20 Questions with...Tracey Thorn

With the release of her solo record, Out of The Woods, Richard Hughes put those 20 Questions to the Everything But The Girl vocalist and song writer, Tracey Thorn. Who knew she was so old?

1. Describe your sound in 3 words.
Absolutely fucking gorgeous.
2. Diet coca-cola or normal coke?
Normal, sugar is essential.
3. What would be your ideal holiday?
Days by the pool, nights in the club – oooh look, i just had it!
4. What’s the best cure for a hangover?
Berocca, water, N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine, more berocca, some coffee, and a fried breakfast.
5. What’s on your rider?
No longer have one, sadly.
6. How do you get ready for a live show?
Too long ago to remember, though i seem to recall it involved brandy.
7. Favourite song to play live?
The lady in red.
8. When was the last time you told a lie?
Possibly just a few seconds ago.
9. Who would win in a fight, a stoat or a goat and why?
They would not be fighting, they would be at peace, in a boat, on a moat.
10. What was the last album you bought?
Same as everyone else, arcade bloody fire.
11. What’s your pet hate?
Homeopathy
12. Dead or alive. What 5 acts would you have play with you at a festival.
Jeff Buckley, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield, Joe Strummer, Arthur Russell. Shit, they are ALL dead.
13. Desert Island Disc? Pick only one.
Uptown top rankin by Althea and Donna
14. Most memorable on the road story.
Being chased around Florence by a mob of fans, who sadly thought we were matt bianco.
15. What’s the best thing about being in Moll Flanders?
Lots of sex, I imagine.
16. Do you read your own reviews?
Course.
17. Tell us a fact about yourself we probably don’t already know.
I’m 93.
18. Are you a morning bird or a night fox?
Night.
19. If you could travel back in time where would you set the dial?
Anytime as long as it was after discovery of anaesthesia and penicillin
20. Least favourite person in the universe.
Jeremy Clarkson.

Links: Tracey Thorn [official site] [myspace]