Why did skye edwards leave morcheeba

Part of the Process sounds like a country band with a hip hop beat and that felt quite different to the rest of the trip hop acts. Certainly on Big Calm we had songs on there that had country and Western influences, psychedelic influences and rock and pop.

My brother was really into hip hop — bands like New Kingdom and Wu-Tang. After Paul left the band in , Ross and Skye continued making music together, releasing their Skye Ross album in Watching their set at Boomtown last month, they sound as much like Morcheeba as ever, with their new tracks sitting comfortably alongside classics like The Sea and Part of the Process.

Skye, having made a slow and steady transition from vocalist to fully-fledged frontwoman since their first record, lit up the stage and seemed to be having as much fun performing as any fresh new act. I love performing and I love getting dressed up, I make the clothes that I wear on stage.

Paul finally quit after 's Head Up High. Reportedly, he proposed that Ross and Edwards buy out his stake in the Morcheeba brand name for a small fortune. They decided to alter their handle instead. Ross joked that Morcheeba's bio was like "a soap opera". The version of Morcheeba is sanguine, Edwards assures. But we still sound like Morcheeba. It's still myself singing; Ross on guitar.

He's now producing But, creatively, it's a lot more fun. The Godfreys have averted any Gallagher-level public feuding. Says Edwards, "He's not involved in Morcheeba, as far as creating the music - and, the live side of things, he hasn't been on tour with us for at least 14 years. So it just feels quite normal for him to not be there. Morcheeba, she laughingly admits, doesn't reach near the same heights of feuding, let alone infidelity, and she's certain — this time — that her partnership with Ross Godfrey is a solid platform.

As odd as it sounds for a band with nine studio albums, a swag of gold and platinum sales awards from the pre-streaming era and an instantly welcomed name on festival bills, Morcheeba are in a rebuilding mode. Blaze Away was their first album in five years and they spent much of touring, looking to recapture their fanbase. This year they're meant to be preparing their next album, but the offers to play live — including an Australian tour next month built around the Bluesfest music festival — keep rolling in.

While their debut album Who Can You Trust? Club grooves, soul horns, jazz licks and even traces of English folk have influenced their sound. You can dance to Morcheeba, or cry to them, is how Edwards has previously put it. We don't have anyone breathing down our necks anymore, saying 'you have to write this kind of song'," Edwards says. So I guess singing became my plan B! Who are your main musical influences? As a teenager, I started listening to music that my older sisters would play, like Toots and The Maytals and Gwen Guthrie.

My eldest kids are 25 and 22, so I hear new stuff from them all the time. Which of your songs are you most attached to? I have a soft spot for The Sea from our Big Calm album. Another song called For The Day, on my 4th solo album, is very personal to me.

I wrote it for a friend who went through a divorce and was estranged from her son for a year and a half. She said she would have conversations with him in her dreams, it was a difficult time for them both and they really missed each other.

Eventually, they were able to put their differences aside. When I played her the song and video, she cried. A couple of years later I went through a similar heartbreaking experience with a family member, and that song became even more poignant and dear to me.

I always smile when I hear that phrase. Unfortunately, it upset a lot of fans when it was released, they thought it was too uptempo and far removed from the cool chill-out Morcheeba sound.

I felt that way too at the time. Bands loathing their biggest hits. Michael Stipe hates Shiny Happy People.