PHOTOGRAPHY
Joseph Marchant
L O C AT I O N
Watch House Cafe, London
MODELS
Emma Topolski, Ian Cares
Using Mindfulness to Light the Way Forward INTERVIEWER: ADRIAN DREW INTERVIEWEE: CHILDCARE
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ust a few months ago, I was fortunate enough to attend Latitude Festival in England and see two of my closest friends perform. Whilst there, I caught half of Bombay Bicycle Club’s show - a band that I’ve listened to a handful of times but whose music I don’t know particularly well. Regardless, I was blown away. The band as a whole were amazing, but their female vocalist really caught my attention. Not only was she an incredible singer, but her stage presence, energy and style really stood out to me. Fast forward a couple of months and Joe and I were preparing for our next photoshoot with a band called Childcare. I hadn’t heard of them before, but our friend at All Stripes PR, Alice French, had sent them our away. I had no idea what to expect. Least of all,
however, was I anticipating that Bombay’s female vocalist, Emma Topolski - the very one that blew us away at Latitude Festival - would walk into the room to greet us alongside her band member, Ian Cares. Life has a strange manner of unfolding. I guess that’s all part of the journey, to cheesily reference this edition’s title. Sometimes things happen in mysterious ways that we can’t really explain. And, in many ways, that’s how London’s alternative slink rock band, Childcare, came about - but more on that in a second.. Sitting down in Embankment’s Victoria Gardens, sun piercing through the clouds and the sound of dog walkers strolling through, Emma and Ian gave me the pleasure of hearing everything about their music, life stories, and how they got to where they are today.
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