She's such an incredible being, but I must admit I feel like the wrinkles on her face have appeared out of nowhere.  I guess i've just been paying more attention to older stuff, but I honestly don't remember her looking a day older than 30 in Head First & Tales, all of a sudden she's a mature woman, albeit the same powerhouse!

Alison goldfrapp gives everything only with her expression (bursts out laughing)

Every time her mouth widens and her eyes wrinkle, a new shrapnel crazy, the face of a speaker.

Her humour starts to trigger when she is asked to speak about what artistic direction the album takes. "Sorry, I laugh because it's a lot of why"

Why have you done this?
Why have you done that?

She repeats three times with ironic emphasis.

But why did you do It?

Again her noisy laugh is impossible to ignore.

Chained on a banal answer: she has been practicing photography for several years, it is a passion and it is also an advantage financially.

In the privacy of a Parisian hotel room overlooking a cemetery ("it does not bother me"), the behavior of the English woman is sometimes incredibly vulgar or dinguerie. Nothing in the jokes of her clips, the lightness of her music and his charisma on stage did not announce it. Goldfrapp, the band which was founded with the discreet Will Gregory, is seven albums that explore without complex the trip-hop, the electro-pop, the disco, the folk, with a variable success, but an admirable constancy in its ability to produce a handful of ballads and unforgettable hits (the whistle of Lovely Head, the beat of Strict Machine). Since their debut in 2000, the duo has embodied the current fusion of indie and mainstream music, as with its song Ooh La La, a pastiche of T-Rex praised by Madonna (who then did not hesitate to praise Goldfrapp ). And then there is Alison Goldfrapp, a nebulous diva whose story is not that of a dazzling career, a rocket put into orbit in its early youth because of her long legs and suave voice?. She started late, signed her debut album under her 32-year-old name, had time to rub off the middle roughness. So many reasons, a priori, to want to discuss with her. The occasion is given by the release of the seventh album of the duo, a bit uneven, but not devoid of charm, and barded, as solid tubes.

The breaking point is reached when she says she does not read the press. It should be noted that, in these circumstances, the interviews must be very painful. "I feel like you do not like me at all," she finally said. We must justify ourselves, reveal to him that we appreciate his music, his character, his album - and suddenly the conversation changes its appearance. "OK that's nice."

His laughter no longer stings, the questions make sense, the answers also, the self-depreciation points. She speaks of her youth in the English countryside of Hampshire in the midst of a large and well-to-do family, recalling her father, a former soldier converted into the pub, who took her to swim on full moon nights. His years in a Catholic boarding school where the encouragement of artistic awakening had electrified him. During the choir, "I remember the top of my skull vibrating and that wonderful feeling ...". Adolescence in a public school is more difficult. Dyslexic, she is bad, drops out. Disenchanted, she sniffs glue and autotatoue the finger with a needle. At 17, she moved to London against the advice of her parents. "It was crazy, but hard, but good. I was learning to survive. "After a few years smoking a firecracker in a squat, she takes control of herself, picks up a job as a singer in a dance show, then hangs up with an art school. The exuberant Tricky finds her, takes her on tour, makes her sing on her records. Finally, the meeting with the composer Will Gregoryabout the birth of Goldfrapp. Few popstars, like her, start so late; This late success may partly explain his obsession with controlling the image, erasing his age in his clips and photos.

Alison's birthday is on May 13.

Thank God for google translator!!

'Many a decent tune played on an old fiddle' !

I think that's the most interesting SE interview I've seen; maybe because the French bring a different perspective to the Anglophone interviewers. "Shrapnel crazy" is great

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