![]() And he said no.Īnd then I walked past him again and was like, “Please, can I have a go? Keep the proceeds, whatever.” And he is like, “Yeah, okay. I was walking past this busker in my hometown and just asked him if I could have a go. So I just wanted somebody to listen to me. And at the time I was getting a lot of no's from local promoters to put on a local gig because I didn't really have any fans. So I was trying to figure out a way to do that. And then I just wanted to get a different or bigger audience. ![]() So I was just saw playing in my bedroom, playing covers and stuff before I started writing my own songs. So how was it that you were starting out busking in the streets of Leeds? You already have a career spanning a decade because you started so early. So I really, really love that about this festival, because I've never seen these legends I look up to in such close proximity, which I think is really cool. Usually a festival, when there's a massive audience and someone's on the main stage, there’s slightly less connection, it's not as intimate. You can see that they're having as much fun as the audience. There's nothing like purer than that because you know that they're just doing it for the love of it. ![]() It's crazy when you go in there, cause sometimes some massive artists come in and just do an impromptu jam when you are watching are in the audience. ![]() It's a very different kind of festival to the festivals that I've been to, especially the jam sessions part of it in the House of Jazz. What's your impression this time now that you're a veteran? We're here at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Marc Young: Hannah, thanks so much for speaking with me today. In the podcast, Hannah talks about being an independent artist in the age of social media, how that affects her creativity and what it’s like interacting with her fans via the internet. For the latest episode of Signal Path, Marc Young spoke with Hannah Trigwell, an English singer-songwriter who started out busking the streets of Leeds before finding legions of fans online. ![]()
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