Bens Brother Interviews Beverley Knight

31 July 2009

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After working on a track for Beverley Knight's new album, Jamie Hartman and the soul diva are now musical best of friends, so when he found out he was going to be doing an interview during his time at FemaleFirst, Jamie knew there was only one woman for him…

Hey Beverley, I’m sitting here and taking over FemaleFirst for the day so I just wanted to say thank you so much for doing this for us…

Oh it’s a pleasure!

I just have to tell you that I came to see you at the iTunes festival at the weekend and it was amazing, I was down at the Roundhouse in London, you looked like you were having an amazing time, how was it?

Oh I was having a great time, absolutely great I loved every second of it! It was such a fun, legendary place to be but for me just being on the stage with new and old material was absolutely brilliant, I was so chuffed. I loved it.

You have an amazing voice too, the sound was spot on and you never know how it’s going to be when you come to see a gig, but watching you hitting every note and being so into the music was great.

Thank you so much Jamie, that means a lot, especially coming from you

And the audience seemed to go nuts for it as well…

I know! That was something I didn’t expect but you knew there was going to be certain songs that they would go off on, but when a crowd really gets behind you on a song they hadn’t heard before, or might have only heard once or twice, that is special and it was fantastic. I couldn’t be happier.

I was going to ask you, obviously we’ve written together on your new record, so can we tell everyone what the new record is like?

Oh yes sure, me and you wrote together on one of my favourite tracks called ‘Bare’ it was just brilliant and I wrote with Amanda Ghost and Guy Chambers and some completely new and up and coming people too, just a variety people as well as the legendary Jam and Lewis who I’ve wanted to work with since I was a child so it really was a meeting of minds and coming together to make this album happen and I cant wait until it’s out there in September!

Brilliant, and what’s the actual release date?

It’s September 14th for sure!

I have to just draw a comparison because I went my separate way from EMI as did you, and maybe it’s a good idea to talk through that process and I know how rewarding it has been ultimately, but it was a very tough initial break, how do you feel about it?

Well when it came down to it and I decided to go my own way, the hardest thing was the realisation that the safety net of the record label is no longer there! But once you get over that initial shock which I did before I started to work on the next records everything seems fine.

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