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ROSEHIP TEAHOUSE WHO ARE YOU?
My name is Faye and I’m from the band Rosehip Teahouse. WHAT DO YOU DO? I make indie/bedroom pop from Cardiff in Wales. I play guitar and sing in the band and tend to write the songs.
how I’m feeling without turning to destructive coping mechanisms. It’s a bit of a life-saver really. I also just really really love playing music with my friends. There isn’t another feeling like it.
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? In literal world terms, everything is a bit of a mess really isn’t it? Cardiff is back WHY DO YOU DO IT? Songwriting for me has always in lockdown, so I’m missing been a coping mechanism and my friends and missing playing gigs sooo much. But a way to explore my feelings. on a positive note, we have I used to find it very difficult recently signed with Big Indie to talk about what I was Records which is really really going through, spending way exciting. We’re going to be too much time in my head worrying and ruminating about releasing an EP with them on the 9th December called things I couldn’t change. ‘Fine’. Each song on the When I started songwriting, I record marks a very personal was suddenly able to express event or feeling for me and myself through lyrics and I’m so excited to release them that music, and that was back into the world where such a life-changing thing for they came from. We feel really me. I like to use my songs to fortunate to still be able to talk about difficult subjects release music, despite the too, like mental health and music industry being such emotional dysregulation. I a difficult thing to navigate live with mental illness, and at the moment as the world music for me is a way to continues to fall apart around talk about this and process it. There are two singles out Words by Faye Rogers / Rosehip Teahouse
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already, and there will be more over the coming months and you can pre-order the EP digitally or on limited edition Vinyl from our bandcamp or website! WHAT'S THE HOT TOPIC? I think that the hot topic in music right now is diversity and representation. Year after year we are presented with an overwhelming amount of cis white male musicians and bands, particularly on festival line-ups and it’s getting a little tiring. I think it’s time we started giving more of a platform and more time to marginalised communities. We need representation from BAME communities, LGBTQ+. Let’s shine a light on trans musicians, non cismale fronted bands. We all need to work harder to make this happen and make it a normality As I said, we have a new EP "Fine" coming out with Big Indie Records on 9th December and you can preorder yourself a copy now!!! Photography by Adam Whitmore
