I Draw Slow - Live at Pickathon 2013

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In the latest installment of The First Time, Belfast-based photographer Joe Laverty catches up with Louise Holden of Dublin-based roots/Americana five-piece I Draw Slow to pry, ever so respectfully, into the “firsts” of her music-listening, loving and making life.

First album you bought? 

I’d like to say the Carter Family but actually I think it might have been Aha

First single you bought? 

‘Shake the Disease’ by Depeche Mode

First live concert/gig? 

The Cure in Dublin

First album you properly loved? 

Rust Never Sleeps, Neil Young. Still my favourite.
 
First artist/band to change your music-listening/making life? 

Joni Mitchell shook me up when it came to vocals and lyrics.

First local band you got really into? 

Any of those McGonagle’s bands – That Petrol Emotion and such.

First festival experience? 

Feile in Cork, I think it was 1992.

First favourite film soundtrack? 

The Jungle Book

First band t-shirt/jumper? 

The Cure

First song to make you cry? 

‘Love Song’ by The Cure

First time you knew you wanted to make music? 

When I set up my first school band, The Grinning Daisies

First instrument you learnt to play? 

Guitar

First riff/song/piece you learnt from start to finish? 

The piano intro to ‘Blue’, by Joni Mitchell. Can’t play past the intro so I pretend to get diverted at that point.

First original song you wrote? 

‘I Wonder Why The Grass Is Green’. I think I stole the lyrics and the tune though.

First gig or performance of your own? 

A 21st birthday party with Friendly Fire.  I think there’s another band called that now (ed: Friendly Fires, maybe?)

First musical hero/idol you ever met? 

I met Morrissey at a bar in Dublin. He said “How did you know it was me? I look so old and fat.” He didn’t.

From: https://thethinair.net/2013/10/the-first-time-louise-holden-of-i-draw-slow/