Debut UK tour after ten year-break for US singer-songwriter Juliet Lloyd

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US singer-songwriter Juliet Lloyd is touring the UK for the first time this summer, with dates including The Folklore Rooms in Brighton on July 1 and The Hyde Tavern in Winchester on July 2.

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00:00good afternoon my name is phil hewitt group arts editor at sussex newspapers now by the magic of

00:07the internet lovely to speak to julie lloyd who is just outside washington dc but won't be for

00:12long julie you are just about to make your first ever tour to the uk playing some fabulous places

00:19on the way do you have a clear idea of what the uk is going to be like why now why the uk now

00:25yeah well it's been on my wish list for a really long time so i'm so excited about finally having

00:30the opportunity to come um i have only set foot before in heathrow airport i've never actually

00:36stepped out of the airport so my impressions uh of what it's going to be like are admittedly largely

00:44based on what people have told me about how amazing it's going to be i've i've had some musician friends

00:49who have toured and have just said how incredible people are over there and how warm and welcoming

00:55and what huge fans of music they are so that was a really a really big part of why i wanted to

01:01know for yourself but this comes in such an interesting time in your career and isn't it

01:05because you walked away from music for 10 years or so but oddly oddly but intriguingly you came back

01:12during the pandemic and does it feel different this time around it definitely does feel different i like

01:18to think that i have the the wisdom of experience i'm you know i'm 15 to 20 years older than my first

01:26go around and so i have perspective on you know what it means to really enjoy just being out there

01:34and enjoying the process and trying to let go a little bit of the things that are outside of your

01:38control which are the outcomes and whether or not you are successful i'm trying to you know work on

01:44being better about that every day and you're saying first time around you were trying to

01:48live up to what you thought a singer songwriter should be but now it's much more authentic isn't

01:54it it's much more you being you writing about your experiences that's a big difference isn't it

02:00it is yeah and i have more stories of my own to tell i think you know when i was 24 25 years old

02:05i hadn't really lived yet i i was writing you know this is what a breakup or a love song should sound

02:11like having not really experienced the kind of depth of emotions that come with that and so

02:16coming back and having actually lived experiences to base my songs off of everything now comes from

02:22you know at least a kernel of something that's happened to me and then of course you embellish it

02:27so is music something you just have to wait for until the time is right did you think that did you

02:33sort of think you would come back to at some point

02:35i think i think i always felt that it was was in there and i think it's actually really reassuring

02:43because during the time that i kind of stepped away and i wasn't performing and i wasn't writing

02:47it you kind of wonder if i sit down at the piano or the guitar to try to write again

02:53what will anything come out and two will anything come out that i actually would want to share with

02:58the world and so um there's a sense of like i feel like my story hasn't been fully told yet but i'm

03:04afraid that if i try to tell it it's not going to be good um so it's been very reassuring that you know

03:10when in fact when you do find the the space and the the kind of give yourself permission i guess to

03:17come back to it and and lose a little bit of the expectations of yourself that yes it's still there

03:23fantastic well good luck with everything i hope you love the uk hope you love winchester in particular

03:29thank you great sir good luck with everything and lovely to speak to you you too thank you so much

03:35for having me

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