00:00I wonder if there's like a, T, R, is that an N? Or is that way an N? S, M, T, Transmit, that was, dear lord.
00:14So I will be playing on the Friday at Transmit on the BBC introducing stage. I'm very, very excited, it's my first year ever playing Transmit.
00:22And, yeah, apparently it's Scotland's biggest music festival, like it has the most people, so I'm very buzzing.
00:28This year's been, like, festival crazy, like, I've never travelled so much, like, I have played The Great Escape, I've played Dot to Dot, I've played This Is Middlesbrough.
00:36You know when you're, like, in competition for something and you're like, oh, I'm not getting my hopes up, but I can feel it in my heart, I've farts, like, I really want this.
00:45So we'd been sort of speaking to the promoters who put it on and doing a few shows with them and they were sort of saying, like, hey, like, this might be something that might work for you this year, but we'll have to see, we'll have to see, we'll have to see.
00:56So I was like, okay, yeah, yeah, I'm not going to get my hopes up, but, like, secretly I was like, please, please, please, please, please, like, really, really wanted it.
01:03And then my manager got the email, well, actually my agent got the email through, then my manager got the email from the agent and then I got the email from the manager.
01:09But, um, I was just, like, had this overwhelming sense of relief that, like, I could relax, like, I had achieved the thing I really, really wanted to achieve, like, I really, really wanted that.
01:21And when I got it, I just felt like this is such a validation of, like, me as an artist and what I've been doing and all the work I'd been putting in for the year leading up to it to try and build up to being ready to be at this level.
01:31And so, I don't know, it was just such a, like, relieving, validating moment that, like, yes, these people believe in me, like, they think my music's good enough.
01:39I always describe my music as girl rock, very loud and very shouty, especially live, like, I just have all this energy to get out, it's a little bit, like, Amy Taylor-esque.
01:47And so, I just get really, really, really excited about, like, making loud, exciting music.
01:53But then I have this real, like, every time I go to write, it ends up really, like, dark and really sad.
01:58So, I've got these sort of, like, dualities going on of, like, writing these really emotional songs and then, like, when I'm on stage, like, the minute I get on the stage, I'm, like, running around and, like, there's a video of me, like, if they're scaffolding, I'm going to climb it.
02:10So, yeah, trans may be warned.
02:13I mean, I think it all probably stems back to Iggy Pop, really, but, like, watching artists, like, Amy Taylor, watching Simon Neal from Biffy Clyro and, like, friends of mine who are in, like, hard, who are or were in hardcore bands or, like, loud rock bands and watching them perform and being, like, wow, like, there really is no rules.
02:31Like, I remember seeing this guy, like, smack a microphone off his head and his head started bleeding and he did this on stage and everyone was like, yeah, and I was like, wow, I can do whatever I want.
02:39But then musically, I'm really bringing stuff in from, like, The Frightened Rabbit and Father Son and, like, these Scott rock bands and really trying to bring in this sense of womanhood from, like, Courtney Love and Wolf Alice and, like, bring all this stuff together while also, like, listening to so much different music.
