CPI Archive 2008: With a new album and a new outlook, Gemma Hayes is back on form.
Andrew Hamilton chats to the Tipperary songstress about her quest for musical redemption.
JANUARY 25, 2008. Unseasonably warm rain has washed the hills of Beachwood Canyon for more than four days, creating fast-running gullies, impromptu puddles and a new whitewashed look of freshness. As the mist finally gives way to California sunshine, the rain-soaked landscape begins to shimmer in a kaleidoscope of brilliant light. A liquid horizon, an oil painting that never quite dried — Los Angeles has never looked so beautiful. Curled up before her bay window, Gemma Hayes sits to write. Still wet from her slow walk in the torrent, drops of water from her hair mingle and blotch with ink as she writes. Oblivious to the staining, she works unheeded. True confessions can bear no distraction. This is a day of self-atonement, a day for Gemma Hayes to draw a line under her musical past, her record label days, and re-announce herself to the world. She writes a letter to her fans. "It can be so hard to really connect with people. I just wanted to do something where I felt that I was really opening up to people. Just take away all of this impersonal stuff — there was so much unnecessary stuff in between me and the people that I want to reach,” she says.
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