During a live interview in Sheffield at the inaugural Crossed Wires Festival earlier tonight, SELF ESTEEM (aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor) sat down with podcaster Adam Buxton to discuss her new album and dream collaborations, before treating the audience to long awaited performance of her single I Do This All The Time.
As well as revealing that she is completing “the finishing touches” on an upcoming album to be released “by the end of the year”, the artist went on to reveal her dream to make an album with Richard Hawley and her goal to be “Chris Martin”.
SELF ESTEEM ON HER GOALS TO MAKE AN ALBUM WITH RICHARD HAWLEY AND NOT WORRY ABOUT MONEY
AB: What’s the end game as far as you’re concerned?
I saw you, I watched the documentary Almost Brilliant Friends. And there's a moment in there, I think where you're saying, you're talking about the other guys in the band and you're saying, they're happy just to, at the end of a show, just to kind of piss around, go for a pint, put their feet up, play some video games or whatever. You're kind of preoccupied by, what am I doing? Wait, what am I gonna do? What’s my legacy? Those kind of thoughts can be a heavy burden and how will you know when you’re satisfied?
SE: I don’t know…I’m satisfied by being able to have an idea and have the tools to execute it. That will make me happy for a long time. I’ve never dreamt of fame or being Global. I’d happily not go to America.
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“I want to never worry about money,I’ve worried about money my whole life. I still worry about it now. There’s loads of themes on the next album about being at the bottom of the next f**cking hill, it’s never over.
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“my other little dream is that I’m going to do another album still living in the same SELF ESTEEM world but then I wanna do an album with Richard Hawley. Remember like that Alison Krauss and Robert Plant? , I wanna do something like that”
ON A NEW AND UPCOMING ALBUM IN THE WORKS
AB: Is work on the album finished then or is it ongoing?
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SE: “I’ve sort of got it, sitting with it, thinking about it and then in September/October we are going to go back and finish it”
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When might the album see the light of day?
SE: I might be putting something out, a song maybe….
AB: Is it continuation of the musical areas you’ve explored so far or is it a radical change?
SE: Everything in my being wanted to do a 180, but then I realised that’s me being a coward.
AB: What would that look. like? What area would you go to?
I’m always psychologically an album ahead, the next album I want to do a bit more orchestral and stand still a bit more. I want to sing more […] …I want to be Chris Martin”
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There will be something by the end of the year”
ON HER ACTING CAREER
AB: “Do you feel like you’re more of an actor now?”
SE: Well, we’re gonna find out I think. I loved it, I’ve always wanted to do it […] it’s a healthier way for me to be emotional, if that makes sense? And I loved that. We’re going to see.
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I kinda want to be like Sarah Lancashire, I want to stop touring and just do like really good BBC dramas [laughing] I’d love to be able to not be on the road.
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AB: are you wanting to do more acting gigs?
SE: If the right thing comes along and it’s not too time consuming, I’ve auditioned for something cool and I didn’t get it. I love doing theatre
Once upon a time I would have said yes to absolutely anything, I can’t believe I’m turning down acting jobs to focus on music, that’s quite a dream come true.
