1. When did you realise you comment on they have to deal with
your potential? where you inspiration it I guess.
comes from,
Well when I was specially your fist Where did you get all
younger, my dad gave album cover, your theses gnomes front,
me my first fiddle, at brake through one what started this
first I hated it, being that brought you the obsession of yours?
forced to go to fame you now have.
practices, but after a Do you have much Obsession is a good
while when I started input? word for it, well when I
learning being able to was younger my
play my own music and When I was younger I grandma had lots and
what I wanted to play, was more into the lots of gnomes, well
it was quite enjoyable. artistic side of things, half of my collection is
There is an only a and for a while I hers at one point, I
certain amount of times thought I was going to used to go out into the
you can play London go into that, afterwards garden and I always
Bridge is burning down I thought no not really. used to look at the
with out wanting to rip I have had a lot of gnomes and make up
up the violin. input, I mean my first stories with them, from
album cover was then I always love
I can understand that, slightly embarrassing imagining the stories
what were your early in its own way but at that could happen
influences? the same time brought around them, I mean
me to the forefront due they so expressive,
Well I think my parents to its originality; my first after my Nan died I
they had a idea of me album cover was of inherited all of hers and
as this popular folk course me as a started from there.
singer from a young gnome. But you know I
age, they kind of spoon have always loved There’s a theme in
fed me stuff like, gnomes. some of your songs
Fairport convention about gnomes, and
and all these other I heard a rumour your fairies and the magic
things, but later on I passion is for you have at the
started liking other gnomes. bottom of your
bands and other music garden, of course
festivals, like WOMAD, Passions a bit of empty along with, love,
and started seeing word, to describe how depression, and war.
other people, like Seth much I love gnomes, I
Lakemen and other have at the moment … You can make up more
types of acts that over 70 gnomes from of a song by making up
maybe weren’t so around the globe. a world, with different
traditional who had rules and creatures,
different influences, So you have a some thing separated
and also at school we collection of 70 to escape to. Of course
had the rock stuff gnomes? I write songs about
coming through, and themes that people can
pop stuff like Rihanna, Over 70 gnomes and relate to like love and
which surprisingly I err... I admit it’s a bit depression, but I want
quite liked. embarrassing, you to add my own
invited someone into uniqueness to what I
So it’s a combination your home, and they do, the music industry
of pop and rock. You see gnomes every would be boring if
have had interesting where, but I love it so every artist was the
album covers, can same, wouldn’t it?
