Joan Armatrading - Live at Asylum Chapel (Contains Signed Insert)

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It sort of lends itself to vibrancy, doesn’t it? The record company thought that an animated lyric video would be good so they suggested the person who is the animator. They put forward one thing to me, but somebody that I know had shown me a video of their children dancing to the song. It just looked so fun, so I said to the record company and the animator, “Make it children dancing to the song”. That’s my only contribution. Everything else is them — the vibrancy — they got that. I had nothing to do with how the drawings were or anything. I just wanted it to be children dancing. I thought to myself, ‘What got them to the shouting stage that they are actually in public giving us this performance?'

Once you get the people joining in, that's when it becomes what it needs to become, whether you're talking to me, the Beatles, Taylor Swift or whoever.”At 15 she left school and worked in the office at the Rabone Chesterman factory, a company who made spirit levels and rules. At 16 she performed live in Birmingham for the first time. In a video interview, you said how “Already There” was a way of talking about “love at first sight” in another way. I love the line “While you were falling in love, I was already there”. It’s so on point. As a creator that's what you do. You observe. You are present. You can see those things that would creep in and make a song. That's how it works.”

I'm just listening to them and enjoying them. Because they have done it. I don't need to do a bad version of them.” Your drummer Paul Stewart was just driving the rhythm on that song. It was so exciting to see that song come alive on the screen.At the time of writing that song and “Kissin and A Huggin'”, “Help Yourself,”“Like Fire”, all of those things, I was very much into strong acoustic guitar-playing. I mean I still am, but I was really like, “I need to hit this thing really hard”. I needed the rhythm, so that’s why I would come up with those types of very rhythmic, percussive “digging in” songs. That would have been the motivation behind all of those ones that I’m mentioning — to play aggressive guitar.