On Song . . . Gemma Hayes
It’s been more than a decade since your first album Night On My Side was nominated for the Mercury Prize – how do you feel when you look back at your early career?
With hindsight, I look back at this young girl who took everything very seriously. I was sure of myself musically. But when it came to everything else, I was a bag of nerves. When the Mercury Prize nomination happened,, it was all about the press and photo-shoots. It was terrifying. They think that you should know how to deal with it, even how to speak ...
