This month on The Allender Calendar, I speak to the fabulous Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze, whose lipstick-smeared and glitter-drenched album Rats in Paradise is one of my favourites of the year. And Emily very kindly gave me permission to include snippets from the album in the episode!

We talk about the songwriting process, Emily's day job teaching at BIMM (the British and Irish Modern Music Institute) in Bristol, and about her literary and musical influences. We also frequently get sidetracked and end up chatting about queuing in pubs and the concept of Alan Partridge narrating Joyce's Ulysses.

Please check out Emily's album here:

https://sugarshackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rats-in-paradise

And you can follow her on Instagram here:

https://www.instagram.com/emilybreeze66/?hl=en

Emily is playing a few shows in December:

6 Dec: The Prince Albert - Stroud

7 Dec: Burdall's Yard - Bath

13 Dec: The Old Pint Pot - Salford

Also, I'm playing at The Prince Albert in Stroud on 5 December if you fancy coming down!

If you want to support the podcast, you can buy me a coffee here:

https://buymeacoffee.com/robinallender

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