UK-based award-winning recording artist who just released a single at the start of this month after having put out her latest album, her fourth studio album, in early August. In late September she started a tour that goes through early December and includes shows throughout the UK as well as in the Netherlands and will conclude in Ireland. Tickets have just gone on sale for her spring tour that will see her perform next March and April in the UK and Germany. Her music has had success on Blues, Americana, Independent, and Album charts in addition to the awards that she has won.
“You've got to enjoy the journey because it's a really hard journey. If you're not enjoying it, then what's the point?”
“I truly believe, like, this is an amazing journey to be on. I feel blessed that I get to do what I love. I get to travel the world. I get to make music. I have a wonderful band that come with me and amazing audiences and I'm so privileged.”
“I'm the type of person that will write up until the day we get into the studio. So, if I write a killer song that has to go on the record that day, then it's going on the album.”
“I just really wanted to stretch myself melodically. I wanted to push my voice in places that it hadn't been before. I didn't want to fall into, it's quite easy to fall into habits when you're writing songs… doing the same thing or the same sounds.”
“All artists in all stages of their career are always surrounded by neon glow. There's always lights on us. We have to give a part of ourselves away, you know, as we're performing, what we're telling the audience, what we tell people on social media and how we present ourselves online, which is very important in today's world. But there's also, like, what's under the neon glow? What are we hiding from people or what are we hiding from ourselves?”
“I feel like there's just so much more that I've got to say. I love working with lots of different people. And collaboration is definitely a part of Elles Bailey as well. And so, I'm constantly learning from the people that I work with. And then trying to put that into my story.”
“The smoky voice actually comes from me being very sick as a child and I was in a coma for 17 days.”
“I love being on stage. I love performing. I am very much about sort of bringing the audience in so that they're part of the story. And it is a very collaborative thing. You know, I give to the audience. They give back to me. And I think there's this beautiful connection that you get with live audiences that you can't get anywhere else in this musical story.”
“My last album… was… (number) one in the blues, two in the Americana, but it was (number) 42 in the official album charts. And I was slightly gutted that it hadn't been a top 40 and that was a fully independent release… I remember being in Bristol with the official charts had just announced that I was like number 12 in the midweek charts. I had HMV tweeting that they'd sold out of Elles Bailey albums.”
“I want people to feel everything that I felt when I made it, when I wrote it. And I want people to listen to this and to feel something, not for it to just pass them by, 40 minutes, and then disappear, you know. I want people to feel because that's important.”
“Regardless of how many records I sell, it's when someone comes up to me and says, ‘I walked down the aisle to your song,’ or ‘I played your song at my father's funeral.’ It’s when you are the soundtrack of someone else's life, and it's where your songs are creating meaning in someone else's life, that is success.”
“My idea of being a pop star was riding in limos and going to fancy parties. And I am so glad that that is not my life, one because I'm glad I'm not famous. I love the fact that I have this incredible fan base, but that it is, you know, I'm not striving for fame or anything like that. I'm just striving for a good honest connection and to continue and to have a career, like a lifetime career. I'm not here for a flash in the pan. I'm here for good, so that's what I just want to keep doing.”
“Enjoy the Ride”
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