Getting to Know Sahara Beck

Following the release of her new single, Sahara Beck will be hitting the road in November. We asked her to tell us about herself:

I am… Sahara, I can speak German and English, also Germlish if I’m speaking with my mum. I don’t really like chocolate that much and I don’t understand why everyone is always talking about it. I know someone who would eat a whole block of chocolate a day because they loved it so much. I mean each to their own, sometimes I’ll buy dark chocolate and have a square every now and then just to see if maybe my taste buds have changed. I’m pretty sure I read about that somewhere. I’m more of an olive enjoyer myself, I like the green ones, especially when they are stuffed with pimento. I feel like the pimento provides structural foundation within the olive, stops it from getting all squishy. I also like kalamata olives but I feel like they turn into squish city really quickly.

Here We Go Again is… a song I wrote in Los Angeles, California when I was staying in Silverlake, recording with Tony Buchen. I was thinking a lot about the idea of being alone. The thought that I had been putting up with a lot of things I didn’t need to just because I was afraid that if I didn’t put up with them that I would be alone. I used to do a lot of things out of fear of being alone. But I’m not afraid of that anymore and as a result of not being afraid of being alone i’m not a slave to love anymore but rather I am love and see love wherever I go.

My upcoming tour will be… worth every penny you spend on the ticket! We are going to play Sydney, Melbourne and of course my home town Brisbane! I can’t wait, the Brisbane show is actually on the night of my housemate’s birthday so I’m definitely going to single her out, maybe get her up for a little birthday rap. Why not!

I spend too much time… thinking about how I could have answered an interview question better, I mean even this one. I could have said something like I spend too much time thinking about how I should be practicing rollerskating, I haven’t used my roller skates in ages but the neighbourhood I live in at the moment doesn’t have any good areas for such activities.. but no, I said the other thing instead.

It might surprise people to learn that… rejection and physical pain are the same to your brain. The same receptors are activated when you are rejected as when you feel pain.

I’ve never… been good at only watching one episode of something. I’m obsessed with Maniac on Netflix at the moment. I keep having to re-watch episodes because I can’t turn it off and then I end up falling asleep and missing it! I’m definitely a big fan of TV. No shame here.

In the future… I hope I own an electric car. I will drive Ludwig (the dog I will own one day) around in it. We will go around on adventures together and buy more olives for me to eat. Ludwig will be more like my partner in crime, I shouldn’t say that I will own him, we will be equals. Maybe by then there will be the technology that has figured out how to read minds and as a side-result a translating technology that will help ludwig and I to communicate with each other, we could then take classes and learn Italian and French together so that when our adventures take us overseas we can speak with the locals. But I guess if we can all read each other’s minds then I won’t need to speak other languages anymore. Oh well, we’ll see.

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SAHARA BECK HERE WE GO AGAIN HEADLINE TOUR – Tickets on sale here.

Friday 2 November | Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar, Sydney NSW
Saturday 3 November | Grace Darling Hotel, Melbourne VIC
Thursday 8 November | Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane QLD