Joan Armatrading - Live at Asylum Chapel (Contains Signed Insert)

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There's an element of fate and being in the right place at the right time,” she explains, ruminating on her success.

Of course, the livestream was a fantastic way to experience some of the new songs on Consequences. I loved seeing you dance around to “Natural Rhythm”. It’s impossible not to move to that song. In thinking of the record, I’d love to know more about the interplay between the bass and the drums on that song. There's no planning for that. You literally can't plan for that. You can't say, ‘Well, I'm going to be the best in the world and sell out every single stadium'.

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In a video interview, you said how “Already There” was a way of talking about “love at first sight” in another way. I love the line “While you were falling in love, I was already there”. It’s so on point.

At the time of writing that song and “Kissin and A Huggin'”, “Help Yourself,”“Like Fire”, all of those things, I was very much into strong acoustic guitar-playing. I mean I still am, but I was really like, “I need to hit this thing really hard”. I needed the rhythm, so that’s why I would come up with those types of very rhythmic, percussive “digging in” songs. That would have been the motivation behind all of those ones that I’m mentioning — to play aggressive guitar.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. I want the songs to complement each other as they go through. You try not to have something where you think, That’s really jarring next to that. You want them to complement each other as they’re going along. As I do on all my tours, I spend a lot of time working out the setlist and just making sure that I get, as best I can, the right song next to the right song. I just try to make it sound as good as I possibly can and have people feel entertained and just really enjoy the experience.

She and girlfriend Maggie Butler entered a civil partnership on 2 May 2011, in the Shetland Isles. Show moreI have to say, the song that excited me during the livestream was “Mama Mercy”. You could have heard me shout “Yes!” all the way from New York. I’ve always wondered what was the driving force behind that song when you wrote it? I thought to myself, ‘What got them to the shouting stage that they are actually in public giving us this performance?' Unlike many artists, the singer-songwriter behind timeless songs such as Drop The Pilot and Love & Affection has achieved longevity through consistency and gentle evolution. Sheffield, Rob (18 June 2021). "The Eternal Cool of Joan Armatrading". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021 . Retrieved 27 December 2021.