Jesse Terry plays Brighton date on back of new album

Jesse Terry plays a duo gig at The Brunswick, Brighton on Friday, October 18 at 7.30pm on the back of his new album Arcadia.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspaper. It's lovely

00:06this afternoon to speak to Jesse Terry who is in the UK and you're on tour with a new

00:11album and you're playing Brighton before long and the album sounds a really fascinating

00:16one, an intriguing one. You're saying that you took yourself off stretches of isolation

00:21to write this album. Why was that?

00:25Well it's just wonderful as a writer if you can fully focus and just be so immersive into

00:33that environment. So I personally really enjoy that, only for short stretches but for a week

00:40or so where you're literally living and breathing music around the clock, it can be really productive.

00:48Yeah, and it sounds like you were saying that you went back into your own past in the writing,

00:54what were you doing, what was the intention? Yeah, I think about that as I'm writing because

01:00I don't enjoy wallowing in the past. I like moving forward and looking forward but I've

01:08found that sometimes I need to and I think probably other human beings need to examine

01:13the past to learn from it and then to move forward. So writing songs in that way has been

01:19like free therapy for me. Brilliant, it sounds great and you're currently in pretty much my

01:26favourite city, Newcastle, you're heading down south to Brighton, you love playing UK don't you?

01:33I love it, I mean the history here is fascinating to me and it's like a working holiday being here

01:40even though it's busy and I love the people, you know, I love the people don't take themselves

01:45too seriously here and are always, you know, in the mood to joke around about something. I

01:50always leave the UK feeling, you know, really refreshed and rejuvenated.

01:56Oh, that's good to hear because that will bring you back, won't it?

01:59Oh yeah, forever man, yeah, I'll keep coming as long as they give me gigs here which

02:05knock on wood has worked so far.

02:07Fantastic, well lovely to speak to you, thanks for your time, good luck with the

02:11payday. Thank you.