{"id":2207734,"date":"2025-12-21T18:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2207734"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:26:03","slug":"holly-golightly-interview-jack-white-and-the-black-tongue-hex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/holly-golightly-interview-jack-white-and-the-black-tongue-hex\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Golightly interview: Jack White and the black tongue hex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"430b522f-a087-424f-9312-06d57ee0d9a6\">Holly Golightly has been a survivor on the British garage-band circuit since the 90s, releasing 13 solo albums and more than 20 collaborative records. Long associated with Billy Childish and the Medway scene in Kent, she came to prominence with the riot grrrl-spirited Thee Headcoatees before striking out on her own and later with roots-rock duo The Brokeoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Holly&#8217;s new album, <em>Look Like Trouble<\/em>, is a collection of new alt.Americana songs with a distinctive English sensibility.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"334a3cfe-94b7-41b8-a8e7-a74b8c8c5b9b\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:600px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:5.67%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/9NEqLC5NR7NbqTgbAwFLMk-600-80.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/9NEqLC5NR7NbqTgbAwFLMk-600-80.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/9NEqLC5NR7NbqTgbAwFLMk-600-80.png.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/9NEqLC5NR7NbqTgbAwFLMk-600-80.png.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/9NEqLC5NR7NbqTgbAwFLMk-480-80.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/9NEqLC5NR7NbqTgbAwFLMk-320-80.png.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/>\n<\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"2d2ecc54-2adf-4dc0-97bc-7b6339004937\"><strong>You recorded the new album in London with your longtime British band. How did it come together?<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"2d2ecc54-2adf-4dc0-97bc-7b6339004937-1\">We did it at Gizzard [studio]. I\u2019ve worked there for many years. I brought over songs I\u2019d been sketching for six or seven years. We don\u2019t rehearse, I just show the band my notes, and once we\u2019re in the studio it becomes something else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s a deep, dark quality to the song <\/strong><em><strong>Black Tongue<\/strong><\/em><strong>. What is a black tongue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a hex. In the South there\u2019s a saying: if you speak badly about people, your tongue will go black. So the lyric is a kind of hoodoo warning. Not malicious, just tradition. It\u2019s All is a very simple song, yet deeply resonant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I lost three close friends last year, musicians I\u2019d known for decades. I couldn\u2019t get back [to the UK] for their funerals, so I wrote the song for their memorials. It\u2019s very simple: \u2018<em>We stumble through it all, we stand until we fall<\/em>.\u2019 That\u2019s really all there is to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s seven years since your previous album. What kept you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Covid happened. But I\u2019ve always had a parallel career. Music has been a hobby to me. My day job is in the legal field, and I only get so much time off. When I come to England I\u2019ve got to see my parents, my friends, play a London show, maybe tour, so recording often got squeezed out.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"youtube-video youtube-facade\" data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"raspj-uKKZw\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\">\n<div class=\"watch-on-iframe-raspj-uKKZw\" data-yt-video-token=\"raspj-uKKZw\" title=\"Holly Golightly - Miss Fortune (Taken from Holly's forthcoming album 'Look Like Trouble') - YouTube\">\n<span class=\"youtube-video-title\">Holly Golightly &#8211; Miss Fortune (Taken from Holly&#8217;s forthcoming album &#8216;Look Like Trouble&#8217;) &#8211; 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In London I could have worked three jobs and never managed it, so I packed up the kitchen sink and went. Now I\u2019ve got thirty acres with four horses, a donkey and a mini-mule. It hasn\u2019t been easy, but it\u2019s the life I wanted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a bohemian mindset?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. Both my parents were bohemians \u2013 they went to the Royal College of Art, never conformed. I grew up in that atmosphere. They were horrified when I said I wanted to be a riding instructor, then baffled when I started playing what they thought was very square music. But the ethos stuck: anyone can do what they like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you come to sing that duet with Jack White?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I lived round the corner from Toe Rag [studio] when they [The White Stripes] were making <em>Elephant<\/em> [2003], and Meg [White] was staying at my flat. One night in a restaurant, Jack scribbled a lyric and said: \u201cLet\u2019s try this.\u201d And that became our duet, <em>It\u2019s True That We Love One Another<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look Like Trouble \u2013 is that how you think people see you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another Southern phrase: you should look like it but not be it. People sometimes think I\u2019m aloof or difficult, but I\u2019m not trouble at all.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Look Like Trouble is out now via Damaged Goods<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"11b1c872-0761-41d8-9c4e-ef04c252378d\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-8852009a-4622-4a21-8aa1-7aa98ae60ba8\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-model-name=\"Holly Golightly: Look Like Trouble\" data-widget-title=\"Holly Golightly: Look Like Trouble - Today's Best Prices\" data-widget-type=\"review\" data-render-type=\"editorial\" class=\"hawk-root\">\n<div class=\"hawk-main-editorial-container\">\n<p>Holly Golightly: Look Like Trouble &#8211; Today&#8217;s Best Prices<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.loudersound.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Golightly has been a survivor on the British garage-band circuit since the 90s, releasing 13 solo albums and more than 20 collaborative records. 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