“This record took a long time to write, so I didn’t so much pour, as dribbled, my heart out on it”

Marika Hackman’s recent released LP, Big Sigh, is going to be in my favourites list come year end. Of that I am certain, so it was an exciting prospect when we learned we were getting to chat with the UK songwriter. Join us here as we discuss themes of confession, catharsis and confusion. Marika talks candidly on what it is like to perform deeply personal songs on stage and how she pimped her pooch out for a bit of social media cred. Big Sigh, is in Marika’s own words a song about her, rather than about her inhabiting a character. Our chat is honest and insightful, and I have to say that, as Marika does read her own press. This is part one of two. Cheers. (Image: Steve Gullick)