November 11, 2015

Janet Devlin’s Exclusive Interview With The Student Pocket Guide

Janet Devlin is spreading the holiday cheer this season with her new festive EP, December Daze, which will be released on Friday, November 27th. The singer-songwriter recently spoke with The Student Pocket Guide about her upcoming release. Janet spoke with the blog about December Daze, her second studio album, and much more. You can read some of the exclusive interview below, but be sure to visit The Student Pocket Guide to read the full article.

I read that you got inspiration for your Christmas EP, ‘December Daze’ when you were in New York…
Yeah! During my first trip over it was like super snowy. It was like minus -18/-19 degrees and I was walking around like, ‘Omg, this is major Christmas time’ and I was thinking of Home Alone, Elf and all the films and stuff. Luckily I had my guitar player there and I was like, ‘Right, we’re going back to the hotel room and in between interviews we’re gunna write a Christmas song.’ So that’s how December Daze happened and it’s been a little bit of a snowball ever since.

So did you actually plan on releasing a Christmas EP, or was it because you went to New York and got inspiration for a Christmassy song that it then came about?
That was it! I wrote the song and then I kind of came back still writing Christmas songs. I turned around and my manager was like, ‘What about maybe making an EP?’ Obviously it’s not as easy as  just ‘making an EP.’ It’s all in time and schedules and stuff to try and get it done, but we did it, so it happened. It’s New York’s fault for this EP!

Your first album, ‘Running With Scissors’ was about growing up, becoming independent and dealing with a range of emotions. Do you think this album follows a similar theme or do you think it has a different path?
No it has a different path. This one’s called Holy Water (at the minute) and it’s the whole idea of confessing sins that you can never be fully reconciled for unless you tell it to another human being and admit it to yourself. By writing about things that I’ve done, by putting it out there and letting people hear it, I’ve techniqually told them and I can be forgiven. So by the end of that album I’ll feel cleansed!

For more from this exclusive interview, visit: The Student Pocket Guide

Janet’s new festive EP, December Daze, on Friday, November 27th. The EP is currently available for pre-order on PledgeMusic. Pre-order your copy today! Janet’s covers EP, Duvet Daze, will also be available digitally on Friday, November 27th in North America.

Janet Devlin’s debut album Running With Scissors is available now on our web-store, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and at music retailers nationwide. Be sure to check out all of our exclusive Janet Devlin merchandise in our webstore.

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