Artist: Eliot
Interview by Tiani Worrall
Photos by She is Aphrodite

What do your days in isolation look like?

Oh Jesus! Usually, I will get up and go for a run- well lately I haven’t been- and then watch TV for part of the day. It has been pretty hard to be creative I feel in this isolation. A lot of Netflix; I have been watching Killing Eve on Stan, it is so good! I’m obsessed- it’s about an assassin. I’ve also been trying to be creative but often that doesn’t happen.

What is the first thing you are going to do when you are out of isolation?

Ooo probably go out for breakfast, I’m an eggs benedict kind of gal- with bacon! Lots of bacon!

How has life changed since you wrote circles 2 years ago?

It has changed so much, I mean I spent a lot of time last year touring so I kind of got to know myself a bit more and know myself alone, because I have spent a lot of the time touring alone and I guess I have grown so much. There is even more meaning to the songs for me because I have grown past that stage in my life and I can look back now and see how much that song has changed me and who I am. I spent a lot of time alone away from home. My next single is called “Home” after this one, so it is written about exactly that; missing home and because I come from a small country town, even just being home I feel so relaxed, just straight away. My mental health just is so much better.

What are the things that you have always wanted?

I guess with my music I have always wanted to connect with people and for me, that is in the lyrics and that is in the writing and for me, the songs that I resonate the most with are the songs that are honest and are vulnerable so I feel like I need to be like that for my audience. I guess I mean I would love to travel with my music but that doesn’t look like that is happening anytime soon haha. I just got back from Paris maybe a week before the lockdown started and all the quarantine, so it was pretty crazy but I was away for 2 months at this residency, which was a big collage thing, there was a lot of graphic designers, artists, musicians, everything. So it was insane! I had a room with a piano and I could see the Notre-Dame Cathedral from my window it was insane. But because I was alone for this time I felt really powerful and I felt like it was the first time in my life I had been alone for that long and it felt so good, I wrote a lot of music, a lot of good music. It was a life-changing experience I think! All because I got to reflect a lot, the whole idea of the residency was to feel inspired by a different cultural landscape. I would just walk around every day looking at all the beautiful buildings.

You collaborated on the Kite String Tangle’s single “Killing Time”. Can we expect future collaborations with anyone else?

I hope so but there is nothing planned but love collaborating and writing with people. It’s always one of the things I want to be doing, hopefully! There is this girl I have been listening to a lot lately her name is Lennon Stella- I am obsessed with her. Obsessed! I don’t think that will happen anytime soon.

How has your first love influenced the woman you have become today?

Oh god! I am so different from who I was then, like completely different! And I look back now and think far out why was I such a mess after that ended? I think it has made me into a stronger, more independent woman. I used to be co-dependent and couldn’t do things on my own, so yeah, I think I am much more independent and I think I can love myself a bit more then I did back then. Now I look back and I am so grateful for that.

A fan got a tattoo of the single “Find a Way”- How did this make you feel?

That is just crazy to me! Like it is so crazy! I am just so happy, that is the kind of thing I was talking about before with people connecting with your music, like to get a tattoo, that is next level! I don’t have tattoos myself so when someone the other day tagged me in another tattoo; I was like, what!! This is crazy! Especially because these songs are so personal and they are written for me; to see I can have that effect on someone is pretty insane.

What is your superpower?

What is my superpower? I am good at puzzles and finding the piece that you need. I have just only started, Mum and I am going a bit stir-crazy doing puzzles.