The 31-year-old from Leeds is mostly known for her intimate songs about relationships between the sexes and for a sound that makes listeners want to just cozy up with a warm cup of joe.
Rocking out under the blistering sun at a summertime music festival isn’t exactly what you might expect to do while listening to her music.
But come Aug. 1 ― on the last day of the three-day-long Jisan Valley Rock Festival ― Rae promises to bring the noise at Korea’s biggest music extravaganza as one of its headlining acts.
“We’re going to play a heavier range of music than we (usually) play,” Rae told The Korea Herald.
“I am really happy to be playing at a rock festival. Hopefully, it’s going to be fun because they’re going to hear something different from maybe what they’re going to be expecting.”
About her set at the festival, she added: “Rock festivals bring people together so that’s why I’m hoping with the music we play there will be a bigger crowd than usual. It will be new to people as well who haven’t seen or heard that side of me.”
Rock is not a genre that is too foreign to Rae.
She began her life as a musician as lead vocalist with a rock band called Helen, inspired by contemporaries like Veruca Salt and L7.
“It was the first time I’d seen women with guitars,” she said.
“They are sexy yet still feminist. I wanted to be like that, at the front of something.”
The group played gigs all over Leeds and in the greater Manchester area, eventually becoming the first indie act to be signed to heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records in 1995, sharing the label with acts such as Slipknot. The band was short-lived, however, and dissolved after the bassist became pregnant.
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