Project Description
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Interview with
EMILY BARKER
(19th May 2024)
Interview with Dave Bruce
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I just chatted with Australia’s Emily Barker recently and we had a great discussion on many subjects (it’s all covered in the video below).
I asked her how she got started, about all her new music, including new album “Fragile As Humans” (listen at the bottom), about her upcoming tour and more general questions about her aspirations, and some advice she may have for new artists.
And I got personal with some questions like these: What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done? What is the one topic you can talk about for hours? What is the thing you like most about yourself? and what her favorites are in these categories: Album, Artist, Movie, Place to visit. Venue to play, Food, Drink, Person in History, Tattoo.
It’s an interesting listen. Check out the video below, or listen to it next time you are doing your workout.
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“Making this record was a beautiful way to wrap up my 21 years of living in the UK before heading home to WA,” Emily points out.
As a teenager, Barker left Western Australia, with an acoustic guitar and a backpack, first arriving in England in the summer of 2000. She has previously written entire albums about longing for home, but Fragile as Humans was inspired and written in both hemispheres: during a writing residency in Stroud, while people-watching at London’s Kings Cross Station and upon returning to WA following the state’s strict, pandemic-related border closures.
The ten songs on Fragile as Humans take us on a deep dive into the human condition, an unflinching self-examination of grief, pain, loneliness and loss, at the same time sparkling with hope, optimism and connection.
“If I could choose one word for people to hold in their minds as they listen to this album,” Emily muses, “that word would be: compassion.”
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EMILY BARKER
LIVE SHOWS
Sat 15th June 4:30pm Junction Records, Fremantle
Sat 15th June 7pm Vinyl Cafe, Leederville
Sat 29th June – Bridgetown-Pottery Restaurant
Sun 30th June – The Marritree presents @ Live in the Chapel, Witchcliffe
Sun 7th July – Lyric’s Underground, Maylands (Perth)
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Press Release 3rd May 2024 (below) HERE
Australian singer songwriter
EMILY BARKER
returns home and turns
her lyrical gaze inwards
on filmic new album
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