Róisín Murphy: ‘You think one thing about me and then I’ll kick against it’
With her latest album providing a soundtrack to all the parties we wish we were at, the prolific performer talks about the heady days of early clubbing, musical shape-shifting and glory days to come
“We did flyers and half the city turned up,” Róisín Murphy says, looking back on a legendary party she threw in Sheffield when she was 19.
“We had over 25 policemen in the house, either plainclothes or uniformed at one point. There were helicopters over the house. And if you left the house, you were put into a van and taken to the police station.”
Just like the rest of us, club music innovator Murphy ...
