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Today Featured Artist – INTERVIEW – Pearl

Tell Us About:

Your first single and how you felt when it was released:

Go! I had just performed my first gig at the Bedford and was in a taxi on the way home when it went live! We played the song on my phone (I wanted to be the first stream it…and to check everything was okay!) – it was a lovely moment, if not a bit of an anticlimax. The week leading up to it had been a lot of stress and last minute artwork changes and general chaos and tears. 

Your favourite song you have created on the EP:

Fish is my favourite, I took a while to find a way of communicating the message that felt right. It holds a lot of emotion for me. 

Your favourite song to play live:

Currently, ‘Years’ Is my favourite to play live, I love prancing round the stage to the chorus, it feels light and summery!

 

The song that was the longest to write and why. 

Words took the longest to write. I started it in 2016 and the only thing I kept from the early version is the first verse. It was a song about not knowing how to talk about something…so it took a while to figure out!

Your most emotional track:

Fish, I have only just got to the point where I don’t choke up anymore! It can be a little problematic when singing live as there is no guarantee I won’t go full water works on you. 

The best lyric you have ever written:

This is a tricky one! My favourite lyric is in Go! “Where do you go? Where do you stay? Miniature soap, mud on your face”. I love how it immediately takes me to being on the road and travelling; little hotel rooms and campsites.

Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show:

My tummy is a series of avalanches and my mouth is drier than a rich tea biscuit. I try to look at it as excitement not nervousness!

The hardest track to sing live:

Words is pretty tricky! I definitely want to be warmed up for that one. 

Essential items you always take on tour with you:

I haven’t been on tour yet…but when I do, I’ll be taking my orthopaedic flip flops, a cute disposable camera and a battery pack. 

Describe your fans in three words:

Curious, gentle, dreamers. 

A song by another artist or band you wish you had written:

At the moment I am loooooving ‘Pick Your Tears Up’ by Grace Carter. It is an amazing song and I would have loved to have written it! 

What can we look forward to:

More music and a more live shows! 

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