Imogen Forte
Estrons have been in the studio with producer Alex Newport and are now ready to share the first product of those sessions.
Lilac is dedicated by singer Tali Källström to, ‘an encounter I had with a teenage girl in the early hours of the morning’.
“I drove past her crying in the street with her shoes in her hand and so I decided to turn the car around to check on her,” she continues. “I’d assumed that she was crying about something superficial and I’d also assumed that the man walking a few feet behind her was trying to take advantage. Turns out the man actually lived on that street and the girl was heartbroken because her dad had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer.”
“We often get things wrong because society leads us to create prejudices on genders; the song is myself reflecting on that. It also celebrates human empathy as the girl I helped was genuinely touched that I’d stopped to check she got home okay. I haven’t seen her since that day – but this one goes out to her, anybody who is going through a difficult time and also to all the people out there who have helped me in a crisis. Someone always cares and you can get through it.”
Tour dates:
June
13 – London, UK, House of Vans
July
21 – Sheffield, UK, Tramlines Fringe Festival
28 – Derbyshire, UK, Y Not Fesitval Festival
29 – Cornwall, UK, Leopalooza Festival
August
4 – Kent, UK, Neverworld Festival
September
9 – Manchester, UK, Academy
11 – Nottingham, UK, Rock City
12 – Newcastle, UK, Northumbria SU Institute
19 – Paris, FR, L’Olympic Café
20 – Rotterdam, NL, V11
21 – Tilburg, NL, Cul De Sac, Psycho in Mind
22 – Hamburg, DE, Reeperbahn
23 – Berlin, DE, Maze
November
1 – Leeds, UK, Belgrave Music Hall
2 – Glasgow, UK, King Tut’s
3 – Newcastle, UK, Think Tank
7 – Manchester, UK, Soup Kitchen
8 – Bristol, UK, Louisiana
9 – Nottingham, UK, Bodega
14 – Exeter, UK, Cavern
15 – Birmingham, UK, Castle & Falcon
16 – Brighton, UK, Green Door Store
17 – Caernarfon, UK, Galeri
23 – Carmarthen, UK, The Parrot
December
6 – Cardiff, UK, Globe