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Without wanting to detract from that message, was it as much fun to make the video as it looks?
‘Honestly, it was the best day of my life. Riding at half three in the morning in my camo, on top of this ’60s Abbot with a big scary gun on it, and a police motorcade and an ambulance, down Oxford Street – it was like, what is happening? I make folk music, what s going on?!’
‘And having all of these grubby, shifty men all on their own in random places around central London the irony was off the charts, because there was tiny me in her shades and this huge tank. And I was so safe.’
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International Pop Underground: Billie Marten Gets Less Fluffy , More Fun on Her Vibrant 3rd Album
When English folkie Billie Marten first set out making her third LP, in 2019, she felt like something was about to burst . Both within herself after signing a record deal at 15 and releasing her first album at 17, she was burnt out by the music business and in a grander societal sense, with lingering climate crisis and social tumult leaving her feeling as if the world was on the brink.
Sure enough, 2020 delivered a pandemic Earth s greatest purge, Marten says which brought the untenable state of modern living into the spotlight, allowing Marten to take personal downtime (sitting, thinking, revelling in nature) while the UK went through a great cultural reckoning.
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