First full UK tour for Berlin-based singer-songwriter Anna Erhard

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Berlin-based singer-songwriter Anna Erhard is embarking on her first full UK tour with dates including Southampton’s Heartbreakers on September 28 and St Leonards’ Kino-Teatr on September 30.

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00:00 Yeah, sure.

00:01 Good morning.

00:02 My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspaper.

00:05 Lovely to be speaking to Anna Erhard, who is currently in Berlin, where you live, Anna.

00:11 But you are heading across for your first UK tour.

00:14 You did a couple of UK dates earlier this year, but this is the first tour.

00:18 Why is it important for you to play in the UK?

00:23 I mean, this is the first real chance I have to do this.

00:26 And before, I was always just thinking about Germany and Switzerland and just these places

00:32 where I thought people are listening to my music.

00:34 And since the last album, it got picked up a bit by BBC Six.

00:40 And that was so great.

00:43 I was so happy about that.

00:44 And I seem to have like a small audience there, hopefully growing audience.

00:49 And so it makes sense.

00:51 And I want to come to it.

00:53 And the lovely thing is you're playing St Leonard's in Southampton at the dates close

00:57 to us on this latest tour.

00:58 The point is, you did a few dates in the UK earlier this year, and you know that you get

01:04 a good audience over here then.

01:06 Yeah, it was amazing to play there.

01:08 I was really surprised.

01:10 It's definitely different from Germany, like the way people interact at concerts.

01:16 Really?

01:17 In what way?

01:18 I feel like the audience is a bit more like a bit braver and they know more what it means

01:24 to be an audience.

01:25 You know, they're really engaged.

01:26 That's interesting to hear.

01:27 But why do you think that might be?

01:32 I guess it's you guys might be more used to this kind of live music situation.

01:39 And here concerts are a bit more reserved.

01:42 You tend to think Germany's got concert halls everywhere, choirs everywhere, music happening

01:47 everywhere.

01:48 Yeah, that's true.

01:49 Yeah, but I think it's just a different history and kind of mentality, basically, as well.

01:58 And I really enjoyed that.

01:59 Yeah.

02:00 And also the UK has happy memories for me from childhood camping holidays.

02:05 Yes.

02:06 Yeah, I was there when I was, I think, 13 or something.

02:10 I think it was my last holiday with my family afterwards.

02:13 I told them like, I'm not going to do this again.

02:17 That's a bit young to stop the family holidays.

02:19 I know, but I wanted to do my own thing.

02:23 But we were, yeah, we took the car from Switzerland.

02:25 We drove to Cornwall mainly.

02:29 And we had a big tent and we were just camping all around Cornwall.

02:33 And then we went to London.

02:34 Yeah, it was fun.

02:36 But we also got robbed on the first day.

02:38 Robbed?

02:39 In the UK?

02:40 Yeah, like somebody smashed in the window and they just took all our stuff.

02:45 So I think that's why I was like, afterwards, I was like, I'm not coming on holiday again.

02:52 I was just wearing the same shirt for like two weeks and being like a teenager.

02:58 I thought that was just horrible.

02:59 On behalf of all of us here, I'm so sorry to hear that.

03:04 Well, thank you so much.

03:07 I forgive you.

03:08 Oh, thank you.

03:09 Well, it wasn't me.

03:10 But camping is important in your music too, isn't it?

03:14 On the last album, Campsite.

03:16 Yeah, I dedicated it.

03:17 Camping is in your head, isn't it?

03:20 Exactly.

03:21 I dedicated my whole album to this campsite feeling that I had back then with my family

03:28 and earlier on as well.

03:29 We were always camping.

03:31 And during the pandemic, this kind of came back, this wish to just be outside and live

03:38 in this simple life.

03:40 Yeah, like a nostalgic feeling.

03:43 Fantastic.

03:44 Well, have a really happy tour in the UK, won't you?

03:49 Keep your possessions close by, obviously.

03:52 I will, for sure.

03:53 Lovely to speak to you.

03:54 Have a great time.

03:55 Thank you.

03:56 Thank you.

03:57 You too.

03:58 Ciao.

03:58 - Ciao. - Yeah.

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