When you first started making music, were there any specific moments that defined the unique direction you ended up taking?

I can actually remember watching Emilie Nicolas [a Norwegian artist] at a 2014 festival in my hometown. How she captivated the audience and sang so beautifully, her way of committing to the lyrics and storytelling was just very captivating to me. It made me realise that I wanted to be on that stage and captivate the audience like her, I wanted to do it the way she was doing it. It’s actually still such a clear memory for me - I could tell you what the weather was like and who was stood around me too, that was a very specific influential moment for me.

Is there anyone who's had a big influence on the way you've made music over the years, either different music artists or close friends/family?

Lyrically, since about 2020, I've reguarly read a lot into Olivia Dean’s lyrics, I love her storytelling and the way she talks about love and relationships in her songs. Also my friends, I think my friends who do music all work with different people so their opinions are always incredibly valuable; they’re just inspiring to be around. Being able to listen, share ideas play my own music and pay attention to what they’re doing is never taken for granted. It can get a little bit chaotic doing it all yourself sometimes, so It's nice to have people around me to lean on.

Talk us through some of your short-term and long-term career goals moving forwards…

I want to release an EP and then I want to release an album. I really want to start paying more gigs too; the music scene in Norway is a bit more narrow in terms of playing gigs so I’m excited to hopefully do that more moving forwards. The band is getting really good too and I feel like we're now very prepped to play more live - like I said in the first question, being inspired by Emilie Nicolas on stage, it’s what I want to be doing. I really enjoy being in the studio and I enjoy writing the music a lot but what I enjoy most is performing it and sharing it with people in person. I want to play live more in the UK, that’s what I’m currently working towards so hopefully that will align at some point in the future.

“Take Me To Paris” by Oh Blonde

It was made in a session with one of my close mates, Nikolai Bergman. We were working in my studio, late summer, talking about love and I was thinking about relationships from the past. I think when you're very young, any experience you have, we sometimes forget that 10 years down the road those experiences are still sometimes the ones influencing who you are, how you act and how you come across when you meet people. We were just reflecting on that and then he asked why I was single and it got me thinking about timing - I started thinking about the taxi theory, that things just haven’t aligned… yet. That's the overall topic of the song, the verse: “oh I didn't know when I was 17, how that experience would impact me now” is also kind of hopeful because, yeah, it could be bad timing now but maybe later down the line, someone might take me to Paris and everything was always going to be fine. 

As an artist, pushing yourself outside your comfort zone often comes with being honest and vulnerable in your music. How does it feel to share such personal thoughts and emotions with the world?

Being in front of the camera and creating content actually feels more outside of my comfort zone than sharing my lyrics. Writing music is very therapeutic for me, so by the time a song is released, those are emotions I’ve already processed and worked through. When it comes out, it feels more like a release than a vulnerability - I’m proud of the music but what can feel scary, though, is wanting to bring the audience into something that personal but at the same time, if someone finds comfort in it too, that makes it all worth it.

So, do you find the content and visibility side of being an artist, always being on camera and sharing yourself, more intimidating than actually making the music?” 

Yeah, because when just releasing the song, you're not tying anything to it, you're just listening to it like reading a book… but then you have to make the film. I do enjoy it but I think it’s more confronting. I wish we were still at the point where you could just do the art, put it out and let it get the recognition it deserves but that’s the whole beauty of being an artist, right? I guess we're also really lucky to have it that way because it also does provide way more opportunities than it would without it.