Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release “Those Were The Days” to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to zip on while they listen to your new music?
Oooh! An Aperol Spritz would surely do the trick!
Please give us an update about the said new single and if there’s anything else you are currently working on (an album, tour dates, new music videos)?
Those Were The Days has been a joy to create and watch grow its wings! It’s part of a nostalgic, sentimental dance-cry body of work I’m putting the finishing touches on at the moment. I look forward to sharing a new piece of the puzzle in January and playing some fresh songs at Mighty Hoopla 2025.
We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true? (For example Dinos living inside Earth or E.T. living in a home in California)
This is quite chronically online of me, but I sort of have a morbid fixation with the Backrooms lore. If you don’t know what that is, you’re probably super healthy and regularly touch grass! Nonetheless, I could handle that one being true.
What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
Perhaps Ralph Lauren? In the JYCU (Jude York Cinematic Universe), the attire is preppy, the season is summer and everyone has boatloads of money and thus can focus on what really matters – getting your heart broken.
Tell us more about your songs. Do they usually have a universal topic/message?
I hope they do. I try to create music which is timeless in some way. I wouldn’t want it to be incomprehensible to someone of a different generation, race or culture to me. My goal is to make sure the melody and production are doing as much of the storytelling as the lyrics themselves. Beyond that, I seem to be a little obsessed with nostalgia, love and reminiscing. Combine all three and I’m sold!
Beside music, do you have any special talents or interests?
I wouldn’t say I’m talented, but I love tennis! I play weekly and it’s my second love after music. I’m also very into reading and watching superfluous video essays on YouTube about the most benign things.
Name 5 things we all should know about you as an artist?
I’m an aries sun and moon (although I’m on the fence about whether I think that means anything).
My mum and dad are both musicians, an opera singer and jingle writer respectively.
I produce a lot of my music by myself in my little apartment and often write it solo too.
I’m incredibly specific with lyrics to the point where I sometimes include incriminating names, dates and places simply because I can’t think of anything good enough to change it to.
I’m a morning person – if I chat to you after a show, just know my natural habitat is in bed and you mean a lot to me.
The road so far…. who or what was your biggest support?
My partner has been the biggest support, my most accurate and honest critic and my rock. Without him, who knows where I’d be.
A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before? + Answer pls
If your music was one book and one film what would they be?
The book would be Call Me By Your Name and the film would be La La Land. Somewhere between those two is the soul of my music.
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