Alt country rock singer/songwriter Julianna Riolino embarks on her first-ever UK headline tour on the back of her debut album All Blue. Dates coming up include Komedia Studio, Brighton on Sunday, December 10.
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00:00 Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor for Sussex Newspapers. Really
00:06 lovely this afternoon to speak to Juliana Riolino. Now you're in Canada at the moment,
00:11 but you'll be heading for the UK fairly shortly for a December tour, which takes an update
00:16 in Brighton on December the 10th. And this is your first UK headline tour. That is exciting,
00:23 isn't it?
00:24 It is very exciting. I'm eager. I'm eager and excited and bursting with anticipation.
00:31 And you've toured the UK before on a smaller scale and with a band, but this is your first
00:36 you alone tour.
00:38 Yes, I mean, I've toured with, I've been in the UK with another band that I was in previously
00:44 and I opened a show in London, but I haven't toured more extensively than just London.
00:57 So yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. And we'll have a bit, I'll have a band with
01:00 me.
01:01 And this tour is all the more significant for the fact that you are touring on the back
01:05 of your debut album, your debut solo album, which came out just over a year ago.
01:11 Yes, yes, it did. It was all blue.
01:15 Yeah. And tell me some of the things you're talking about, thinking about, writing about
01:19 on that album.
01:22 I was thinking about a lot of my, the way I process my own emotions. I was thinking
01:31 a lot about how to get out of my own way. And a lot of the times when I'm songwriting,
01:38 I use it as a way to like meditate or to process emotions that maybe I don't quite understand.
01:48 And so the end result was all blue. And yeah, it's been a great year.
01:56 Is songwriting your way of understanding the world then, in a sense?
02:01 It is, definitely. It's my way of like, I mean, I don't want to say disassociating, but
02:08 I will because it kind of feels that way when I'm writing a song. Like I get in a kind of
02:14 a trance, you know, it's my way of disconnecting from reality and tapping into my subconscious,
02:22 I think. And obviously, there's a lot going on in everyone's subconscious, and the end
02:27 result ends up being really interesting. So I don't typically like, I don't look at my
02:33 songwriting like, oh, this song is specifically about this or this moment or this person,
02:40 because I think when people hear my songs, everyone has different perceptions of reality,
02:48 right? So when they hear my song, like Lone Ranger, they hear If I Knew Now, their interpretation
02:56 of it is unique to their own experience. And I don't want to get in the way of that, you
03:03 know, I think that's what's special about music.
03:05 That sounds fantastic. And obviously, it's very difficult to describe music, isn't it,
03:09 to pigeonhole music, but I see you're described as indie punk and cosmic country. That's quite
03:15 a lot to mix together, isn't it?
03:17 Indie punk? What? That's funny. That's awesome.
03:20 You didn't know that. You are indie punk, apparently.
03:23 Right on.
03:24 How would you describe it then?
03:28 I think that's great. I think they summarised it succinctly. I think I'm a little bit of
03:36 everything. I like to say I'm a little bit of country, a little bit of rock and roll.
03:41 And you know, I end up creating music that is indicative of everything I listen to, and
03:51 I listen to everything. So it makes sense.
03:55 Fantastic. We're really lovely to speak to you. Have a very safe trip across and enjoy
04:00 that tour.
04:01 Thank you very much.
04:02 Thank you very much for your time.
04:04 Thank you.
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