I just knew I had to be something different to everyone else and get as far away as possible.ĭL: How did H O G happen, how did you meet your bandmates, Sam, Sean, and Becky? Do you feel like you have a good support network around you, with Becky, a fellow female musician in the band, and your boyfriend Sean alongside you also ? I knew when I left school I wanted to be a rock star, a serial killer hippie woman, or a famous artist. I was constantly in trouble with teachers, listening to them lecture me every day that I’d amount to nothing and that my dreams of being a singer were unrealistic because of my attitude. I’d do weird stuff all the time just from boredom and frustration that life was just so dull and slow and repetitive. I once laid down on the path outside school staring up at the sky with my earphones in watching as people walked past me. I’d wander around school in a daze just looking at all these fake people, seeing teachers fake laughing with each other, and wondering if anyone was even happy. I just never felt real, always feeling like at any moment a massive asteroid would hit earth and kill us all. I never wanted to grow up or lose my innocence, my friends left me for boyfriends and I was always in trouble for being disruptive. LT: I hated school! That routine of waking up every morning and living the same day over and over again, I had a bleak outlook on life pretty early on. It was a weird dynamic then between myself and the producer as what I wanted and what he wanted began to change.ĭL: What was Lauren Tate like at school then? A model student or a bit of a rebel, did you enjoy school? I knew exactly what I wanted for the first time, even down to the final sound of the produced song. Writing my own songs gave me control and confidence in the studio, which is something I didn’t have while I was just singing the songs Pete had written for me. Only when I learned how to play guitar did I learn how to write music for myself though. I used to lock myself in the garage and pretend I couldn’t hear my mum calling me because I really didn’t want to go. I hated guitar practice and I hated going to my guitar lessons every Wednesday night. I was allowed to record there for free, Pete always pushing me to take guitar practice seriously, showing me different chords, and encouraging me to get my dad’s old Westbury guitar out of the loft and become the next Joan Jett. After a nervous ‘yes’, 2 to 3 times a week for the next 3 years, I worked with him in his home studio, recording cover songs, singing while he played guitar, and talking about my future. Then when I turned 14, a producer called Pete contacted me to ask if I’d like to collaborate on a song writing project with him. Back then I had many singing teachers come and go but I never stuck to it, I really hated doing the competitions. My mum always pushed me to take it seriously and believe in myself, getting me my first recording experience in a studio when I was 12, which was terrifying. LT: I’ve been singing since I could talk, always annoying my little sister whenever we’d play a game of Barbie or Bratz dolls and I’d throw mini concerts halfway through the game. Can you tell us how you got into all this in the first place and what made you pick up a guitar, why not a trumpet or a cello? and Europe, building up a huge dedicated fan base. Since then you’ve toured all over the U.K. You grew up in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, you’ve been at this now since you were 14 or 15, rising steadily, releasing your first solo album at a very young age, then forming your band ‘ Hands Off Gretel‘. NSG’s David Lancaster caught up with Hands Off Gretel singer Lauren Tate (aka Delilah Bon), to chat about Bratz dolls, wanting to be a “Hippie serial killer” and doing 4 encores after a gig in Stuttgart!ĭL: Hiya mate, thanks again for the interview opportunity.
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