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THE SOAP GIRLS
NEXT NE GIG
Sunday 16th October
VENUE
NE Volume Music Bar, Stockton
Adam Kennedy caught up with South African sisters Noemie ("Mie") and Camille ("Mille"), also known as The Soap Girls, in the middle of their UK tour. With a new album and forthcoming appearance at our own NE Volume Music Bar, the girls are keeping themselves busy.
How is your UK tour going so far?
C: It's been great. It's been wild. It's different. It's good.
N: With the new album and covid, it's been interesting to see people’s reactions compared to pre-covid shows. People appreciate live music even more now,
and in some ways, they're a little bit more
reserved than before.
C: So, it's melancholic or it's angry - it just depends.
N: 'Breathe' was written about covid and after covid, just letting go of all your baggage and just being able to breathe. As cheesy as that sounds, that is what it's about, without having the government with their hand over your mouth the whole time controlling you.
C: Then you take a song like ‘Kill Breed’. That is also completely anti-government and anti-system and against anything that forces people to cut off completely from empathy and anything that makes them human.
How has this year been treating you in general?
N: I think anything and everything that can happen has been thrown at us this year.
You are about to play at our own NE Volume Music Bar in Stockton. Do you enjoy performing in the North East of England? C: We love it. The people are really
friendly. Honestly, I really like it.
N: I’m not saying that the people down south aren't real, but I think people in the North are like salt of the earth kind
of people and they just say it how it is.
You are also about to tour the USA and Japan. Have you got anything else in the
pipeline that you can maybe tell us about?
C: We’re touring until November and it's going to be cool because America and Japan are two places that we've
never toured.
N: We will also be releasing more music videos soon, and I think we will be shooting the music videos in Japan and America. And when we get back home, obviously, we have to move. But we will continue with live streams and then maybe do singles off a new album - but we won’t be releasing a new album just yet because, obviously, we want to tour this one first.
The Soap Girls head to NE Volume Music Bar in Stockton on Sunday 16th October. Tickets, priced at £7.00 in advance, are available from nevolumebar.co.uk and seetickets.com.
C: I mean, we are technically homeless,
although we’ve just managed to find
another place that we like. Hopefully,
we’ll get it. But apparently, while we've
been out on tour, the house we rent has been
sold. We have eight days when we get back home to move. Also, while we were in Europe, our van broke down multiple times and we spent a lot of the tour money just fixing the van.
N: So, it's been a bit hairy in some situations. But, I mean, we're still here. I think it's proved that no matter what gets thrown at us, we’re still going to do the show.
You've got a new album out called ‘In My Skin’. Tell us a little bit about the album and how it came to fruition...
C: It’s called ‘In My Skin’ because it's just about being completely vulnerable and accepting all the facets of being alive, especially in today's times.
N: Each song has a different meaning.
“No matter what gets thrown at us, we’re still going to do the show”
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