Bounce Magazine September 2018
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
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SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER <strong>2018</strong> <strong>2018</strong> | ISSUE | ISSUE #71 | #71 GABRIELLE<br />
GABRIELLE<br />
We speak to Gabrielle about her latest album ‘Under My Skin’...<br />
As soon as you hear The Voice, you know<br />
it can’t be anyone else. 25 years since her<br />
debut single Dreams reached No.1 in the UK,<br />
Gabrielle’s voice remains pure, seductive and<br />
gloriously unique, one of the most compelling,<br />
natural voices in British pop history. In a world<br />
of beats-driven electro-pop and synthesised<br />
auto-tune, my, how we’ve missed it.<br />
Under My Skin is a lavishly-produced, classy<br />
collection of irresistibly sing-along songs,<br />
collaboratively created with producers and<br />
writers behind Corrine Bailey Rae, Amy<br />
Winehouse and Paloma Faith.<br />
In late July <strong>2018</strong>, the single Shine, an<br />
orchestral pop epic written with production<br />
super-Swedes Tobias<br />
Lundgren and Tim<br />
Larsson, was the No.1<br />
most-played song<br />
on Radio 2, its video<br />
seeing Gabrielle<br />
in a scarlet gown,<br />
arms outstretched,<br />
re-emerging as a<br />
stately Grand Diva<br />
of transcendental<br />
grandeur.<br />
Five million albums sold, 2 Brit Awards,<br />
2 Mobos, an Ivor Novello in 2008 for<br />
Outstanding Song Collection (after five<br />
previous nominations) and Gabrielle is<br />
acknowledged today as not only a stunning<br />
vocalist but a writer of instantly memorable<br />
melody. Under My Skin, her first studio album<br />
in 11 years, is quintessential Gabrielle, who<br />
“freestyles” over musical ideas, with no lyrics<br />
yet written, to create her signature sound.<br />
Since her fifth album Always in 2007,<br />
Gabrielle’s been a working mum-of-two,<br />
spending time on “the school run” (her<br />
youngest is now 15), song-writing at home,<br />
performing one-off shows across Europe and<br />
promoting her 2013 Greatest Hits anniversary<br />
collection Now and Always: 20 Years of<br />
Dreaming.<br />
Rachel Ducker catches up with Gabrielle to<br />
here all about it.<br />
R: Hi Gabrielle how are you today?<br />
I am fine thank you, a bit<br />
knackered, I did a show in<br />
Birmingham last night, the album<br />
launch, so I got to bed at 5am, and<br />
so I am sorry if I am a bit slow this<br />
morning!<br />
R: I watched your show on your<br />
Instagram story this morning and<br />
it looked amazing!<br />
[laughs] The audience were<br />
amazing, they were phenomenal–they<br />
were so lovely, and it was so hot, but<br />
everybody persevered and it was<br />
fantastic.<br />
R: I can’t imagine how hot it must be on<br />
stage with all the heat from the lights?<br />
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