Interview
Wallis Bird on the importance of nightclubs and why she has no plans to move home from Berlin
The singer-songwriter tells Kate Demolder why she swapped Dublin for Berlin, how buying a farmhouse has eased her rent anxiety and why Irish politicians should go clubbing before allowing another nightclub to close
When Wallis Bird was a teenager in rural Wexford, she had dozens of Spice Girls posters tacked to her walls. “For real, like,” the 41-year-old singer-songwriter says with a laugh. “Because they came out of fucking nowhere, kicking and screaming, telling boys to go fuck themselves.”
The posters sat alongside a similar one of Jessica Rabbit, whose aura struck Bird from the start. “The bang of lesbian off me,” she says.
“She just had this ...
