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Holly Humberstone
On Her New EP And How Nottingham Has Shaped Her As An Artist
Rising music star and East Midlands local sat down with Impact’s Gemma Cockrell to speak about her love of song-writing, working with Matty Healy from The 1975 and her connection with the city of Nottingham. Holly Humberstone started releasing music a mere two months before the start of the pandemic, and suddenly, she rose to immense fame without having ever even performed a live show. Now, just over a year after her debut EP Falling Asleep At The Wheel was released, she has delivered her second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin. “Opening back up after lockdown, it’s been so bizarre,” Humberstone admits. “Finally getting to do shows – I did my first ever headliners this summer! It’s been lovely to meet people, and be able to thank them for listening to my music. It’s weird, I’ve been releasing all of this music during lockdown. I haven’t had the chance to see that these people actually exist in real life, but I haven’t really ever known any different! I feel like I’ve missed out on a lot, but I’m so grateful that I can finally do shows.” At the time of interview, Holly was looking forward to the release of her second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin at the beginning of November. “I feel like Falling Asleep At The Wheel was a time capsule for things that happened at school with the friends I grew up with. But I started writing The Walls Are Way Too Thin when I moved to London, in a time when I felt like everything was changing and nothing was familiar anymore. London is huge, but I moved into a little room on a whim with people I didn’t know, in an area I had no clue about. I felt lonely and isolated; I had nothing homely to grasp onto. I was a bit lost and I didn’t know who I was.”
