Getting to know Camille Christel
Camille Christel has recently dropped her debut track, Chicago. We asked her to tell us about herself:
I am… currently in paradise, a little island just off Greece called Ithaca. I am just waiting for the 11 o’clock boat to take us to my favourite beach.
Chicago is… about a moment, a moment of craving to escape. I wrote it at 3am on a noisy plane which was just about to head in to land. I have always found planes to be an in-between space, a space where you don’t really belong and you aren’t really anywhere, so in these moments and hours I dwelt on every part of my life at the time. Chicago was then recorded in early 2019 with the rest of my band. I wanted the listener to feel like they were in those painful moments of reflection with me and they could feel the track as they listened by adding the harsh background noise of the plane and the haunting yet beautiful sounds of the cello.
My debut EP will be… a collection of memories and moments which all relate to an individual place or major city. Each one about love or loss. When people listen I want them to relate to each song personally and take them back to those situations which may have happened years ago or days ago but I hope the songs take them back to those exact moments of falling in love, falling into a daydream or falling into a nightmare.
Home is… Nottingham, in Rough Trade, Broad Street, Goldsmith Street, Outpost, Kushi ya, Bodega, Broadway, Bubblin’ Tuesdays, with my friends, my family or my friends who are like family. Nottingham will always be home no matter where I go.
I’ve never… been to LA, that’s the dream.
I spend too much time… thinking, thinking of words, people, moments, music. I never stop thinking and over thinking.
It might surprise people to learn that… I am extremely dyslexic, maybe that’s why my songs contain such random collections of words, throughout school I was told I would never pass a single English Exam…
In the future… I will complete everything on my secret to do list.
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Keep up to date with Camille on her website.
Interview by Bobby Townsend.
