CLOSEUP Artist Spotlight: Prima Queen
This week CLOSEUP Spoke with all-female indie five-piece Prima Queen for our Artist Spotlight feature following the release of a special live version of their single ‘Water & Oil’ to discuss all things live – very fitting.
Prima Queen, it’s great to have a chat! We love your music as you well know. Tell us about your highlights of the last 12 months?
The main highlight would definitely be going on a UK tour with The Big Moon! We were really excited to play Green Man Rising Stage but then obviously Corona happened.
We also did a Dolly Parton tribute set supporting Black Midi at the Windmill Country Christmas Show 2019 where we debuted our pink cowboy hats
In the past year, we’ve released our first two singles and one of our unreleased tracks was featured on the Windmill Brixton’s Live album released a few weeks ago. [Listen here]
What part of the musical process do you enjoy most, and why? is it performing live, creating your tracks or..?
We love performing and touring so much! But we also really enjoy the process of writing the songs together because it’s very therapeutic
Your tunes have been listened to tens of thousands of times across the world as Spotify informs us, Spotify is now such a big player in the industry, how important do you think it is for acts?
Really important, whilst it’s a great platform for being discovered on, it is a shame how little artists get paid per stream.
If you created a Prima Queen Festival, and could pick three headliners, who would you go for?!
Mitski, Lizzo and The Beatles.
How have you been coping with this Corona nonsense, tell us how it’s shifted things for you as a band & the live side of things especially? Of course, we had some live plans with the band, but we’ll have to keep that quiet for now eh!
Lol, that’s not keeping it very quiet is it haha! We’re obviously gutted about all of the cancelled gigs, but that goes for all musicians at the moment. We just hope that by the time gigs are back on again that all of the independent venues (which are so crucial to the live music scene) have been able to stay open!
We’re focusing mostly on writing new songs and getting them ready for the studio – we’re pretty used to the whole writing over facetime thing so it hasn’t been too hard for us.
