a challenging position to be in at the moment as there are so many female artists out there, but there are also lots of indie bands. I don’t really see anyone bracketing all those together in the same way. The female artists are all really different so it is a shame that people just categorise them in one way. I honestly think they are all great but you couldn’t really put me in the same box as Florence & The Machine.” “I used to play the violin, then the drum. It was when I was learning the drums that I started listening to all different types of music. Then at 15 I taught myself keyboard, which was only on my Grandma’s old keyboard. It was at this point that I started writing. As I wrote more I got better.” With music already running through her veins, Sarah never intentionally set out on the road to a music career. Her initial recordings were mere experiments. Like many of the current wave of electro-inspired artists, Sarah has drawn influence from the 1980s. Perhaps the reason for the inspiration Interviews can often be somewhat surreal. Two is more logical than it is calculated. “My parents people meet with the sole intention of the one have an awesome record collection so I just used finding out about the other. It is a bit like a date to listen to all of it and learned. Japan and Tears but without the romantic interest. However, there For Fears were two of my biggest influences.” are occasions when a face to face meeting is not feasible and this allows for technological error. Sadly Sarah MacIntosh aka The Good Natured “It is quite a challenging poand I have been unable to set a mutually agree- sition to be in at the moment able time to meet, so instead we swap numbers as there are so many female and set a time to call. However, phone issues artists out there, but there are mean that our conversation is stifled by poor signal and constant loss of connection. Not the also lots of indie bands. I don’t ideal setting for an interview, but Sarah lives up really see anyone bracketing to her pseudonym and takes it all in good nature all those together in the same as our disrupted dialogue takes shape.
way.”
The Good Natured will inevitably fall under the branding of a new female artist joining the current swathe of successful British female soloists. Yet Sarah disagrees with her labelling. “It is quite 6
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A true DIY artist, Sarah started experimenting with songwriting at 15, whilst her initial recordings were all done in her own bedroom. By
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