![]() ![]() An Irish radio station asked me as a surprise, and I was like, ‘Let’s do it!’ I’ll always have good memories of that. “I remember playing for a bride on her wedding day in Cork. “Nobody told me I’d gone gold and platinum in Ireland! It’s good to be back. ![]() “When I wrote the songs, I genuinely assumed no one would hear them,” Ridings tells Hot Press during a stop-off in Dublin. ‘Lost Without You’ went six times platinum in Ireland, while ‘Castles’ achieved similarly impressive sales. The latter single made Freya the first female artist to have an entirely self-written Top 10 hit since Kate Bush’s original release of ‘Running Up That Hill’ in 1985, and in the process, set up her debut album for immense global success. No easy feat when you’re broken-hearted in your childhood bedroom, the high of multi-platinum singles like ‘Castles’ and ‘Lost Without You’ fading into the distance. Having found the process of creating her first long-player borderline traumatic (“I cried every single night”), Ridings had to overcome a paralysing fear to get back in the saddle. ![]() ![]() Then there was the break-up of all break-ups just to add to the pile. For Freya Ridings, writing Blood Orange – the follow-up to her chart-topping 2019 debut – came with an unprecedented number of setbacks, not least the lockdown-scuppered writing sessions in Los Angeles. The notion of that sticky second record has long existed in the music industry, and there’s usually no smoke without fire. ![]()
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