In the grand scheme of things, it's a relatively minor one, but for a music obsessive it requires serious thought on his part. “Today is a day of interviews here, tomorrow there’s a French pick of my soul, then a Spanish pick of my soul, then a German one and then finally Polish.” He laughs and says, “So I did something wrong! Because I’m wanted everywhere.”Īs we start to talk through his Nine Songs, Wainwright realises he has a decision to make. Starting with “Grey Gardens”, he described the Herculean venture with his trademark humour, “Let this be part of the antidote to this situation that we’re in.” Wainwright ended up performing sixty songs from his home in Los Angeles, mixing his own compositions with covers, and finishing with Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More” where he was joined by the extended Wainwright clan.īefore lockdown happened, when we meet in London, he’s in high spirits, excited by the limitless possibilities of travel, that unbeknownst to the world, would be put on hold shortly after.
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The tour for his wonderful ninth record Unfollow The Rules - his first pop album since 2012’s Out of the Game, after 2015’s opera Prima Donna, and 2016’s Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets - has been moved to next year, yet Wainwright has simply kept playing.Īs well as being the first artist to perform The Royal Albert Home Series, Wainwright turned his #RobeRecitals series on Instagram, where he would occasionally play a song from his bedroom in his dressing gown, into a daily #Quarantunes series.
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