Big, shy, angry.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
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b. 1986
Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, 39, was in the duo Slow Club. After 10 years, she went solo as Self Esteem and received Mercury prize, NME and Brit nominations for her second album, 2021’s Prioritise Pleasure. This year, she won the Ivor Novello Visionary award and released a book and album, both called A Complicated Woman. In March, she stars in David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles at the Duke of York’s theatre, London. She lives in London with her partner.
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Big, shy, angry.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
Having no way of earning money.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
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