relatable for lots of other people is that I find the different things I do energise me to do different things. If I just did one thing I think I would be exhausted. But because I switch my focus from working on touring an album to suddenly thinking about dialogue and the play it gives me this new rush of energy and I really enjoy it. It means I can do lots of different things at the same time. I’m not suffocated by the work load. With this, you have so many strings to your bow, is there anything else you’ve wanted to try your hand at? Art? Acting? I don’t really think about what I want to try, I just think of ideas and hope that I can continue to put them out and I’m so lucky I’m in a position where I am able to make records and write plays. It’s a huge luxury and I feel so grateful. I hope I can continue. It’s my whole being. It’s such a mystery; I could wake up tomorrow and have nothing to write, which might be the case. I didn’t ask to have ideas, I live in this perpetual fear that it might just stop one day. So this part of things – chatting about the music – how do you find it? With your music being so lyrically


focused, do you find interviews distract from this? Sometimes it’s a bit redundant when someone says “what did you mean by this line” and I feel like saying “it’s all there, just listen”. I think it’s amazing people want to speak to me about my music. I remember reading interviews with musicians and thinking “I want someone to ask me questions about my work” so I can’t really complain too much. Sometimes I do get a little bit aware that I may be talking shit. It’s hard to have a really profound discussion every time with somebody you’ve never met talking about something most important to you. You can’t be lucid and profound, and inspiring all the time, you


can’t do it. Sometimes you talk shit. It’s the one interview when you’re not on top form that gets the most attraction and gets out there the most, you just have to hope that the work speaks for itself. People connecting to the work is the most important thing. You have performed in Norwich before, firstly in Norwich Arts Centre in 2014, then 2 years later at UEA Waterfront, what do you remember of Norwich I was on tour with Let Them Eat Chaos, I’d take my dog Murphy on tour, and every time we arrived in a new city in the morning, I would go on big walks with Murphy to give him a break from tour life and also for me to get in the zone. I’d go on these long 3 hour walks, I went to this amazing place not that far from the venue and I had the most beautiful experience, there were birds everywhere, it was beautiful. I came back and did the gig and there were all these people that were really excited and that’s my memory of Norwich- not walking far and being surrounded by nature.


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