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 />
FEATURE<br />
speak to you today!<br />
Darlin’ [laughs]<br />
R: My mum always played your albums…<br />
Lewis Hamilton was telling me the same<br />
thing, loads of mum’s force their children<br />
to listen to me, [laughs] but that’s really<br />
lovely…<br />
R: Oh, I am not complaining!<br />
to myself “your mad what’s the point of<br />
having a husband if he isn’t helping”, but<br />
my mum was always like, “I want to see if I<br />
can do that, and do this”, so she did.<br />
A lot of women do it now. I admired her,<br />
but she’s scary in that sense, a lot of<br />
people don’t have that energy. She has<br />
more energy than I could ever have.<br />
R: Your debut single was ‘Dreams’ in 1993<br />
– does that feel like along time ago now?<br />
You’re so cute though I love it! Makes me<br />
realise how old I am [laughs]<br />
R: You’re not old! I am sure you are the<br />
coolest mum going as well?<br />
Oh you’re a diamond thank you very much!<br />
I should bring you over to tell my kids that!<br />
R: Speaking of mum’s, I’ve read lots about<br />
your mum being a very strong woman<br />
and a single parent, bringing yourself and<br />
your brothers up and holding down a few<br />
jobs… I mean that’s incredible.<br />
Yes, she used to work for the Ministry of<br />
Defence, and then she’d do a tailoring job,<br />
and also do some piece work, so that was<br />
making pieces for smart trousers and suits.<br />
Then later on she qualified as a social<br />
worker.<br />
I am telling you this, and thinking, my<br />
mum, she’s a gangster, she was definitely<br />
a gangster, in the sense of holding down<br />
three jobs, looking after four kids and<br />
doing it for herself.<br />
I say this because she was married, and I<br />
remember coming home one day and I just<br />
see her laying on the carpet and I thought<br />
Yeah, 25 years, it came out 7th June 1993.<br />
It’s quite funny as my son is 23 years old,<br />
so it was two years after, and the fact that<br />
its still one of his favourite songs I am like,<br />
wow.<br />
R: I think it’s still one of a lot of people’s<br />
favourite songs.<br />
It’s lovely that year’s later people still tweet<br />
how fresh it sounds and I love that.<br />
The success came about because people<br />
took it to their hearts and loved it and kind<br />
of made my dreams come true and after<br />
all this time I can still go out and do what<br />
I love.<br />
R: If you hadn’t had got into music what<br />
do you think you would be doing now?<br />
Oh, easy… I wanted to work with children.<br />
I do love kids… although I can’t wait to get<br />
away from mine most of the time [laughs]<br />
no I am kidding.<br />
I have been a mum for all of these years<br />
and it nice that now they can find their own<br />
way, but yeah I think I would be working<br />
with kids in some way, shape or form.<br />
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