{"id":6768,"date":"2024-11-22T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:07:54","slug":"blog-interview-eva-gadd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/blog-interview-eva-gadd\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: Eva Gadd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_EA4607755649-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_EA4607755649-1.jpeg 766w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_EA4607755649-1-293x300.jpeg 293w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_EA4607755649-1-59x60.jpeg 59w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1JmpzXlOJX0vziaNFiNd8g?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><b>Congratulations on the release of \u201cI Don\u2019t Talk\u201d how does it feel?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much. It feels really great having a project out as it is, let alone one that&#8217;s a collaboration with such amazing talents Blue Lab Beats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s a four track EP, what\u2019s your favourite track?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When I listen to the project, the song I&#8217;m most drawn to is &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Talk&#8217;. I think it&#8217;s a really fun track on the EP! Sonically, I love the groove and the cheeky feel it has. I also love the\u00a0subject\u00a0it&#8217;s about and I feel really proud of that one especially.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>You recorded it with the incredible Blue Lab Beats. What was it like working with them?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Working with Blue Lab Beats has been the most insane opportunity for me. They have such a unique and recognisable sound so to be able to write the topline to these tracks has been amazing and really fun. Also, whilst in the studio with them I got to witness their musicianship and how they craft tracks, which was so insightful.<\/p>\n<p>Now that all the tracks are released, it&#8217;s such a great feeling and I feel very lucky!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What lessons did you learn from them?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When writing the topline to these tracks, I knew the songs deserved an interesting vocal. It pushed me to try and take the melody&#8217;s where perhaps you wouldn&#8217;t expect it to go. When we were in the studio together, I was always in awe of how quickly David could find each intricate harmony line for my vocal to help give it that lovely Soul\/RnB feel. When recording vocals, it was fascinating learning techniques from Namali on how to get a good take, being precise with each word and also how whispering the words over the track can give the vocal this lovely texture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favourite memory of the sessions?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Being an artist at the start of my career, going into sessions with Blue Lab as it is has been such a huge opportunity, let alone witnessing them make something beautiful on the spot. My favourite memory from the sessions was watching David and Namali&#8217;s musical chemistry and ability to come up with the wonderful moments you hear in the tracks. It was so inspiring!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019re a singer songwriter from Oxford, how did it all begin for you?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Singing has always been something I loved and always grew up doing. My dad and his side of the family were always musical and I heard him playing and writing music from a very young age. I felt music was\u00a0one of the few things that came very naturally to me. I studied music performance at college and university but it wasn&#8217;t until I was 18 that I started writing music. I have been writing and performing my own Pop\/Soul music every since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What did you listen to growing up?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was always the big powerhouse singers that I grew up listening to such as Witney Houston and Celine Dion. When I got to a teenager and started studying music, I discovered the iconic jazz singers &#8211; Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and the more contemporary &#8211; Amy Winehouse. I was encouraged to sing Jazz standards at college and it was something I absolutely loved doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>You have performed live shows for BBC introducing at truck festival, what was it like getting the call for that?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Truck has a special place in my heart because it&#8217;s my local festival and have loved going when I was younger. I remember putting out into the universe that I would love to play Truck 2023 and felt really ready for it. However, I accidentally missed the deadline to apply to play the festival that year. I was absolutely gutted. However, only a few weeks after, I got an email from Dave Gilyeat at BBC Introducing Oxford asking if I&#8217;d like to do it and I was over the moon! It felt surreal going and getting the opportunity to play at such a big festival!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us a funny story from the road.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I once did a gig where I played a few songs on piano and then stood up to sing whilst accompanied by my guitarist. However, the microphone lead got caught up around my piano as I stood up. I carried on performing the song until a member of the audience thought they&#8217;d be helpful and try and untangle the lead as I sang. They ended up unplugging the microphone and everything mid song. It&#8217;s funny now!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What are you listening to at the moment?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Of course I have &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Talk&#8217; by Eva Gadd &amp; Blue Lab Beats on repeat!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As well as that I&#8217;m listening to Older (and Wiser) by Lizzie McAlpine, Blue by Joni Mitchell, MARO and Jordan Rakei.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What are you looking forward to doing next?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on some new music at the moment in the hopes to release it early 2025. I&#8217;d also love to perform at some festivals in the summer!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations on the release of \u201cI Don\u2019t Talk\u201d how does it feel?\u00a0 Thank you so much. It feels really great having a project out as it is, let alone one that&#8217;s a collaboration with such amazing talents Blue Lab Beats.\u00a0 It\u2019s a four track EP, what\u2019s your favourite track?\u00a0 When I listen to the project, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,181,40,174,218,172,247,139,132,30,185,180,149,142,73,150,175,162,54,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-blues","category-dance","category-electronica","category-folk","category-hip-hop","category-interview","category-jazz","category-lyricist","category-music","category-neo-soul","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-uk","category-uk-hip-hop","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}