“Art is the very fabric of our lives”
4 June 2015
The singer on her upbringing, musical influences & fame
St Vincent, aka Annie Clark, is one of the hottest acts on the rock circuit at the moment with her last album, 2014’s St Vincent, featuring highly in best-of-the-year lists for Pitchfork, New York Times, NME, and Rolling Stone, while The Guardian named it as its album of the year.
2014 also saw her turn in memorable performances, from Saturday Night Live to a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony fronting a reunited Nirvana, while NPR Music acclaimed her live show as the No 1 concert of the year, raving, "Nothing was better than this". It is no surprise then, that St Vincent’s upcoming concert at the Big Top is one of the most eagerly awaited events at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival.
St Vincent features Dap-Kings drummer Homer Steinweiss and frequent collaborator McKenzie Smith of Midlake and includes the tracks ‘Bring Me Your Loves’, ‘Regret’ and ‘Digital Witness’. An eloquent blend of passion and precision, the album was widely hailed as the strongest material of Clark’s career so far, with The Guardian calling it "a straightforward triumph".
'Half Catholic and half whatever'
Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and later, after her parents separated, she relocated to Dallas where her mother and stepfather raised her and her sisters “half Catholic and half whatever.”
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