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something slow or if I’ve heard something that’s kind of sparked my interest like if I’ve heard a
story that has inspired lyrics or I’ve heard a song that I loved the feeling and the emotion of it,
that can kick it off and then I’ll probably generally try to get the music, like I play guitar mostly,
so I try to get the guitar chords to fit then with
what I’m trying to say, so I’ll usually do the

chords and the melody at the same time. That’s
generally my pattern of working, but I also
work now with my husband, Paul, and he
usually contributes in terms of structure, in
terms of chords, in terms of he will come up
with ideas of how we’ll just go to the bridge or

change the middle, he’s created all those ideas
and he’s very good. I put down tonnes of demos
on my phone. Usually just singing bits of ideas
and he’ll go, I hear something in that one, or I
don’t hear something in that one. That’s great
because you can get lost in a fog yourself

thinking something’s good or something’s bad,
so that’s usually how I collaborate with my
husband most of the time.

BiTS: Where I Belong came out in 2017, I think,
that’s a long time ago Grainne. Have you got

anything on the stocks now?

GD: Yes, we’ve actually just released a new
single Blue Skies. I don’t know if you’ve heard it
yet. It was released in April and we’ve got
another single coming out at the end of May, a

song called Mercy. They’re two songs from the
new album and we’ve got the new album nearly
finished. It will be released in the fall, but
things have been moved around and things have
been changed because of the whole COVID-19
and everything. We were due to finish it. We

were doing it with another brilliant producer,
Troy Miller, in London, and it’s just the way
things have gone with the whole COVID emergency. We’ve had to stop those plans with one more
session left to do together and we haven’t been able to complete that but we will get there but
we’ve got a few singles ready and one has been released and one is being released at the end of
this month.

BiTS: I’d say that’s wonderful news. I’d like to hear that. The tours that you were planning to do
towards the end of the year have been scrubbed, have they?