I'm doing this as a joke and then I'm about to sort of rock this stage for 90 minutes with the songs that you all really actually listen to at weddings and parties and when you want to have a good time." So I liked the subversion of that. I thought that was a cool sort of introduction to like, "Hey, I know this is what you all expect. I remember he came on with an acoustic guitar slung around his neck, and I think like he was playing an Oasis song or something. When Jay-Z came out in Glastonbury, it was kind of interesting because British people were still sort of hanging on to the idea that Glastonbury's about guitars and it's about guitar music. I'm trying to think of what I've seen like that. They come out on stage and it's like the energy is already there. Since you're talking about the opening and when the artist walks on stage for you as a fan, what's been the greatest opening you've ever seen? They walked out to the arena and played "Stand By Me," played along to the song as it played. But after a while you start to think, "Does this kind of mean anything? Does anyone want this?" It's kind of reaffirming what I do to actually get in front of people, and so I realized the audience is really important to what I do.īaltin: I remember seeing U2 in '87 when they played the Joshua Tree Tour and they played five nights at the LA Sports Arena, and on the fifth night, they walked out with the lights still up as John Lennon's "Stand By Me," which had been their intro song the whole time, had been playing. So you could be just holed up in a sort of cocoon of the studio for a really long time. So at first I thought, "I'll be able to finish that recording, that'll be perfect." But actually, if you don't play in front of people, you don't have any feedback at all, so you don't have any sense of what you're doing, kind of connecting. Rae: I was really surprised how much I missed it, because I was coming off the end of a really long tour. So it's just gonna be a whole intense family music experience, which I'm really looking forward to.īaltin: Were you surprised at all to find how much you did or didn't miss life on the road? And then some of the people are actually my family, 'cause our MD is my husband, and I travel with my mother because we have two young children and she looks after them. Our crew and our band is like family, we've all known each other a really long time. We're starting in Orlando and we're on a bus, which I love to do, I really love that feeling on the road, you unpack into the tiny space on the bus and you're all together. And then we're doing a tour straight off the back of that. I've never played in a cruise before, I think it will be really fun. I just thought, "Whatever happens, that will be something really great to do it in the winter to be going to the Caribbean." My family are from the Caribbean, so yeah, it'd be really amazing to just be somewhere warm in January and to get to play. And I remember at the start of all this COVID stuff I'm saying, "Do you want in 2022 to go on a cruise with Joss Stone? And it starts in Aruba"? And I couldn't say yes fast enough. Rae: It's so much something to look forward to. So it's really nice being able to talk to friends and see friends and just feel like a normal life kind of creeping back in.īaltin: How excited are you then at least to know that you have a tour coming up? To have something to look forward to? Not just for playing in front of an audience, but being able to play in a room with my band, even to rehearse, and all of that has been restricted.
I've really enjoyed the few shows that we've done. But yeah, it's a shame to be separate from people and to feel like you're kind of losing social skills. So it's tempered by the fact you feel lucky that you have your health. And then I guess it's like everyone else, it's been really sad to miss friends and miss milestones.
I think at the beginning, it was really nice to have a break and a rest and be with family. It's quite bad in the UK and quite strict, and so we haven't really been anywhere for a while. We've been here for two years, almost, in a row since finishing touring at the end of last year, and then obviously since the lockdown, we haven't really been moving.
Corinne Bailey Rae: I'm in the U.K., I'm in Leeds.
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