Chords for Coco Sumner talks to Trekstock

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Hello, I'm Jeff Leach.
We're here at Lovebox 2010.
You know that already.
I'm joined by
the fantastic Coco from I Blame Coco.
Hello.
How are you?
Very well, thanks.
[Db] How are you?
I'm alright, thanks.
We've already done this, [E] so let's not even lie.
We've already asked
how each other [Eb] are and we're both great.
[G] We've established that.
We've both established that
we've got a good [B] sense of style and dress sense.
What we haven't found out is about
how you've [F] enjoyed your experience here at Lovebox today.
It's my first experience at Lovebox.
Oh, it's alright.
Take it.
No, [Ab] no, no.
No, take it out.
It's alright.
Can I [Gm] answer it?
I turned it off.
I turned it off in my pocket.
I'll answer it.
No, it's done.
Alright, alright.
_ [F] First experience at Lovebox as a punter and as a [Eb] performer.
_ [G] I've enjoyed it.
What do you think?
Are you in?
Yeah?
Good?
I'm enjoying myself, yes.
Lovebox though, let's be honest.
I [F] come to festivals in London.
Box of love.
[D] We'll get to that later.
I've got my box [G] of love over there.
But not down
there.
Stuff it.
[N] So, _ London festivals, I don't think they're festivals really because you
know, [Eb] you don't camp, you don't get muddy, you don't spend most of your time staggering
around trying to find your mates [Gm] in their sort of half-bite days.
I think it's more of a carnival [G] sort of thing.
A carnival feel?
Is that what you feel when you come to Lovebox?
Well, London carnival is _ [C] called [D] carnival.
And people go home, they don't camp.
But,
yeah.
[G] Is that cheating though, Coco?
Going home and having a shower and [Bb] getting into a nice
warm [Gm] bed, is that cheating?
I think if you have fun then it doesn't really [Bb] matter.
_ What [Eb] would be your top five ways [Bb] to enjoy yourself?
Let's go three actually.
[Dbm] Five is
always a difficult number.
Top three ways to enjoy yourself at a London [D] festival.
At a London festival?
Yeah.
Here we go.
Okay. _
_ Just see as many bands as possible I think.
[D] Yeah, people forget to do that at festivals often, don't they?
They go to festivals [Ab] just
to drink and do naughty things.
That's just pointless, it's a [A] waste of a ticket.
Yeah.
Might as well just sit at home and [Eb] watch Jeremy Carl and drink cider [B] on your own.
Cider and do that stuff.
Yeah. _
[Ab] Alright, second top tip.
_ [D] _ _ [Gm] Turn your phone off.
Yeah, especially during interviews because it just throws the things into [Eb] disarray.
And third one?
_ _ [G] Be nice to people.
_ Be nice to artists.
Don't make fun of the fact that [Dm] they left their phone on because
[Fm] that will get you in bad stead with [A] them.
Okay, I obviously know that you're this new
emerging talent.
I blame Coco, you're kind of smashing at the [A] moment.
Everyone's very
excited in the industry about you.
[G] Are [A]
you enjoying the process of being this [F] new exciting
thing or is it all a bit pressured?
[Eb] We're all really enjoying it.
I [Dbm] mean, every show [D] we've played is getting better and better.
[Ab] _ _ Today we played a really good one at [D] the_
[Gm] behind there.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ [Fm] What's going on for you?
Because you've got obviously a few more festivals lined [D] up.
You're
travelling around a little bit, aren't you?
We're doing Banneker Steam tomorrow.
[Abm] That's amazing.
We're sleeping in Gatwick Airport tonight. _
[Ab] Do you feel like you know you've made it when you're sleeping in Gatwick [F] Airport?
You know that's the_
I used to think [E] Making It was playing at Barfly in [Eb] Camden but now [E] I know_
We all [Fm] know that's not true, especially not since they've done it up.
It's not [Bb] even really
rock and roll anymore, is it?
[B] They've made it look more like a [Ab] Weatherspoon's pub.
Have
you been back there recently?
I have.
I went there the other [F] night.
Horrendous, isn't it?
[Gm] Full of chavs.
[Ab] I had fun.
Don't say chavs.
It's a bit much.
A bit much.
A bit over the top.
A bit OTT.
_ Okay, and what's the festival you're most excited
about playing this summer?
[F] I think Secret Garden.
Which is mostly around arts and [Abm] performances, really.
The music is like [G] an added bonus.
It is.
Are you a [Abm] performer outside of your music?
Do you do any [Ab] theatre or any artwork?
[E] I went to art school [C] so I paint [Db] a bit.
And you still keep that up now? _
[Ab] No.
I haven't done it in a while.
You should do.
I should do.
Album artwork, maybe.
They wouldn't let me do that.
No?
No.
Listen, I've got my love box down here, which I'd like you to_
Would you [G] mind just [Ab] delving
into my love box?
You see what I did there?
You say you're an artist.
I did this myself.
Paper, mash, say.
No, not paper, mash, say.
Cret paper.
[Gm]
Yeah.
_ [Abm] Stickers and pens.
Are you impressed?
[Ab] I'm impressed.
What do I have to do?
Just take a little question out of there.
I've written some [D] questions about love and
stuff in there.
_ _ _ _ _ So you might not be able [Ab] to read my horrendous handwriting.
I really write
like a boy.
What personal possession [Abm] do you love most and why?
_ [Eb] _ _ Personal possession?
Yeah.
[Ab] Like a material thing.
I know we shouldn't love material things because they're kind
of inconsequential.
They mean nothing to us ultimately.
Love is the most important thing
we should [D] hold on to rather than_
I think my shoes.
[G] Your shoes?
Because if I don't have my shoes, I wouldn't be able to do things.
Pretty incredible shoes.
So you wouldn't be able to walk to stages to perform without those shoes?
No, I have this thing where I can't actually do [E] anything in the day without putting my
shoes on.
Not just necessarily [D] these shoes.
How about waking up?
Because surely that's a conundrum.
Like in the morning, do you just
lay there fighting in bed?
I have them laid out with my socks right by them before I [Em] go to bed.
[A] So in the morning you literally just roll yourself straight [D] into_
Roll myself out, socks on, and then I can get on with my day.
Do you do that before showering and other [E] tasks like that?
Cooking breakfast?
[Ab] Is it
shoes on first?
Shoes on first and then I sort out my day and then I have a shower.
I like that.
That's a good way to do it.
Right, let's have another one of these questions
out of my love box.
_ You seem really annoyed about [A] it.
Come on, I've handwritten them.
Can you not see [E] the professional arts and crafts nature?
If you could make any living_
Oh, here you go.
If you could make [Ab] anyone_
Anyone living or dead fall in love with [E] you, who would it be and [A] why?
That's a good question, right? _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] And by making, I mean if you could wish anyone to fall in
love with you, living [A] or dead, who would it be and why?
I think it would be a curse for anyone to fall in love with me.
Why?
Why would that be a curse?
I don't think that's [Ab] true.
I don't know.
I think it would be, putting that one back in there.
_ [Eb] _ _ Who would it be?
[Eb] It would be no one.
No [Gb] one should suffer.
Coca, I think that's [Eb] unbelievable.
We love her and we think she's [Gb] very, very talented.
If you haven't already checked out the museum, what rock have you been [E] living under?
Check out I Blame Coco here [Eb] at Love Box.
Thank you very much for talking to us and for supporting
[E] Trekstock, the charity partners.
Thank you [Ab] very much.
You're a legend.
Take care.
Take care. _ _ _ _ _
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