![]() “The songs are very different to Black Box Recorder,” she enthuses. While in hibernation she’s been penning her own material. ![]() “I had all these messages on my website asking where I’d been, saying that I’d not been around for ages, saying I’d been a real dark horse – which I quite like,” offers Sarah. Yet through all the racket, Sarah’s distinctive, cut-glass tones are precise and recorded in their entirety. My new fangled digital recording device picks up the sound of people drinking, talking and scraping chairs about, but doesn’t pick up my questions at all. ![]() To discover this I meet Sarah in the salubrious surrounds of The Kilburn pub, prior to her first solo London show, upstairs at the Luminaire. Half a decade later, Nixey is emerging from the creative chrysalis of Black Box Recorder as a fully fledged solo artist. On vocals, whispering about pubescent boys and girls in relationship dramas was a quintessential English waif – Sarah Nixey. #WHISPERINGS PIANO SOLO SERIAL#Right up there with them was the incongruous manifestation, in 2000, of misanthropic Auteurs lynchpin Luke Haines, a serial nearly-hit wonder, and sometime Jesus & Mary Chain member and absinthe importer John Moore, in the Top 20 as Black Box Recorder with a little ditty about the birds and the bees called The Facts Of Life. Nirvana‘s Kurt Cobain blatantly miming Smells Like Teen Spirit All About Eve‘s technical difficulties Chaka Khan‘s big black bird costume. ![]() Top of the Pops has, down the years, produced many a memorable sight. ![]()
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