Thursday, 17 December 2009
Monday, 7 December 2009
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It’s 8.40 am and the light is streaming through the crooked windows of the quirky coffee shop in which we have agreed to meet. As I enter I see sat in the far corner in torn up jeans, a vintage sweater and some studded biker boots sipping her frothy cappuccino coolly is Hannah Coxon the front woman of the “unique musical gathering” as she described her band Coxons’ Jukebox.
She leans back on her chair to wave me over with enthusiasm. Her long blond curls tumbling over the seat. She greets me in the husky voice that sounds like she has had a few too many rough nights and gives her music that edgy sound that makes it so unique. She laughs as I ask her how many cigarettes she smokes to get it to sound like that; “I don’t smoke! I was born rock and roll so its been like this pretty much all my life, my older brother used to call me his little grizzly because I sounded like a bear!” I ask about her brother if they get on as he is so much older than her she exclaims “oh like a house on fire! He was always my cool older brother and so obviously I idolised him. He used to take me to all his mates gigs when he was at Art College in London and I was at secondary school, when his band used to play he sometimes used to let me do back up if I ‘acted cool’ which I loved every moment of so he is probably to blame for my being in this business as he gave me my first real taste of it”
She picks at her chipped black nail polish as I ask about her upbringing in Middlesbrough, she grins “I loved it, I did everything kids should do climbed trees played out on the street it was an absolutely brilliant! We weren’t rich and our house was pretty small but it was a good place to grow up, people with boring upbringings and everything handed on a plate to them don’t make good tunes, they have nothing to write about” she says with a wink. I ask her how she is inspired, if her background does inspire what she writes. She feels that if her background and life didn’t inspire her too write then her music wouldn’t be as real and “no one wants fakery” she chuckles throatily. “My music is what I love it comes from the soul, cliché but true, I can’t think of anything better to do than singing my songs id love it just as much if I hadn’t earned so much credit for it but it is the best way I can think of to earn a living! I am no nine ‘til five girl that’s for sure!”
The band have played Glastonbury, Leeds/Reading festival, t in the park , Wembley , the O2 arena and are now setting off an their American tour but Hannah seems to be so grounded and mellow, I ask her how she does it she answers “like I said, born rock and roll” ● the American tour starts on the January 2nd and the album “got a dime“ is released December 18th 2009
She leans back on her chair to wave me over with enthusiasm. Her long blond curls tumbling over the seat. She greets me in the husky voice that sounds like she has had a few too many rough nights and gives her music that edgy sound that makes it so unique. She laughs as I ask her how many cigarettes she smokes to get it to sound like that; “I don’t smoke! I was born rock and roll so its been like this pretty much all my life, my older brother used to call me his little grizzly because I sounded like a bear!” I ask about her brother if they get on as he is so much older than her she exclaims “oh like a house on fire! He was always my cool older brother and so obviously I idolised him. He used to take me to all his mates gigs when he was at Art College in London and I was at secondary school, when his band used to play he sometimes used to let me do back up if I ‘acted cool’ which I loved every moment of so he is probably to blame for my being in this business as he gave me my first real taste of it”
She picks at her chipped black nail polish as I ask about her upbringing in Middlesbrough, she grins “I loved it, I did everything kids should do climbed trees played out on the street it was an absolutely brilliant! We weren’t rich and our house was pretty small but it was a good place to grow up, people with boring upbringings and everything handed on a plate to them don’t make good tunes, they have nothing to write about” she says with a wink. I ask her how she is inspired, if her background does inspire what she writes. She feels that if her background and life didn’t inspire her too write then her music wouldn’t be as real and “no one wants fakery” she chuckles throatily. “My music is what I love it comes from the soul, cliché but true, I can’t think of anything better to do than singing my songs id love it just as much if I hadn’t earned so much credit for it but it is the best way I can think of to earn a living! I am no nine ‘til five girl that’s for sure!”
The band have played Glastonbury, Leeds/Reading festival, t in the park , Wembley , the O2 arena and are now setting off an their American tour but Hannah seems to be so grounded and mellow, I ask her how she does it she answers “like I said, born rock and roll” ● the American tour starts on the January 2nd and the album “got a dime“ is released December 18th 2009
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