“THE first time me and Bobby stood in the same room was at an aftershow party fora Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds gig in London. Bobby was chatting with Nick and Warren, making them laugh about something. We didn’t meet that evening, but my first impression of him was that he seemed quite jolly and very well dressed! The first time we properly met was at a Hedi Slimane YSL show in Paris where I came all dressed in leather.
Bobby knew who I was by then and had heard my music, but in retrospectI think our exchange of numbers that day was mainly based on my outfit!
“The collaboration on Utopian Ashes was very easy and intuitive. Bobby and Andrew Innes came to Paris twice to work with me and Johnny Hostile in our studio. We wrote the basis ofa few songs for whichI wrote lyrics. Then in London, Bobby and Innes worked on more ideas. My parts came to me quite effortlessly, I didn’t want to overthink things. Most of the vocals were recorded in one or two takes, harmonies were ‘improvised’ and sounded great.
Early on, we discovered that our vocals worked very well together, it was like magic.