![]() And then there are some bits that rhyme.” Littlemore downplays the journals’ contents: “Most of are pathetic attempts at writing suicide notes. “I always write all my own lyrics, so this was my first time working with someone else’s work.” “I’d just lift little bits, and then add my own,” she says. Turning up to Littlemore’s LA home, Sidewinder was given a stack of his personal journals to turn into lyrics. “Nick wrote to me and was like, ‘Do you want to record? I’ve got a bunch of poems, and I want to do a record in a whole new way: just a continuous stream of music, completely free’,” she recalls. Littlemore’s intergalactic success vis-à-vis Empire Of The Sun fomented a decampment to Los Angeles, where one day the thought struck him to make good on his promise to Sidewinder. After the dissolution of Bridezilla, Sidewinder spent a decade in London fashioning a new pop persona, ricocheting from one A&R dinner to another. ![]() “Whilst music isn’t gonna save the planet, it’s a good soundtrack for the one that’s disintegrating” – Nick LittlemoreĬalendars would be turned over many times before that “orchestral” record became a reality. “I filed it away, thinking, ‘If I was ever in a position to make a grandiose record with her, that would be really cool’.” “One day, she told me she wanted to make an orchestral record,” Littlemore says. So, they took Sidewinder instead, with Littlemore as her (unofficial) legal guardian. PNAU had just penned ‘Embrace’, one of their biggest hits to date featuring Ladyhawke – who was too busy to tour with them. Nick was just this total angel who loved my voice and was really nice.” “I was around a bunch of young 20-year-old dudes that were kind of assholes. “I met a bald, toothless Nick,” Sidewinder giggles. She sang for Sydney band Mercy Arms on an EP Littlemore was producing. Sidewinder first met Littlemore when she was 15 years old, already the frontwoman of avant-teen group Bridezilla (“They sounded like smack rock, except none of them were junkies,” Littlemore says). Her 2019 debut solo album ‘Forever Or Whatever’ made maximalist synth pop the backdrop to a manifesto of 21st century free love – funded in part by the sale of her worn underwear. This doesn’t contradict the sonic aesthetic of her solo music, which sounds like R-rated Carly Rae Jepsen. Sidewinder looks like an Old Hollywood star – with seemingly poreless skin and platinum blonde hair – professing an old-school belief in the “purity of art”. Holiday Sidewinder, as Littlemore matter-of-factly puts it in our chat, is the “progeny of hippies”: she was born to country singer Lo Carmen and set-builder Jeremy Sparks, her godfather is actor Noah Taylor, her step-mother is actress Claudia Karvan, and her maternal grandfather is pianist Peter Head. Littlemore calls in from a studio room in Marrickville, Sydney, often picking up a microphone or fidgeting with dials while not engaged in conversation.
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