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<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
<strong>2018</strong> |<br />
<strong>2018</strong><br />
ISSUE<br />
| ISSUE<br />
#71 |<br />
#71<br />
GABRIELLE<br />
R: One of my favourite songs is ‘Rise’,<br />
you probably hear that all of the<br />
time?<br />
No, I love that, I never take that for<br />
granted. A lot of the time people pick out<br />
my favourites anyway. So I am happy ‘Rise’<br />
is your favourite.<br />
R: Do you have a favourite song to<br />
perform?<br />
Right, I’ve got a few, ‘Rise’ is definitely one<br />
of them, I love the response.<br />
I also love ‘Sunshine’ and ‘When a<br />
Woman’, that’s a song that makes<br />
everyone’s booty move! I also love that I<br />
can be a bit of a bully with that song, I can<br />
get everyone up and dancing! [laughs]<br />
Lastly, ‘Dreams’, and I probably shouldn’t<br />
say this, but that is the song I leave to last<br />
as it’s one of my favourites that was the<br />
song that launched me.<br />
R: You’re known for styling your look<br />
with an eye patch or a streak of hair, due<br />
to an eye condition named Ptosis…<br />
I actually didn’t know what the condition<br />
was until I read it in a newspaper.<br />
Yeah, I just call it a lazy eye. It creates<br />
a lazy eye; and have had it since I was<br />
young.<br />
I had an operation as it was a<br />
deadeye muscle and they removed it.<br />
It’s one of those things where it’s better<br />
than not seeing, so when people think I<br />
don’t have an eye, no I have got two, just<br />
one of them is quite sleepy looking.<br />
It’s not something that I show. Some<br />
people have this in both their eyes,<br />
so I am just grateful its in just one of<br />
mine. I have covered it with an eye patch,<br />
sunglasses and now it is just hair, but<br />
I love that; I love the fact that this is<br />
just me.<br />
R: I think now a days its so hard when<br />
the young girls look at people in the<br />
media and sadly they can become selfconscious<br />
about the tiniest of things, I<br />
wondered what advice you would give<br />
them?<br />
I think like you said; they have these<br />
images of what they think women should<br />
look like, but women don’t actually look<br />
like that, with these filters, and thinned out<br />
effects, so for me, I think you have to be<br />
yourself and do you.<br />
I grew up at an all girl’s school, they were<br />
bitchy and I had a lazy eye and people<br />
would make jokes about it. I had the last<br />
laugh, as later on I would be out there<br />
making music. You just have to believe in<br />
yourself, if you don’t believe in you, how<br />
can anyone else?<br />
I could have let my condition hold me<br />
back but, I decided to get a big eye patch<br />
and I draw all the attention to it.<br />
R: I think that was my point of the<br />
question, I think you’ve been inspiring<br />
and I think that anyone else with any self<br />
doubts or any similar conditions about<br />
themselves will be inspired by that too.<br />
I hope so; I had a lot of letters from mum’s<br />
with children who were wearing eye<br />
patches, who didn’t have eyes.<br />
It was a case of; I was glad to represent<br />
people who were different, or not<br />
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