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A Homecoming In Sound: EIVOR Prepares For Australian Headline Tour · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm either and I am an artist from the Faroe Islands,
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  Speaker 1: a musician, I'm a writer.
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  Speaker 2: March marks your first ever headline tour of Australia and
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand after opening for High Loan here in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. What made this feel like the right moment
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  Speaker 2: to return center stage with the full production?
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  Speaker 1: What can I say? It was just, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's always been a big dream of mine to go
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  Speaker 1: to Australia to play and to experience Australia. I've always, like,
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  Speaker 1: somehow just been a fan of Australia without you know,
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  Speaker 1: haven't been there, but just yeah, And so I was
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  Speaker 1: fortunate enough to come over with High Long and it
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  Speaker 1: was such a beautiful experience. And with that in mind,
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  Speaker 1: you know, afterwards, I was like, I have to go back,
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  Speaker 1: and I was lucky enough to have people who could
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  Speaker 1: make that happen. So I'm just so excited to come
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  Speaker 1: over again with my whole band and and to play
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  Speaker 1: for the Australians again. It's going to be wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, lovely.
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  Speaker 2: And did you get to say much when you were
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  Speaker 2: here last time?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit? Yeah, we didn't have that much time
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  Speaker 1: to explore, but a bit of time, and this time
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  Speaker 1: we'll have even more time to maybe, you know, see
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  Speaker 1: some stuff thee some wild stuff, yeah, which which you
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  Speaker 1: have a lot up there?
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  Speaker 3: We do, we do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really curious about because everyone knows us Australians for
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  Speaker 2: you know, our wildlife, our koalas and kangaroos and all
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  Speaker 2: that Pharaoh Islands. What is there for us to see.
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  Speaker 1: Sheep?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's all right, that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Thank cute, cute, cute little sheep. But also you know,
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  Speaker 1: there is some Faroe Islands. It's you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's between Iceland and Scotland in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic Ocean, and it's it's very mountainous. So there the
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  Speaker 1: nature here is very beautiful and peaceful and rough at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. So, I mean, I think if you're
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  Speaker 1: in for a nature experience, this is a beautiful place
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  Speaker 1: to go to go to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds absolutely beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: And you've described your live shows as more than concerts,
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  Speaker 2: almost ritualistic experiences. When you're preparing for a tool like this,
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  Speaker 2: what determines the emotional or spiritual arc of a set.
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  Speaker 1: I always find it very interesting to make set lists
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  Speaker 1: for tours, and it's something that I brew in my
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  Speaker 1: head often for a long time, all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to the tour, almost because it's you're taking people on
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  Speaker 1: a journey. I like to think about the set list
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  Speaker 1: as a journey. You know, where does it starts? And
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  Speaker 1: where do we go and where do we land again?
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's a beautiful thing to make a set list,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and exciting to kind of think about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what, where do we want to go on
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  Speaker 1: this show? And I don't know. I just I pick.
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  Speaker 1: I pick songs and I put them together as I
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  Speaker 1: see it fit. And then maybe there's a space in
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  Speaker 1: the set where I think, okay, we need to go,
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  Speaker 1: we need to go there, so I'll pick maybe an
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  Speaker 1: old song from my repertoire or a new one or
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  Speaker 1: you know, so it all depends on I like to
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  Speaker 1: pick songs that kind of work together for that particular
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  Speaker 1: journey somehow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And obviously the journey is a different like everywhere
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  Speaker 2: you go, it's yeah different, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be different. I like to switch around
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  Speaker 1: a bit and not play the exact same set every night,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I like to kind of keep it a
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  Speaker 1: bit playful and open.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful and you're joining Sylvain on this run, whose
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  Speaker 2: work also played spirituality, atmosphere and intensity. What was it
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  Speaker 2: about her music that made this pairing feel natural?
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  Speaker 1: We taught I was fortunate enough to tour with her.
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  Speaker 1: She toured with me around Europe, and that's how I
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  Speaker 1: got to know her. She came along as a support
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  Speaker 1: act and we so just immediately clicked. We became friends,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, where have you
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  Speaker 1: been all my life? And she's such a wonderful spirit
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  Speaker 1: and a beautiful artist, and there's something beautiful about sharing
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  Speaker 1: the stage together with another artist, to share a night
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  Speaker 1: like that, because it's yeah, And I'm just really happy
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  Speaker 1: that she's coming with me to Australia. And I know
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  Speaker 1: she's too, She's super excited too.
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  Speaker 2: I must say, you guys, like the pairing of you
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  Speaker 2: guys together is just like otherworldly, Like it's so good.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice. That's yeah, I think so too. I think
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  Speaker 1: we kind of somehow come from the same world world somehow.
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  Speaker 1: Yea and our world are not the same, but they
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  Speaker 1: kind of match.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and many Fancy first discovered your voice through The
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  Speaker 2: Last Kingdom, where Yeah, your music reached a massive global
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  Speaker 2: audience through that. How did composing for that world change
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  Speaker 2: the way you think about storytelling through sound?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah that was. Making music for The
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  Speaker 1: Last Kingdom was like the first time I had made
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  Speaker 1: music for a TV show. And it's such a different
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  Speaker 1: approach to create because you're creating music for something, You're
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  Speaker 1: you're pulling out the emotions of something that's already there.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're not making an album or anything. You're you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to invent the emotion, you have to make
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  Speaker 1: it stronger, right. So it was just so freeing and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful to make the music for this beautiful TV show
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  Speaker 1: which has such dramatic things going on. And I really
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  Speaker 1: got to dig deep down to my roots actually because
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  Speaker 1: it's a Viking show and you know, I come from
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  Speaker 1: the Faro Islands and grew up with the traditional music
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  Speaker 1: from the Farao Islands, which is something I drew a
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  Speaker 1: lot of inspiration from when I made the music from
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  Speaker 1: for that show. And I forgot the question that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was just flabbering away.
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  Speaker 3: Like no, it totally, It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Worked it was, and there is a bridge between that
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  Speaker 1: and my music and I have played a lot of
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  Speaker 1: music for the Last Kingdom. I've played it a lot
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  Speaker 1: on my live shows the past year and it just, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it works together. So I bring some of that to Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, can we have some of
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  Speaker 3: that here?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you will get some of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good do you when you were composing those songs
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  Speaker 2: for the show, did you see a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: music in your head as you were watching the scenes?
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  Speaker 3: Is that kind of how it worked.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, it was totally. I mean I was invited
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  Speaker 1: to come to London to work with John Long, who's
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  Speaker 1: the main composer of the show, and he was looking
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  Speaker 1: for like he was looking for something and he had
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  Speaker 1: heard my stuff on YouTube and he just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have a play around in the studio and see what
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  Speaker 1: I would come up with along with his score. And
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  Speaker 1: it was a crazy experience because he had the one
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  Speaker 1: of the scenes of the show. It was like, as
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  Speaker 1: I remember correctly, it was a battle scene. There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those scenes, so it was a battle scene,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the battlefield. Really crazy and it was
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  Speaker 1: on a big screen and I got a microphone in
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  Speaker 1: front of me and like, what would you sing to this?
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  Speaker 1: You know, said, and I just I just started improvising,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, what would I sing to this?
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  Speaker 1: I would just I would scream to this, and that
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  Speaker 1: kind of became the the what you call it, the
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  Speaker 1: main theme. So it was like just my first impression
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  Speaker 1: of that and it was so inspiring, so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: That's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that whole experience changed the way that
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  Speaker 2: you create creative future songs?
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  Speaker 1: I think in a way it was it was a
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  Speaker 1: new discovery, but also in one way, it was also
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  Speaker 1: like going back to my roots. It felt it felt
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  Speaker 1: like coming home a bit like Okay, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: like a place where you can be completely free and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, belt it out. And that's very much
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  Speaker 1: what very folk music is about. It's very free and
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  Speaker 1: and it was in that sense, very freeing and totally
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  Speaker 1: I think it woke up a side of myself that
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  Speaker 1: I felt had been sleeping for a bit, and I've
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  Speaker 1: taken it into my music somehow in a different way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And do you.
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  Speaker 2: I find that your music is kind of hard to categorize.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can say that your music is you know,
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  Speaker 2: traditional folk, but then I agree, I also feel like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's so much more than that though too. Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel free now to follow instincts rather than genre expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, absolutely, it's I don't know, maybe because I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing this for so long, and the older you get,
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  Speaker 1: the more the less you care or something. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you just start to focus differently on what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do, and you know better what you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do. And you know, I think like fifteen years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I might have been more more of more searching for
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  Speaker 1: or something as an artist, and I'm still searching. It's
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  Speaker 1: always like, it's always a discovery when you make music,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just a bit more like filtered in and
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  Speaker 1: more compact like the Yeah, the idea is I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know what I want and and that's a very
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  Speaker 1: wonderful feeling. And I'm not I'm not worried about what
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  Speaker 1: people would expect, because they expect all kinds of things
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  Speaker 1: from me, you know, because I've done so many different things. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: some people will want to want me to sing in English,
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  Speaker 1: some people want me to sing very with some people
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  Speaker 1: want me to do traditional folk music again, some people
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  Speaker 1: want me to do rock music. It's it's and if
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  Speaker 1: you start thinking about what people want. You totally lose
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  Speaker 1: your your plot, You totally lose your yeah, your authentic self.
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  Speaker 1: I think. So it's yeah, it's about not listening too
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  Speaker 1: much too, that's what was in your head, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listening to your true self, I think, and.
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  Speaker 2: Not all the noise around maybe yeah, yeah, exactly, yes, exactly,
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  Speaker 2: and not.
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  Speaker 1: Fall into the trap of you know, or what would
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  Speaker 1: people want? What do they want me to hear?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, ed Well said, your performances also often feel
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  Speaker 2: deeply physical, almost elemental.
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  Speaker 3: How do you prepare vocally and.
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  Speaker 2: Mentally for shows that demand that level of emotional and
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  Speaker 2: bodily intensity night after night.
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  Speaker 3: Long questions your question?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, love that, I love that. Yeah, it is a
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  Speaker 1: very physical thing for me to be on stage. How
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  Speaker 1: do I prepare? I mean it's for me, being on
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  Speaker 1: stage is very much about kind of shutting out my
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  Speaker 1: my my thoughts, and I want to be in the
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  Speaker 1: moment with the people who are there. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be right there in the moment with people and not
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  Speaker 1: distracted by any thoughts or or you know, the dishes
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  Speaker 1: at home or whatever, you know, you know, whatever I
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  Speaker 1: feel that day. I don't want to bring too much
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  Speaker 1: of that. I want to be like a vessel or something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I'm on stage. I want to be
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  Speaker 1: someone who just where the music can just flow really
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  Speaker 1: through me. And I like to keep it a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I like to keep the house, which is my body.
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  Speaker 1: I like to keep it open, you know, and to
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  Speaker 1: be able to receive whatever the audience brings to the table. Also,
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  Speaker 1: because there's such a big part of my shows the audience,
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  Speaker 1: and so I don't know, I just I prepare. It
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  Speaker 1: is more to just just be in a quiet space
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  Speaker 1: and not do too much before the show, and I
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  Speaker 1: warm up slightly, not too much, just a bit, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: slowly and gradually through throughout the evening. Before I go
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  Speaker 1: on stage. I try to keep my voice warm and
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  Speaker 1: you know, mm hmm, but it's not I don't prepare
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  Speaker 1: in any crazy way. Yeah, I might meditate a bit
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  Speaker 1: or do some stretches, you know, yeah tragic, well.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy, that's mad.
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  Speaker 1: But otherwise it's more about just getting into the zone
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  Speaker 1: and in the right mindset for me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any music you're putting on or listening to
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  Speaker 2: whilst you're doing that?
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  Speaker 1: Or sometimes we actually we like to put music on
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  Speaker 1: the band. Also, you know, just to get into a
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  Speaker 1: as a mood. Yeah, and we get what kind of music.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it depends on how we feel that day. I guess. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we listen to all sorts of music wealth in the
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  Speaker 1: tour bus and also backstage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're not listening to do you listen to
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  Speaker 2: songs outside of your genre or do you listen to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of music inside of your from your genre.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the music that I often tend to
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  Speaker 1: listen to is so different from my music. It's totally Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's Yeah, it makes sense in my head,
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  Speaker 1: like because it's you don't want to listen to the
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  Speaker 1: kind the same type of music that you create yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You want to listen to something take different. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I love to listen to you know, electrode like
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  Speaker 1: super electro music or or even you know Lenarcow and
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  Speaker 1: Who's More for folk, Arthur's story, Yeah, yeah, David Bowie,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Cave. I love listening to Nick Cave and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the listless long yes, and very it's something that's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Oh that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: This is a question I really want to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope I go about it in the right way.
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  Speaker 3: I genuinely thought no one.
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  Speaker 2: Could cover Kate Bush's Running up that Hill in a
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  Speaker 2: way that felt so respectful and transformative as Placebo. They're
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite bands, and I think they did
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  Speaker 2: an amazing come up cover, except I then listened to your.
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  Speaker 3: Cover of that, and it's on my mind.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing, and I have to say, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was even better than Placebo.
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  Speaker 1: Oh where did you hear that? That was just done
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  Speaker 1: on a TV show in Iceland? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I or maybe it's on YouTube. It might be
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube now that's.
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  Speaker 3: How I saw it. It was a thank you, But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: I loved it, absolutely loved it. And I do have
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  Speaker 3: a question.
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  Speaker 2: What draws you to Kate Bush's work And how do
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  Speaker 2: you approach honoring something so iconic while still making it
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  Speaker 2: unmistakably your own?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you soual kind of course. I mean Kate Bush.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, she's this legend and this golden voice that
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  Speaker 1: I've always admired a lot as as a female singer
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  Speaker 1: myself and growing up. I remember like I was just
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  Speaker 1: in awe of her and an artist like her, and
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  Speaker 1: The York and Jeanny Mitchell and all these amazing female
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  Speaker 1: personalities that sing and make music. Yeah, inspired me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And and then I did a cover of for an
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  Speaker 1: album I did like many years ago. I did a
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  Speaker 1: cover of that song Hounds of Love, and that was
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  Speaker 1: like just a very spontaneous It wasn't a planned thing,
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  Speaker 1: but we were in the studio and playing around and
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  Speaker 1: the drummers started to just play this drumbar and I
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  Speaker 1: just started to sing sounds of Love on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: More of her. It was more of a jam and
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  Speaker 1: a fun thing. It was not like intentional that let's
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  Speaker 1: cover this, but it was just more of a playful thing,
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  Speaker 1: and it ended up on the album. It's an album
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  Speaker 1: called Larva, an album I made aged decades ago.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: And so later, I mean I was I was on
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  Speaker 1: this TV show in Iceland, and they suggested I covered
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  Speaker 1: Kate Bush running Up that Hill because it was because
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  Speaker 1: of stranger things. It was at the time she had
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  Speaker 1: her come back. It was such a beautiful comeback that
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  Speaker 1: she got all of a sudden out of the blue
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  Speaker 1: right definitely, and I just I wanted to sing this
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  Speaker 1: song because it's such a cool song, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a great idea. So we played this
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  Speaker 1: song live just on this TV show and I loved
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  Speaker 1: sing me.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, and she has this, yeah anyway,
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  Speaker 4: she just she's got it.
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  Speaker 3: You did a beautiful job.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, please make that more available somehow,
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  Speaker 2: put it on an album or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a good idea. That's such a cool song,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. It is?
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: It has all these It's produced so amazingly too. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I was like, my god, yes, let's play that song.
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  Speaker 1: And when you play a song, you also discover how
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  Speaker 1: the production is put together, all these little patterns that
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  Speaker 1: come in and go out. It's in a cool production.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the first time I heard it, like, I
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  Speaker 2: just got chills and I was like, what is this?
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  Speaker 3: I was very young at the time, but it stuck
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  Speaker 3: with me. Anyway. I could talk about that for ages,
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  Speaker 3: but you didn't have me too.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you some much, of course.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm running out of time. Okay. What feels non
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  Speaker 3: negotiable for you as an artist? Now?
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  Speaker 1: No negotiable? I mean that's definitely having someone tell me
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  Speaker 1: what to do, you know, having someone telling me what
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  Speaker 1: to wear, what to do, what to Wright, I think
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  Speaker 1: in my on my journey, which has been for a
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  Speaker 1: while now, I started when I'm sixteen. You know, you've
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  Speaker 1: been through all these different faces and chapters. I think
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  Speaker 1: in your life you worked with many many people, many
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  Speaker 1: many managers, many labels, and you kind of slowly become
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  Speaker 1: more you come. I think you come closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: to yourself and find out out what's the right thing
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: for you and who are the right people for you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to surround yourself with, and so so I think it
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: would be too, It would be non negotiable for me
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to have like an A and R person at a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: label or someone to to make rules about what what
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I should do and how I should look like and yeah,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: all that, all that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Stuff, and it all comes with you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I enjoy being independent and free, a free artist.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's lovely. And as you were saying, like, I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: think that only comes with time, doesn't it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: You start to realize actually, yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I think so, Yeah, yeah, I think so. As a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: young artist, you don't know this, You don't know how
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be, you know, And yeah, yeah, you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: think you have to do all these things in order
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to to have success or something or or to be
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: able to release something, you have to do all these things.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But today I'm I think I'm also enjoying it more
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: everything about it, Like I enjoy writing, I enjoy touring
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and also creating the artworks, and everything is just fun
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: because it's it's a playful process and and you can
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: choose the right people to work with every time, and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it's just it's wonderful.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Of course. It sounds like I have this amazing I'm
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: always like, oh, everything's wonderful. I have days where I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: think everything sucks, though.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: No, I was just like, oh, I'm gonna have to
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: throw all these songs in the trash that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Never do that, whatever you do. No, I was just
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: gonna say, it sounds like you're really grounded. You're very soothing,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You're oh you're sweet.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Aside from your voice, which does that to me anyway,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: puts me to sleep in a good way.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Oh good, it's beautiful.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: This tour being framed as a kind of homecoming and
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: shared sanctuary for fans and Nordic and spiritual folk traditions.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: What does community mean to you in the context of
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: live music?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you say that one more time?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Sorry, it's another huge question.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: This tour is being framed as a kind of homecoming
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and shared sanctuary for fans of Nordic and spiritual folk traditions.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: What does community mean to you in the context of
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: live music.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's almost almost almost makes me cry
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: because I think that it's so it's so beautiful to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: meet my fans around the world, and it really touches
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: my heart to come to come to a place like
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Australia and and feel that I have an audience there
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and it's really for me it's a homecoming as well.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And last time I was there, I felt so welcome
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and I felt that the people there was like it
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: was like family, you know. It's like the room was
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: so full of love and compassion, and for me, that's
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: just what the world needs right now. And it's such
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to get to share meaningful moments with
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: people all around the world and to just come together
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: in peace and love. You know. I think that's the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: greatest gift that I've been given to be able to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: share this moment with people. So it means the world
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to me that community really does.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: That's beautiful.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: It's nice to know that you can feel it to
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: yourself up there on stage, because.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: You know, as fans, we don't always know that that
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: translates to you as an artist.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I certainly feel it, you know, and it
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: makes me so happy, it really does.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And yeah, for audiences in Australia and New Zealand who
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: may be seeing you headline, who may be seeing you
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: headline for the first time, what do you hope they
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: feel when they leave the venue?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's a tricky one, isn't it. What do I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: hope they feel? I hope they feel. I hope that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: they feel something at least. I hope that they feel
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: somehow when I play my shows. I just whatever people
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: want to feel they should feel. And we're all so different.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: We all go through different things in life, and we
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: might experience a song differently, you know, some might experience
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: very different emotions, you know, And I feel that I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: quite sensitive like that. I feel a lot of different
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: emotions in the room when I play, and that's beautiful
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, just share this and be
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: able to deal with something within yourself. So I just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: feel that I hope that people have gotten something good
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: at least out of the shows, whether it's joy or
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: dealing with their sadness, or I hope it's something good.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I hope they feel let me say, I hope they
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: feel loved. They feel loved, and they leave the space.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: That's so wonderful. That's the lovely thing I've heard in
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: a lot. That's beautiful.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I really thank you. Well. I think that's the simple
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: way of saying it. I think, yeah, yeah, oh, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: just know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: That it's projected back at you as well. We love
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you and we cannot wait to see you in March.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be back. I have no idea. Yes,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'm counting the days.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Oh wonderful. We hope you enjoy the tour.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Yes, I will for sure.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Oh wonderful. Thanks again, have a wonderful day, night day.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, it's just eleven forty here. Yeah, I'm
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: just having my like fourth coffee now.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I love I live off the stuff, do you, yes,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: suff