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Rosie Oddie, all set to launch her first single |
Rosie’s set to bloom
INTERVIEW: ROSIE ODDIE
ROSIE Oddie, daughter of Bill Oddie, releases her first single, Genni’s Song, next month.
Rosie, 21 grew up in South End Green before moving to Camden at the beginning of the year.
Likened to Ian Dury, she has also been known to accuse Lily Allen of stealing her sound.
She played the 02 Wireless festival three weeks ago, and was the draw of the day at South End Green’s Christmas festival last year. Catch her at the Dublin Castle on July 31, or listen to her at www.rosieoddie.com
CC: How would you describe your music for people who don’t know you?
RO: It’s funky, a little bit rappy but not so much any more. I find it difficult to describe. It’s lots of different things.
CC: You drink in the Hawley Arms. Tell the secret: why is it such a celeb magnet?
RO: It was great when it first got going. Three guys own it, it’s a really nice pub with a nice atmosphere in the centre of Camden. But there’s a lot of people going there to see if they can spot people.
CC: What do you like and dislike about Camden Town?
RO: Camden’s great, it’s lovely. It’s like living in a little village because you know so many people. It’s like there’s no reason to ever leave, which is good and bad. And there’s everything you could ever need here. We love Camden. The Marathon Bar is amazing. I love it, when it’s the French Elvis guy playing… he’s my favourite person in Camden.
On the bad side, it’s getting scaggier. I think it’s getting a bit more rough at the moment and everyone’s really feeling it. Where there used to be one Camden crazy lingering by the Tube there’s now a group of 15.
CC: Tell me about when you played at the South End Green festival last year?
RO: I went to turn on the Christmas lights (laughs). That was really amusing.
CC: You must have known a lot of people in the crowd?
RO:Yeah, it was all the old faces. South End Green is like a proper little village, so it was all the old greengrocers and the people that run the newsagents saying how much I’ve grown up. It was lovely, it was really sweet. I really love South End Green.
CC: There has been speculation about who would win in a fight between you and Lily Allen. What do you think?
RO: I don’t know, pretty even? She’d probably whip my ass. I’d be very scared of her, I’d never entice her into having a fight with me, ever.
CC: Have you been in a fight?
RO: Yeah, loads of times. When I get drunk I get really aggressive, but only for the right reasons, with bouncers. I had a fight with a 42-year-old woman once, there was a lot of hair-pulling. When I was 14 I got beaten up by identical twins. It was a really weird experience.
CC: Why do you take people on then – you’re not a big girl, are you?
RO: No. I never do it for a stupid reason, I overreact when people are rude, it really gets me when people talk down to people.
CC: Are you fighting for justice and equality?
RO: Not on a global scale, just the justice of letting me into a club if I have ID.
CC: Where does that come from?
RO: I had a lot of trouble with teachers. My parents brought me up to be equal. They never spoke down to me, so if teachers tried to tell me what to do, because they were an adult and I was a kid, I didn’t get that.
CC: There was a point as a teenager where you were offered record deals but you said ‘wait’. Where did that come from?
RO: When I started writing music I was 13, but it started to collide with my social life and there was a possibility of me going off. I didn’t even like going to the studio that much because I was missing out on the weekend’s events. I didn’t like missing out. I didn’t want music to distract from growing up.
CC: I suppose I better ask you about your Dad as well.
RO: He’s really happy he loves it, thinks its amazing. He loves everything all his kids do. |
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