Behind The Bops
Behind The Bops with Gabriella Cilmi
She talks through her A+ discography
?️ STAND ASIDE ‘CAUSE I’M ON A MISSION! ?️
And that mission is to tell you that Gabriella Cilmi is the latest amazing Behind The Bops guest!
For the fourth episode of the podcast, I asked her all about her amazing discography so far – from the Xenomania-produced, Sweet About Me-packing debut Lessons To Be Learned to wonderful new EP The Water; via her incredible electropop opus Ten and independent gem The Sting.
Along the way, she’s played the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, worked with top-tier hitmakers like The Invisible Men and Ellie Goulding… and seen people campaign for On A Mission to be a lipsync on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
You can listen to the chat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Podbean now.
As with the previous episodes, I donated £50 to a cause of her choice as a thank-you – and she picked Action Against Hunger’s Yemen fund. You can support that incredibly urgent cause too by heading here.
I’ve also – lucky for you!! – made a 15-track Essential Gabriella Cilmi playlist on Spotify, which you can bask in here.
Gabriella’s new EP The Water is out now.
*NEW BEHIND THE BOPS KLAXON!!!*
It was so lovely to chat to Saara Aalto about her incredible career so far – Eurovision! X Factor! Serial hitmaking! Loads of other stuff!!
She’s so lovely and open and chatty – you can hear us talk through her amazing story on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and on the web at Podbean (available also in the player below).
To say thank-you, we offered to donate £50 to a charity of her choice, and – being the angel that she is! – she chose Mermaids. Find out more about their work here.
I was super excited to speak to Jade Ewen about being at the intersection of so many of my interests: Eurovision! Sugababes! The West End! The evergreen fucking banger ‘My Man’!
She was so open and lovely; a real pleasure. I absolutely loved hearing her perspective on the 2009 Eurovision year, her experience of joining one of the biggest pop groups of the century (and their eventual split), and loads more.
Listen to Behind The Bops on SPOTIFY, APPLE PODCASTS or PODBEAN now.
And if you still haven’t heard my chat with Amy Studt, you can do that here!
Misfit! Just A Little Girl! Under the Thumb! Nice Boys!
Amy Studt was a big fave for many of us in the early 2000s, and she’s on Electric Angels’ little podcast Behind The Bops to talk about her teen breakthrough, working with songwriting giants (Cathy Dennis! Gary Barlow! Sheryl Crow!), her almost mythical second album, and her recent return to music. The chat was aired on our Breakfast Bops show on Tuesday, 5 May.
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