Does this link to the venue you’ll be playing for the 2017 release show in Brighton?

“It does, it does indeed! So yeah, on the day, we got to her shop for 7am with all the others to get styled, and she dropped into conversation that her mum owns a farm just down the road from where we’re going for the shoot. I immediately asked what animals are on the farm, and she listed pretty much every farm animal known to man.”

“Jake – my director – picked me up in his car with Kate, all the extras went in a separate car, and we told him to head to the farm. Her mum is one of the horse handlers, so she picked a really gentle one for the video. His name was Guss – he was a dream!”

It sounds like you had a huge team behind this shoot! Who else was involved?

“I have a long list! Jake was my director, Ben was my DoP, my producers Elliot and Finn of Bullet Tooth Productions, gorgeous Laura on set design, Zac our gaffer and Brooke, Ella and Dominika who were my wonderful extras and obviously Kate making sure everyone looked fab. Brooke and Finn also filmed some behind the scenes bits on VHS and Brooke actually shot the single cover on the shoot. I met most of these people through working at Dukes at Komedia in the lanes, I used to deal with a lot of hiring down there. I’d interview lots of film students sometimes – and a bunch of us became great friends! I’m really lucky to have such talented friends who I can work on these projects with, it’s always so exciting to see everyone in action doing what they’re passionate about.”

You’re surrounded by a great network – who played on the recorded track?

“Local artist Eva Lunny played the harp on the track, we had Leo Hoad on cello, Esme Curtis-Lundburg on violin, George Seymour-Cole on bass, Finn Anderson on drums and Adrian Bunn on guitar and production too!”

“My friends Elliott and Finn of Bullet Tooth Productions did my live video for my last single, a cover video and a BTS – but this shoot for 2017 was definitely the biggest thing I’ve ever worked on. As my last video was live, this is the first time I’ve pretended to sing in front of a camera!”

Georgie’s focus on agriculture, rural life and nature across her music video closely complements the delicacy of her elevated vocal skill, with soft tenderness paired with unmissable projection. The visualisers, alongside the track instrumentals, takes a range of inspirations:

“It was very inspired by the video for ‘Crosswords’ by Olivia Dean – I love everything she does. The Matilda Mann video for ‘You Look Like You Can’t Swim’ too, which was also shot here in Brighton. Well, our video was captured in Barcombe Mills just outside of Lewes – so beautiful there!”

So with a brand new release, what should we expect at the release show on the 19th?

“My release show on the 19th was fully planned by me, I have some experience in putting on gigs and wanted to make this one super special. I wanted it to be an exciting new spot, not a usual venue that people have been to hundreds of times before! Kate of Pixie Collective has a beautiful spot in the centre of town – we’ll be building a bar exclusively for the show.”

“I’m going to be debuting my merch too – I’ve teamed up with my friend Immy who makes croquet scrunchies under her brand ‘Frilly Knits’, so we’re doing a little collab together. I didn’t want to do t-shirts, I just wanted to do something a bit different!”

How would you describe this track to a first-time listener, and how would it compare to your debut ‘Vital Signs’?

“I feel like this one is a lot sweeter. Yeah, as you said it has a much more Latin/ Bossa nova sound”

‘To be honest, my head went straight to ‘Girl From Ipanema’ with a bit of Corinne Bailey Rae!’

“I think that’s because we originally wrote the song on a 5-string bass. I had a very jazzy bassist at the time, so we re-recorded that bassline but on guitar instead. I listened to a tonne of Omar Apollo when I was writing this – he’s a huge love of mine. The track was written in 2020, when I was listening to a lot of Omar, Joy Crookes, Steve Lacy, that sorta thing’.”

Written in 2020, so was this a creation from lockdown?’

“It was! I learnt how to play guitar in 2020 and it’s the fourth song I ever wrote.”

‘So are you sitting on a lot of unreleased material, or have you schemed a few more tracks that you’re considering releasing in future from 2020?’

“Yeah, no it’s weird that this one’s so old and I still like it. There are some older unreleased songs, but I’ve continued to write new material too that we’ll be playing at my show on the 19th. It’s quite old but I guess that’s a testament to how much I like it. I’m not sick of it yet!”

Exploring themes of young love, nostalgia, reflection and comfort, ‘2017’ pays homage to a time of growth for Georgie, taking an experience that many would typically forget and packaging it up in a tightly-sealed musical time capsule:

‘Lyrically there’s a lot of clear themes in there, may I ask the story behind 2017?’

“I tell everyone this! It’s very on the nose, reflecting on my first ever boyfriend at the age of 18, someone I met on the night of my 18th birthday – it’s even the first line of the song. You can definitely hear the sort of naivety in the lyrics, and it’s me looking back on this time with a lot of nostalgia and rose tinted glasses. It’s also a testament to the small village I grew up in, before moving to a bigger town at 15, heading to college, making lots of friends – the track just reminds me of that place.”

“It was written in heavy heavy lockdown, and I was trying to write a song every day. I’d head down to the river and sit by a pontoon with my headphones in – I had a fresh head and listen to my music. When I think about this song, it reminds me of that, along with my friends who still remember the year well!”

“It’s that time wrapped up in a little bow.”

Georgie’s musical projects have been through various iterations since learning the guitar in deep 2020 lockdown, and ‘2017’ is being released at a time of clarity for Georgie and her musical journey. The track features harp, cello, and violin – opening the doors for a new era of technicality, while maintaining those intimate singer/songwriter roots – with raw authenticity from start to finish.

“It all started at college, I used to do musical theatre. I thought I wanted to be a performer on the West End – turns out I’m not very good at that! I auditioned for loads of drama schools, didn’t get in and was thinking ‘what am I going to do with my life?!’ I decided to apply for BIMM in Brighton instead. I glad I went for the people I met, and I was put in an environment where I was forced to write songs, and join a band relatively quickly. I was quite shy, so the discipline was actually really helpful.”

“One of my first weeks at Uni I formed a jazz function band with a few friends, playing Motown, soul, jazz and all of that stuff – it really tested my voice. One of our first functions was for Carl Barat from The Libertines – we lied and said we’d done loads of other gigs! That was very strange.”

‘2017’ is OUT NOW, and tickets to Georgie’s release show are available to buy here.