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So today I'm joined at Amped by Misty Miller - hello!
Hello! ....and band!
You're quite young but you've been recording for a long time
and writing for a long time.
I started writing when I was 14, 13, and then did the first album when I was 15
and since then I started playing guitar and I'm now 19 and ready to record the next album
with these guys.
You started with the ukulele, right?
Yeah, my dad got it for me, and I didn't actually know what a ukulele was so it's not like I
thought I'm going to play the ukulele, that's going to be a great idea - it was just in
my room and so I wanted to write songs and so I just used it as a tool, just to write
songs really and then I moved on to the guitar quite quickly after recording the first album.
Growing up in such an artistic family, do you think that's really
influenced the genre of music you're making?
I don't know, it's just kind of natural, I think it's gotten me used to the kind of characters
you meet in the industry and just being comfortable in studios, or at gigs or on tour or whatever
but I think it was loads of things that inspired the music I'm making - not really my family so much
but more the people I'm with, my friends. I left college and the only people
I was hanging out with were musicians and I realised they were doing what they were
enjoying, and at the time I was doing stuff I wasn't really enjoying so it made me realise
I don't care, I'll do what I want - which was difficult with the label at first
but you know a year and a half later it's worked out for me. One thing I made sure was I didn't
just want to be like another girl with an acoustic guitar, and that's what my label
really wanted to put me in, and the whole folky scene - that whole Laura Marling thing,
all that which I was never into and so I did make sure I just wasn't categorised as that
because it's not what I do.
Anywhere in the world, anywhere - if you could play live where would you play?
Ooh, I don't know, don't you guys have an answer to that - you don't want to say it
... where would you play, Dan?
I'd play in Karachi! Karachi?
I don't know, France?
I'd like to go to Mexico. Yeah, Mexico! I've always wanted to go to Mexico,
so that is my answer.
I washed my hair I washed my hair for you
I shaved my legs I shaved my legs for you too
I made the bed I made the bed for you
I broke my egg I broke my egg for you too
You wouldn't care if I moved You wouldn't care if I moved
I'm just a body to you
No, you wouldn't care if I was lying there dead next to you
I fixed my shirt‚ I fixed my shirt for you
I let it hurt‚ I let it hurt for you
I walked your dog Yeah we'd play in the park
Lay like a log Lay like a log when you'd ask
You wouldn't care if I moved
You wouldn't care if I moved If I was battered and blue
No, you wouldn't care if I was lying there dead next to you
You used to love it whenever I'd sing Now it's like you don't hear anything
You used to listen to every word that I'd say
But now it's like, the only way to get through you is if I kneel down and pray
You wouldn't care if I moved