13-06-2008 | |
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After getting back from the states two days previously, I hot stepped it over to gay Paris for a night out to celebrate Monsieur Gaultier's new fragrance Madame and then over to club Le Baron! I got the eurostar with 40 of the Ponystep crowd...uh huh...40! Fab night had all round, especially everything being edible and mostly from Laduree....heaven!! Au Revoir Siobhan Jean Paul Gaultier Paris June 4th ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://www.dirtydirtydancing.com/ |
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06-11-2009 | |
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AS: Was it your decision to leave?
SD: Hell, yes. Though there was no doubt that I was pushed out. It was clear that there was someone in that band who never wanted me in it and that’s Keisha. She never wanted me in that band and made my life a living hell. It’s funny... all these years on, I’ve grown up and I’ve left it all behind me and I’m not bothered by it. I think a lot of the memories, I have just blocked out because I don’t really like to think of the nasty stuff. I like to think about the good things in life, always focus on the positive, and Zen and all that ****. But I’ll never forgive her. Though no-one forgives that first bully in their lives, do they? No-one does. Even when you’re fifty. Though, on the other hand, it doesn’t matter. You meet so many people in the world. Why would I need to reconcile with that person? I don’t even know if she would want to. AS: Perhaps we should be talking about some of the other hundreds of people that you must have met since then. SD: Well, someone that I am really fond of is Mutya. I saw her not long ago at a party. There’s just something between me and her that is like.. We take the piss out of each other in quite a camp way. I’ll be telling her to go and have another fag and she’ll saying to go and have another glass of wine to me. We just laugh at each other. AS: Do your paths often cross unexpectedly, then? SD: Yes. It’s nice because we don’t force some huge, long-lasting friendship on each other because I do think we are worlds apart. But that’s kind of what we quite like about each other. And we have shared a history together. It’s funny, me and Mutya did the best bit of our bonding in the last three weeks before I left the band. AS: Had you already put those experiences with the band behind you when you began working on Revolution In Me? SD: Sugababes feels like it was my education and my upbringing because I didn't really go to school. As soon as I started that band, I was home-schooled. With Revolution..., I felt like I was an adult and I wrote about more political stuff, really. I was in my "teenage angst" era. I read every bit of literature that someone I admired or liked told me to read, and tried to put that to my music. Because the songs expressed quite strong views, everyone thought that I must have been, in some roundabout way, talking about the Sugababes. But I honestly wasn't. AS: Was that when you invented Shanghai Nobody, your very own pop alter-ego? SD: Yes, for the very first 7” that we put out. As a taster to what we were doing. AS: Whatever happened to her? Is she locked in a cupboard somewhere? SD: Well, it was never going to stick, though we did end up calling the band Shanghai Nobody. AS: Have you done any DJing recently? SD: Not for a while, though now that Ponystep is coming back to London... I have been hanging round that crowd for a number of years and there’s lots of familiar, very friendly faces. They’re just a riot. I only do it ‘cause it’s fun. AS: If you were to find yourself in a nightclub, what would you want to listen to? SD: Well, I am quite bhangra at the moment. AS: And when you are at home, recreating the Ghosts cover, sitting in your armchair in your white gown? SD: I have been playing this classical piece on repeat at the moment. What’s it called? (Checks her phone) Questa Notte by Ludovico Einaudi. AS: By the way, what was actually in that teacup? SD: Honey. Honey for the bees. AS: Sweet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Photos: Jonathan Hallam. Styling: Phoebe Arnold. Hair: John Vial at Realhair. Make-up: Ginni Bogado using MAC. Special thanks to The Portabello Hotel. http://www.ponystep.com/music/articl...taway_380.aspx |
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