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Happy UK return for Australian Americana artist Emily Barker
SussexWorld
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22/01/2025
Western Australia-based Americana artist Emily Barker is delighted to be back on tour in the UK– a place she lived for a couple of decades.
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Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt. I'm the Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers and I'm
00:06
lovely to speak to Emily Barker, who was fresh off, literally just a couple of hours ago,
00:11
off a plane from Western Australia for your latest UK tour. And the lovely thing for you
00:16
is that the UK is kind of returning home. You lived here for two decades, didn't you,
00:22
until the pandemic. How has that return to Australia been then?
00:27
Oh, it's been beautiful. It was quite hard to leave the beautiful summer weather we were
00:32
just having, I have to say. But it's been great, great to be closer to family again
00:38
after such a long time living away. And the coffee is just brilliant.
00:46
They really know how to do coffee.
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And you went back because of the pandemic, went back to Australia because of that.
00:55
Yeah, I did the pandemic here. And I was in Stroud in Gloucestershire, where I lived for
01:02
13 years of my two decades here. And afterwards, just wanted to be back with family after that.
01:10
Yeah. But the lovely thing, clearly, the UK still matters to you from the fact that you
01:15
are here again.
01:16
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I spent many, many years stuck on a motorway, hoping to get to a gig
01:23
on time over this way and have a lot of wonderful fans and some really dear, dear friends here.
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I'm sure you'll experience more motorways. Now, you're back on the back of a new album
01:35
with a lovely title, Fragile as Humans. What's happening on that album?
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That album speaks to our collective vulnerabilities. It's full of binaries, I suppose,
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but like disconnection, which a lot of us experience and loneliness. But then on the
01:53
flip side as well, the power in connection and community and life and death. And it goes
02:05
pretty deep. And a lot of them are written from personal experience. But then I'm looking out
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into our collective experiences.
02:14
It sounds fabulous. Well, lovely to speak to you. I'm wishing you the
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happiest of tours back in your alternative home of UK. Lovely to talk to you.
02:22
Thank you very much. Thanks, Phil.
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