'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Michael Smith, Journalist

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Sister Singers
"It just felt like hanging out with my girlfriends, talking and singing songs."
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The Two Of Us
“Tim is a brilliant songwriter and such a great acoustic musician, so he just seemed like the perfect choice for so many reasons.”
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The Funny Side
“For instance, I was playing in this place and a politician said to me, ‘Shut the fffffff…ront door.’”
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In Her Own Voice
“Working solo, you can actually sit there and enjoy singin’ because you don’t have to compete with drums bashin’ and loud guitars.”
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Space Cowboys
“People are always trying to label what you do, and to me our music should be hippie baroque.”
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A Beautiful Beast
“What I realised is that that particular beast is bigger than I am”
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Twin Assault
“We were just fantasising about the year we could have. We had no idea that it could actually get this big.”
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More Than Just Guitar
“I’ve just got a perspective, I think, on this type of music that I hope to be able to, you know, pass on to folks”
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The New Kid
Forget bedroom music, Sahara Beck's latest tunes are coming straight outta the kitchen.
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It's Going To Take A Lot To Kill Frank Turner
"Fuck you. I’m still here. It’s going to take more than that to kill me."
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Ten Years On
“Look, we’re all creative people, we’re gonna be spending a lot of time together and you know what happens when we do that"
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Taking Back Paris
“I wanted to completely ‘dig in’ to this wonderful new experience of living in New York, and so the English language made sense”