Globe at the time and he had it on in the background while he was doing his work. I started watching it and it totally freaked me out because it looked like it was in a Russian post- apocalyptic landscape and at times it was quite horrific, and stark. Te cinematography is quite blue and they use a fisheye lens. So it’s pretty weird! It’s about a group of astronauts who go to another planet to start another civilisation. Sat the end it goes pearshaped. But there was something I felt a link between the film and what I was doing. Being an artist years ago there was a certain way of doing things but now due to the internet it’s a completely different thing. Who owns your art anymore? In the future what’s it going to be like? So the album was this idea that came out of that. You run her own boutique label, Bird Records as part of independent label Finders Keepers. Who can you recommend to us? I’ve curating a stage at Festival #6 at the moment, and one of the acts I’ve chosen is Let’s Eat Grandma, from Norwich! I played with them before in London so I though it would be great to get them on. Tere’s also Emma Tricca, and Paper Dollhouse, as well as Novella, who are like a psychedelic pop band, and Orlando who are from London. I like all of those! You’ve got a headline tour in November, but before that you’re playing Te Alcove Stage at Latitude. Have you been to Latitude before either as a performer or a punter? No I’ve never been or to that part of the country before but I’ve always wanted to go. I did my family tree a few years ago and the last point I got up to was that some of my mother’s father’s side of the family were from Southwold which is right where Latitude is! I think they were cockle pickers! I’ve always wanted to go to that part of the country to check it out.
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