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by erin thursby
scopes1925@msn.com
What: Skye and Ziggy Marley
When: November 22nd @ 8PM
Where: Freebird
The distinctive trip hop sound of Morcheeba was especially marked by the vocal stylings of Shirley Klarisse Yonavive Edwards, who later dubbed herself Skye Edwards, taking the first name from her initials. These days she just goes by Skye, working solo ever since her break from the band in 2003. She’s released her first solo album in February of this year, striking it big on radio stations in her native U.K.
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That album, Mind How You Go, is a kind of folkish, pop and slightly electronica offering, backed by solid songwriting and Skye’s clear voice. When I asked Skye what she grew up listening to, I was a little surprised that the Brit star answered by saying that she “grew up listening …to country music, that was what my mum used to play…and she used to listen to the musical Cats, she had that on vinyl for some reason.” Prior to joining Morcheeba, she’d had a little experience singing for an audience, singing in school and joining a band called Flytrap.
Before starting out on her own, she had always collaborated with the members of Morcheeba, but hadn’t really been responsible for song crafting. “It started when I was advised to go and work with some different songwriters…I didn’t really want to go on my own, I was used to being in the Morcheeba studios, felt quite shy to meet other people so I dragged my husband along for support.” Now that she’s on her own she “feel[s] more involved” as an artist, not just in the songwriting aspect but in all aspects of crafting her album, from decisions about cover art to choosing what music goes where.
Even though she was shy about songwriting, it was in the 1990’s, while she was still with Morcheeba, that she began writing the track ‘Tell Me About Your Day.’ A song that sometimes gives Skye a “lump in my throat … usually when I’ve been away from home for a long time and I’m missing my children.” The song, she says, is mainly about a bad day while she was on tour with Morcheeba about nine years ago. “I was in New Orleans … and our tour bus had to park miles away from where the venue was and I had left my suitcase on the bus, so I had to go shopping that day for something to wear for the show for St. Patrick’s Day. Basically it explains what happened in that day, in the song.”
In just a few minutes of speaking with Skye, it’s apparent that her children are the cherished center of her existence. Even the last CD she listened to (The Buena Vista Social Club) was chosen as a wake-up alarm for her kids to get up to in the morning. She took them on the road with her when they were smaller, but her boy is now nearly eleven and her little girl is going on nine. “Now they have to go to school,” Skye laments “It can be quite difficult to leave them behind.” Then, she laughs, and relates the story of how she got arrested because of her newborn daughter. “My daughter from the age of three weeks old [traveled with me on the road] …and I got arrested in Belgium because she wasn’t on my passport and they thought that I’d stolen a baby and was trying to smuggle her out of the country. Yeah, it was pretty awful at the time, but I can laugh about it now.”
She’s currently on a grueling tour of the US, opening for Ziggy Marley throughout the south, until the beginning of December, when she takes a turn with the western United States. You can listen to the smooth and intimate vocals of Skye live at Jacksonville Beach’s Freebird Live next Wednesday, November 22nd at 8PM.
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