Alyce Platt with Rebecca Bana, Eric Bana and Deborra-Lee Furness at the launch of Funny Little World
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I just want you to know I've still got my celebrity
Sale of the Century Longines watch, thank you for
that!
Have you really? Did I give it you? Was I doing the
gift shop then?
Yes, it was about 1990. I remember we had a chat
backstage... Now back to you, which is what this is
about, not my watches... What did you want to
achieve with the latest album? Because you've put
out other albums and this one's really intriguing,
there's lots of different textures and moods... what
did you want to express with this?
Well the previous one, the album before this was
called Beautiful Death, and that was very obscure... I
don't know if you've heard that one, it's really quite
soundscapey. I teamed up with a very alternative
young gentleman, who's in a band called the Hungry
Ghost who were signed by Sonic Youth. That album
got a lot of rave reviews, but I reckon about two
people heard it. That was me being very
experimental. And then what happened – people were
saying how come it took so long – I got married, my
husband is a musician and he had three children, and
then I lost my dad and my brother, so things happened
in life to me that sort of took me... I wasn't in that
space of getting my guitar out and musing...
Then I was burning to get back there and write and
perform. I say to people this album has been three
years in the making, because it was three years ago
that I approached Renan Goksin, the manager of a
place called Claypots, who puts on live music every
day in St Kilda, which is just awesome and really
supportive. Mostly jazz, and what I do isn't – it's got a
pastiche of all sorts of genres, but it's more kind of
adult, "melancholy pop" is what I like to call it.
I was road-testing a few things, I was playing around
with some covers and writing some songs, putting