WEBVTT - Ep 73: Georgia 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.360 Loud and Quiet Presents Midnight Chats. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.720 Hey folks, welcome back to Midnight Chats and to what 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.480 is the final episode of series seven of the podcast. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.200 I'm sounding a little bit horse today. I've had a 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.040 bit of a cold for the past couple of weeks 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.360 and this episode that I'm about to play was only 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.480 recorded yesterday, so I'm sounding quite rough on that as well, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.319 So apologies for that, but thank you to everyone that's 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.199 come on the podcast over these past ten weeks. For 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.960 this series. We're going to take a break now over 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.360 over well quite a long break, I guess, because we'll 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.920 probably start putting series eight out in September time, maybe 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.880 October time, which is quite a way off, but it 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.720 give us plenty of time to get new guests involved 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.320 and to record them and to make sure it's as 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.080 good as it can be. And there will be one 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.600 other episode between now and then, which will probably come 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.920 out in a couple of weeks time, and we're recording 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.040 that next week at the Great Escape Festival, which if 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.560 you are in the area, if you're going to the 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.199 Great Escape in Brighton, then you can come and see 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.959 it filmed live in front of an audience. Can you 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.440 I mean, can you imagine just how much fun that 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.720 will be? What else would you want to be doing 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:36.240 at ten fifteen am at a music festival if you 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.800 are interested. We're going to be recording it with self esteem, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.240 so that's the big draw. She's going to be great, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.399 I'm sure. And it's at the Jury's in in Brighton 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.760 on next Friday. So we'll put that out in a 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.160 couple of weeks time, I'd say something like that, and 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.600 then yet we'll be back in the autumn time. For now, though, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.120 we do have this last episode of the series, which 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.960 is with Georgia Barnes, who records only under the name Georgia. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.160 And special thanks to Georgia for recording this with me 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.880 yesterday because she had only just flowed home from the 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.639 other side of the world. She'd been in Australia playing 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.040 some shows with Jungle And if you've read a copy 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.400 of the magazine this month then you may well have 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.560 read a feature with Georgia. We've got feature in there. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.880 What can I tell you about her? We're not There 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.280 is going to be a new Georgia album at some point, 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.560 probably this year. It's a little bit under wraps still, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.280 so we don't talk about it too much during this conversation. Instead, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.240 we talk about kind of what George has been up 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.160 to since she released her debut album in twenty fifteen, 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.840 and she's had quite a lot going on, from hanging 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.640 out with the Flaming Lips and becoming good friends of 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.520 theirs to clubbing. We speak quite a bit about clubbing. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.400 Georgia's dad is Neil Barnes, who is one half of 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.520 Left Field, and that's probably as much as you need 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.079 to know at this point. Let's just play it. This 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:06.760 is myself talking with Georgia, and anything else that's not 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:11.840 clear I apologize for, but you'll work it out. You know, 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.480 all of the people that we mentioned. If if we 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.240 don't fully explain it, there's you know, there's Google and 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.600 all that sort of stuff. So thank you for listening. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:24.600 This is myself talking to Georgia and yeah, come to 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.200 brighton ten am ten fifteen, let's say ten am for 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.079 a ten to fifteen start juries in either myself or 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.440 Greg one of us will be talking to self esteem 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.160 and you will be able to see how the magic 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.000 of this podcast works in front of your very eyes. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.600 What an exciting time for now, though this is midnight 0:03:43.680 --> 0:04:05.160 Chat's episode number seventy three. Are you a good flyer generally? 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:07.920 I sort of not really. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.240 No, I've you know, my mum and dad took me 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.680 on planes as a young kid, and you know, my 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.600 dad's sort of touring and being a musician. We are, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.240 you know, I got to go to some places, so 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.440 I was I was traveling as a young kid, but 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.919 for some reason as I've got older. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.640 Yeah, it's got a little bit worse for me. I 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:29.200 don't know why. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.120 I think it's just the kind of, you know, not 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.080 not having a lot of space, and then. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.920 The idea of knowing that you can't get off. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.120 That's it. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.320 It's the knowingly and and and my ears are quite sensitive, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.520 and it's sort of you know, I think I have 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.080 come off this plane and my ears are slightly blocked. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.400 So I think that's why. I was with my. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.000 Brother earlier and we were just catching up over some 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.000 lunch and he was like, you're really shouting. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.120 I really am. I, Oh god, I'm sorry. I think 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.080 it's because. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.760 Well, we should say at the start of this podcast 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.560 that you have literally flown back from the other side 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.080 of the world yesterday from Australia, so thanks for doing 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.440 this I mean, this is probably you're doing okay, the 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:19.839 jet lag hasn't hit you yet. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.680 No, I'm fine. This is what everyone keeps saying to me. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.839 The jet lag hasn't hit you yet, right, it's coming. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.440 That's that's more alarming. Actually, this is like this wave 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.400 about to approach. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.360 Did you have a good night sleep last night? Yeah, slept? Okay, 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:36.720 maybe you've beaten it. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.480 I think I've beaten it. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.479 It's all about I think it's a lot is in 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.440 your head as well. If you tell yourself that it's 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.200 going to then of course you're screwed. It will. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.839 And actually, you know from previous experiences, this whole thing 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.440 of like, oh have I slept it off? I've only 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.120 had five hours, so I need to have a bit more. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.360 This whole kind of anxiety around you know how much 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.080 how many hours you've had to say, I. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.120 Haven't done that this time. I've kind of just gone. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.080 If I sleep, I sleep. If I don't, I don't. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.880 And actually, you know you've you've been, you've been you know, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.880 to parties where you know you've partied for like three 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.080 days solidly with like three hours sleep, So you know 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:18.800 you can do this. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.240 Yeah, it's going to be okay, it's going to be fun, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.880 all right. So what was it you're doing in Australia. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.120 So at the beginning of this year, I Jungle invited 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.560 me out on their UK tour to support for them, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.200 and it was such a great experience and we kind 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.440 of all became really good friends and it was like 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.039 a touring family, and I think they just you know, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.760 they were like, will you come and join us in 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.480 Australia too, And I was like, yes, let's make it happen. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.760 How many is in your band at the moment, It's 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.800 just me, yeah, because I saw a video of you 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.080 recently with like a stand up kit. You had like 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.760 a little trigger kid. Is that your stage setup? 0:06:58.920 --> 0:06:59.800 That's my stage set. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:05.760 So this whole new set of songs were really inspired 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.880 by the early eighties and mid eighties era of when 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.880 electronic music kind of met pop music in the UK 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.960 and in Europe and in America too, And I guess 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.400 what came with that was like the technology as well. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.880 It was suddenly in the eighties you get the rise 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:28.720 of an SSL desk. Suddenly stuff becomes digital, Analog meets digital, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:35.360 and it's really interesting tech for technology. And one of 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.880 the things I noticed was it was like one of 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:43.480 the first eras for drum triggers and the main brand 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.800 were Simmons. And I remember watching this clip of Depeche 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.680 Mode playing somewhere huge a stadium somewhere, and the drummer, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.920 I can't remember his name now, maybe it was Andy 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.080 something was playing a Simmons kit standing up, and I 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.200 was just like, that's fucking cool. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.280 Yeah, there's something about a drummer standing up. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.800 Look, well, totally, there's a it's amazing and you know, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.720 a lot of a lot of that era of eighties 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:16.760 electro pop music, the drummers are standing up and playing, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.000 and then obviously like watching Prints and watching Sheila E 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.000 playing standing up and kind of there's there's just an 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.240 energy I guess you get from from it. But you know, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.600 it is a kind of real thing with drummers of like, 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.000 don't play standing up. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.640 You're going to really damage yourself. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.880 You know, yeah, yeah you're again oh yeah, oh my yeah, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:43.960 yeah definitely. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:44.720 In what sense like you're going. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.920 To be because yeah, physically it's really demanding because you know, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.360 on your legs, you're putting more pressure on your legs, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.720 you're putting more pressure on your arms, there's more physical, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.880 the physical side of it is. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.200 There's just there's a lot more. You know, you're not 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:00.920 sitting down. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.560 Your weight isn't in your bum, your weight is on 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.040 your legs, and obviously one leg is playing and playing 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.079 the kick drums standing up. So I have to as 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.800 a result, I've had to, like, you know, really consider 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.480 warming up and warming down and making sure that an 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.320 hour before, two hours before I go on stage, I'm 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.920 like doing yoga, I'm stretching, because you can really seriously 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.720 hurt your you know, it can lead to well, it 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.280 can just lead to really bad things. You know, it 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:36.040 could lead to you know, potentially like you know, bad 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.480 injuries that make you know, can can harm your career basically, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.840 So it is a bit of a risk, but it's 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:44.640 it looks. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.240 Cool, Yeah, it looks really cool. Did you manage to 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.600 see the David Byrne show last year at all? 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:51.480 Oh? 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.400 Do you know what? I didn't? And it was really annoying. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.200 I got offered a ticket and I was I was 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.200 in the studio and I couldn't go. It was I know, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.319 I know what you're exactly, you know what you're about 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:04.720 to say. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.040 I mean, all the musicians standing up and. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.600 You know, well kind of took that kind of thing 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:15.760 to a new it's called an untethered performance absolutely, yeah, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.240 which is exactly what it sounds like. But they kind 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.680 of broke down the drum kit across say six people, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.440 well exactly, one person just literally had the snare exactly exactly. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.360 It's almost like a dance piece really. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.360 That's and you know, I think everybody knows David Burt, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.480 David Byrns kind of like amazing sort of left field 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.360 approach to performance. And I guess you know, when you 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.520 watch certain dance pieces, like you know, quite experimental dance pieces, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.680 they're they're sort of adding those sort of techniques. The 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.680 company is all doing something that's adding to this whole 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.800 collective experience. Yeah, I think, you know, dissecting it in 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.319 that fashion is just really cool, really cool. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:03.760 When did you start drumming? 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:03.959 Then? 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.320 What can you remember, like, at what age did you 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.680 because drums was your first instrument, right. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:13.320 Yes, yes, So there's a hard question to answer this one. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.240 I think it was around when I was about six 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:23.280 or seven. I'm told perhaps my my dad's friend was 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.880 a drummer. I should say that, you know, my dad 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.480 was in left field and his other His other partner, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.960 Paul Daily, was the drummer in left field, and so 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.400 I think the story is that I was my dad 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.920 took me around to Paul's flat or whatever, and I 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.760 and Paul had his kids set up in the in 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.440 some room. I went into the room and I just 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.680 started playing, and I think Paul sort of said to 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:49.840 my dad, you know. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:50.880 She's really good. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.160 Just naturally I couldn't. Yeah. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.240 Yeah, And I do think like I was a teacher myself, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.040 so I taught some kids at one time, and you 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.240 can just tell. You can tell some kids have this 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.920 kind of everyone's got rhythm, but some kids just have 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.480 this ability to kind of like coordinate with the drums, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.040 and you kind of think, oh, they kind of get it, 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:12.439 you know. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.240 When you're teaching kids. Though, I guess you're not to 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.280 say that, are you. You have to say no, you 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.400 can't say listen. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.840 Well, I guess some teachers did in the back in 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:25.280 the day. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.080 I guess that was the guy like you've got it, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.800 you haven't got it. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.480 You know, you might have it, but you have to work. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.079 But you just had it, like it was just kind 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:35.360 of in you. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.280 Yeah, apparently, I just I just could do it, and 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.160 it wasn't. It wasn't. So I do remember the feeling 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.480 of just being like, this is the best thing ever, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.520 Like this doesn't feel hard to me. And then I 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.079 guess that evolved into like, actually, you know, as I 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.559 got older, actually you know, sitting down listening to drummers 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.120 that I loved, or like reading certain drum you know, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:05.400 books music, because there's actually a whole you know, instrumentation, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.080 a way of writing drum rhythms. So I got into 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.240 a bit of that, and then it gets hard. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:12.800 You know, that's the sort. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:17.720 Of where you're really trying to develop your technique. We're playing, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.480 and I had some points where I was like, you. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.360 Know, I don't think this is for me and the academics. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.679 Yes, it starts to become a little bit like a chore, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.079 you know, but but you know, the end result is 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.680 that you can play this amazing jazz rhythm, or you 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.400 can play this kind of cool rock beat, or you know, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.640 you can play this feel, or you can play this 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.400 paradid or you know. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.000 So it's just like the process you go through of anything. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.880 So I went through that, and then at the age 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.280 of kind of nineteen eighteen, got into you know, played 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.200 in my first professional band and then was sort of 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.280 touring by the age of kind of twenty one twenty two, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.719 so it was, yeah, it was just a skill that 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.760 I you know, I just picked up and kind of, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.920 you know, saw a way. It was actually my way 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.160 into a music scene in London. I always felt like 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.559 I wanted to be part of a scene, you know, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.960 and playing drums really kind of opened the door for 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.880 me getting into a scene. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.240 Was that particularly the kind of South London? 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:30.120 Yeah exactly, Yeah, exactly, Alan and Quest and. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.280 Just that whole scene. Exactly. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.600 How did you meet those guys? 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.040 Well, actually I went to school. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.080 I went to you I went to school with a 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:44.800 Landamara and Alan started going out with a guy and 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.640 we were good friends. And she was like I think 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.960 I was seventeen and she was eighteen. She was like, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.600 do you want to come and meet my boyfriend? And 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.560 I was like yeah, and it was Quest, and so 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.520 we just became friends ever since. And then Alan started 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.480 to play music and Quest was kind of already in 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.040 that kind of South London Seed he was already friends 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.240 with kind of you know, you're you're Adele's really young 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.560 Adeles and and kind of Jack Pannarte and the kind 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:20.320 of really young young Turks crowd and Alan was playing music, 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.720 and so me and Quest became a Land's backing band, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.600 and then Alan and I became Quest's backing band. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.680 Because around that time, Ques played his first show that 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.720 he fronted, Yes at the Shall Yeah, were you in 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:33.960 the back? 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.200 I was the drama okay, right? 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.000 That was And I've been told that was a really momentous, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.160 momentous gig for a lot of musicians, up and coming musicians. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:48.680 I think samf was in the audience. Samfer, loads of 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.160 other musicians were kind of in the audience watching that 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:53.640 gig because everyone. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.280 It was great that gig. He was I remember him 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.360 being super super nervous. Yeah, yeah, because he was singing 0:15:58.400 --> 0:15:59.120 for the first time. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:15:59.840 Yeah. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:01.640 Just he's quite a quiet guy. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:02.840 Is in the totally. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.320 I mean, I think for QUESTI I don't think he 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.520 ever realized that actually, you know, he could he could 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:15.160 actually really hold an audience on stage, and perhaps that 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:16.880 you know, it was good that it was me and 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.680 Alana's his backing band because you know, we were kind 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:24.320 of like very supportive. It was just amazing playing for 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.880 them too, because you know, they were they were in 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.640 this whole scene, and as a result, I got to 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:36.000 meet all these amazing, amazing musicians and people who would 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.200 go on to kind of really shape the UK scene now, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.720 you know. I remember being at a boiler room really 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.200 early on and it was it was a Young Turks 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.400 night and Quest was DJing, and I think the billing 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:55.000 was something like Hype Williams, Dean Blunt and then Samfer 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.880 doing a little like mini set just with like a 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.879 Corg mini and his voice. Then it was like Meeka DJing. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.720 Then it was like Jamie XX DJing. Then it was Quest, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.440 then it was Hudson Mohawk. Then it was like Scream, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.359 then it was I remember like being in this room 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.040 and thinking like I was just like, what is it. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.439 I'm in a room full of all this talent? You know. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.680 It was kind of like quite. I always remember that moment, just. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.399 Being like this is this is really nice to just 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.840 sit here and just see all this talent, you know. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.159 And I guess for a long time I kind of 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.199 was a bit like, you know, I was kind of 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.360 just known as the Drama and I was kind of like, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.040 you know, I don't think people really knew that I 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.920 was creating music behind the sort of closed doors. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.639 Really like study wise, did you studied at so Ass, Yes, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.760 and you studied at brit School. Yes, it was brit 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:53.600 School before. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.480 So Yeah, Brit School was before so As. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.320 And what is Britschool like? When you're there? Do you 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.960 get like what is it like? There is there this 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.520 sense that does the reputation of it mean that people 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.440 think that this is going to happen for me because 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.520 we're at the brit School and you come here and 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.400 then you become adele or wine house or whatever. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.359 Yeah, it's interesting. I've never really spoken about brit School. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.720 I mean when I went so I went from fourteen 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.639 so and I actually initially was in theater. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.920 I didn't do music, and. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.359 I just was you know, I was in a school 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.240 before that that was just not very I wasn't very 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.399 happy and it just wasn't really working out and I 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.199 needed a change because I was getting into trouble. I 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.080 got in with the wrong sorts of people. And so 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.159 when I arrived at the brit School, it was like 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.080 it was like something I'd never experienced before. It was 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:55.240 just full of creative people, teachers that were very supportive 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:00.359 and engaging and really thought provoking and you know, in theater, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.000 we were doing plays about David Bowie. You know, we 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.600 were doing plays about also about kind of you know, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.320 the Holocaust, and we were doing plays about then we 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.239 were kind of doing you know, all the traditional kind 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:14.920 of Shakespearean plays and stuff like that. 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.200 But it was like it was so arty, you know, and. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.000 I don't never really experience anything like that before. And 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.800 also it was so incredible about the brit school was 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.040 it's free, you know, so you were with kids from 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.720 all different backgrounds, you know, that all just shared this 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.720 kind of love for something something in art. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:36.199 You know. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.679 So from that from the age of fourteen sixteen, I 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.080 just had the best time ever. And then I chose 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.160 to move to music. And I guess around that time, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.200 Adele had come out and sort of got success, real success, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.600 and you know, there was always rumors of very successful 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.760 people that had come out of music, and I felt 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:05.040 that there was a slight pressure from other people that that, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.040 you know, that we were all that they were all 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.960 going to be pop stars. And you know, and I 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.199 think because of my background of like you know, my 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.840 dad and stuff, I knew that actually it wasn't as 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.760 easy as that. And you know, Adele was just incredibly 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.399 like a one of one of a kind, and for me, 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.520 I kind of went to music and I had a 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.480 complete rebellion against pop music. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.240 It was really odd. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.880 I didn't I was like, I didn't really want to 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.000 perform what the teachers gave me. 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.520 I wanted to perform like Sonic Youth and kind of 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.240 like and you weren't allowed to do that. It wasn't 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:42.920 allowed to do it. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.520 Well we did, like, you know, we did Sonic Youth 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.480 covers and I think the teachers were a bit like, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.200 you know, this is this is you know, perhaps Georgia 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.639 needs to kind of have a bit of a rethink 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:58.240 about And I don't know, I think I just I think, 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.439 you know, the whole thing about the Brits School is 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.800 is that there is that whole fame school around it. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.880 But I think because of my previous two years of 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:13.800 just having a fantastic, incredible mind blowing experience, I was 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.879 always you know, I'm always very positive about the brit School. 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.560 But you know, but the whole kind of fame school, 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:25.119 the side of it is kind of like a little 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:32.760 bit you know, it's but but also the fact is 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.200 is that I was kind of performing as well so 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.320 that was fantastic. You know, I was given up. We 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:43.320 were all given opportunities to perform, and that was kind 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:47.000 of something that was really important because I guess now, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.480 you know, it's you know, I do, even though I 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.520 suffer very badly from nerves. I'm kind of you know, 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.320