LoneLady
Nerve Up
born two miles east of manchester city centre and having lived for 10 years right next to a motorway the mancunian way a stone's throw from the arndale centre canal street all the shitty brilliant pubs clubs dives stinking canals redbrick council estates leafy suburbs and tartedup 'quarters' lonelady could walk around manchester blindfolded she loves hates it it is her home so she had to record there a fan of first albums believing them to be a document of struggle realness and wilderness a lot of lonelady's favourite albums are debuts and she didn't want to go to london or anywhere else to record 'nerve up' lonelady aka julie campbell is a selfstyled writer vocalist and tight guitarist with little more than thorny determination and a shoestring budget she built a secluded ramshackle studio in the belly of one of manchester's crumbling mills and created 'nerve up' coproduced by guy fixsen known for his work with my bloody valentine the breeders and stereolab in the span of four weeks the aesthetics of this exmill were a pure joy for lonelady and invoked the ghosts of bands she loves joy division esg wire grace jones the fall suicide pil'grainy black and white images depicting the kind of spaces that have barely changed over the past 30 years where ghosts stretch from the past and point to the future'
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