The last time I talked to Victoria Hesketh, for she is Little Boots, I was out of my mind, in my east London flat, with late 00’s indie rock chaos raging all around. My friend Rob was there. Heavy metal Rob we used to call him. And for some reason he’d decided to pick Victoria out of everyone who was present to have a row with. A row about Tool. Y’know, the proggy metal band Tool, who are so beloved by their fans they have rows with fast rising popstars about Tool's alleged genius at Friday night house parties organized by recently unemployed music journalists. On behalf of Rob, Victoria, and all of heavy metal, allow me to apologise.
A lot has happened since then. Victoria has released three more albums of music, follow ups to her excellent 2009 debut Hands. There was Nocturnes in 2013, Working Girl in 2015 and out now – right now! – is the somewhat delayed Tomorrow’s Yesterdays, which came out the day after this episode was recorded. That’s no critique of her timekeeping. There’s been a global pandemic after all, but it is fairly impressive that Victoria has managed to sync up putting an album out, having a baby, moving house – there’s a bit of banging and clanging going on her end of the audio in this episode – oh, and have we mentioned that she’s now essentially a member of ABBA? We’ve come a long way from Dalston.
If you’re a fan of Little Boots, then when you’ve finished this episode, do go check out her inspiring Patreon community, which we talk about at length in the episode. And obviously when you’ve done that, go sign up for my Substack, at Spoook.substack.com. And when you’ve done that, why not drop me a line on twitter at @jamesjammcmahon and tell me who you’d like to hear me talk to on this podcast going forward. I’ve said before that I’m going to have a little break at Episode 50, which we’ll arrive at before you know it. Concentrate on a few more projects and make some adjustments to this podcast so when it returns it can do with more frequency and better quality. But while I’m plotting episodes for the future, I’d really like to know who you’d like to hear me talk to.
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