The Selecters Pauline Black chats to The Observer

As The Selecter release a new album, frontwoman, Pauline Black has been chatting to UK Sunday newspaper, The Observer.

During the interview Pauline discusses a range of topics – her early life, the band, her acting career and then return to music – “I spent 10 years acting. Once I went back to music, I was happy. I don’t like being directed”

Of the current band she says “I don’t live in any of my musicians’ pockets. We don’t see one another for months, sometimes. But everybody knows that when we get on stage, something alchemical happens. Perfect, for that time. And that’s what I get off on.”

She has some interesting words on her time on the Two-Tone tour of 1979 – “There were about 30 people on the coach, and I always used to sit up the front of the bus. And there’s a photo of me, and I’m reading Alien. And it fits the way that I felt on that bus. People gave me a wide berth.”

She continues ““I enjoyed the times I was on stage, that’s it. I rarely speak to women who say that they actually enjoy touring. Particularly if they’re in a male band. Men just seem to have a better time on tour, happy getting drunk and doing the things that men do. Women never seem to be quite so… carefree.”

Black goes on to discuss her life as an adopted black child brought up in a white persons world, her abuse as a 10 year old by a neighbour, tracing her birth parents, dealing with the menopause and much more.

It’s a really open an insightful interview and is well worth a read.

You can read the whole interview HERE ON THE OBSERVER WEB SITE

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