Where are you from?
The Kingdom of Fife, Scotland.
What do you do?
Try to stay curious and kind, and make music.
Describe your music in five words.
Gay, spooky, longing, vulnerable, spectres.
What’s the greatest gig you’ve ever played?
A livestreamed Alon Salon virtual “experience” with Vier at my dear pals’ studio, Knockwood. We had a cast of beautifully strange creatures and mystic characters. I’d love to do it again.
What’s your favourite food?
Roasted aubergine and seitan, yum yum yum…
Do you have a backstage ritual?
Glue the brows, scrunch the bunch, breathe the steam, and run around.
Why?
To become the ultimate diva.
Why not.
Yes, exactly.
What’s your favourite music magazine? (Careful, now.)
BEAT? BEAT.
What’s the best thing a fan has given you?
A necklace with a cute, wee corked bottle for storing fairy dust and other mysterious powders.
Who’s your number one crush?
An imaginary, unavailable projection of the void left by my childhood abandonment wounds.
And your number two?
Grian Chatten.
What’s the next-to-last text you sent?
To my mum: “Sorry, I can’t move the car out the driveway rn, I’m playing at Abbey Road.”
What do you always have in your bag?
Sertraline, earplugs, Ritalin, Migraleve.
How many glasses of water do you drink a day?
Too much, girl. I’m pissin’ all over.
If you could time-travel to any gig, what would it be?
Bowie on the Glass Spider tour, 1987.
It’s been a Brat summer, but what kind of winter will we have?
Tart winter.
What’s your favourite era of Madonna?
I don’t really know enough to care for Madonna, to be honest. (Please don’t come for me.)
What’s your favourite piece of trivia?
Trees aren’t a discrete species, but a general evolutionary strategy of survival – crabs, too! It’s called convergent evolution.
What are two of your favourite albums?
Hejira by Joni and Noon by Twain.
When can we next see you live, and what have you got coming up in 2025?
I’ve got my first headline tour early next year – you should come! Crazy things are a-comin’ in 2025; I’ll tell you more later.
Is social media as important as everyone makes out?
No. I think it can be an important and useful tool, but it mostly makes us all ill and needs more regulation to stop it from exploiting our brains and commodifying our attention.
What question should we add to this list?
“What was the last weird dream you had? And what do you think it means?”
