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THE BiTS INTERVIEw: Laura Evans

Laura Evans (born 27 August 1986) is a British actress and

singer, best known for her role as Madison Square-Gardens
in the popular BBC television children's show The Basil

Brush Show and more currently known as a blues singer. She

is about to start (November 2025) a tour to promote her new

album “Out of the Dark”. Later in the month she is

supporting Robben Ford.

She was a finalist in the 2025 UK Blues Federation, Blues

Challenge.

Ian McKenzie spoke to her at her home.

BiTS: Right Laura, let's make a start. Tell me something about how you
got into music in the first place. I know you went to stage school, but

were you kind of enthusiastic about singing and performing at a very
young age?

LE: Yes, yes, definitely. I started singing, I think as soon as I could
speak, and I'm from a family of singers in Wales. So yeah, I've been
singing since I was about six, I would think.

BiTS: Tell me about going to the stage school then.

LE: So when I was about 14, I auditioned to go to Sylvia Young
Theatre School because we used to get a magazine every week called
The Stage, and they were holding scholarship auditions. So I begged
my mum and dad to ask if I could audition and then they let me and
then I ended up winning the scholarship and going there. So I left

Wales when I was about 14 and moved to London.

BiTS: You make it all sound very easy. I'm pretty sure a lot of it was
pretty hard, wasn't it?

LE: [Chuckles] Oh, it was really hard. I think that was probably the
hardest thing, actually, leaving home at 14. But I felt like it was my

calling, really.

BiTS: So tell me what were the sort of things that you did whilst you
were at the school?

LE: Well, it was just full of super talented kids, really, that could do
everything – sing, act, dance. And I must admit, I thought my biggest talent
really was singing. I kind of hung on to that and tried to just focus on

that because it was like my main thing that I could kind of do just as