Everyone else is eating tea and biscuits and you're stuck in a box. I hate going off on my own into vocal booths, they are so lonely. "We haven't set foot in a real studio the whole time. It was recorded in their London homes, mostly in a shed in Rollo's garden. And in between walking the dogs and talking about the world, an album sort of happened." The album has been co-written and produced with her older brother, Rollo Armstrong, the founder of club band Faithless and a collaborator since her breakthrough. And the older you get the more you have to look back on and the more wisdom you get to look back with." "Maybe songs are always a way of looking back. I think when you come out of that initial haze of having super-small kids, you get these really intense waves of feeling that you're not used to having any more. Dido pauses to consider where these songs have sprung from. She recognises a thematic thread, "a mixture of nostalgia and regret at choices you have made, and questioning whether they were the right ones". There are homilies to the quiet resilience of ordinary, enduring love ( Hurricanes) and a bittersweet ballad about the unconditional love parents bear for children who will one day grow up and leave ( Have to Stay). "My songs are all little micro moments, when something small has a big impact on me." "I'm completely made up of small emotions," she says. Her songs, as ever, are sweet, melodic vignettes.ĭido, performing for fans in the UK back in 2003. Her voice is unchanged, clear and soft with a slight catch as she rises to high notes. I just stopped playing it to anyone but my family."ĭido has a new album, Still on My Mind, coming in March. I am always singing, always writing songs. "I have been having a lovely time, being with my family, seeing friends, seeing the world," Dido says. She married novelist Rohan Gavin in 2010 and they live together in north London, not far from where she grew up, with their son, Stanley, born in 2011. Time off has evidently been good for her. The title of her last, 2013's Girl Who Got Away, appeared to confirm she was bowing out of the limelight. She quietly released two more albums, without much promotion. "The last big show I did was Live 8 (in 2005) and at that point I'd been going hard at it for over six years and thought I'd take a little bit of time off. "I really didn't plan on stopping," she insists. * Bic Runga's stolen moments of creativity * Fazerdaze: Why Amelia Murray's debut album is 'quite a revealing record' * Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders rock on and into NZ
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