Her talk of rhythm here surprise me, as it seems to me she quite deliberately refuses to allow her songs to become rhythmically predictable.

“I can do predictable,” she laughs. “I grew up listening to the likes of Joni Mitchell, so where I use lyrical or melodic cliché it is as a signpost for the listener, but I want to avoid predictability at all costs. On this CD I am trying to touch people. Although its not, I hope, predictable, I also hope it doesn’t seem arty farty. I really wanted to communicate with this album and to provide something enjoyable and uplifting. I would like the album to endure, and be seen as something lasting.”

In some ways, after the break up of such a long-lived and critically acclaimed band, Natasha is almost starting her career again from scratch. Our interview closes in some deep soul searching. Natasha feels it is shallow of her to crave success and yet admits she is driven to succeed and cannot stop herself following this career path. I have watched from the sides as she has packaged, marketed and re-invented herself with a drive urgent enough to shatter “artistic cool”. I ask her why she is so desperate for success.

“Well, its not for me, its for the music. I just want it to be heard. I know it can make a difference to someone, somewhere and I just think the music should be heard.”

Or, in the words of the late, great Townes Van Zandt, when writing about misunderstood artists;- they do what they do “for the sake of the song”!!
Contact:- website www.natashajones.org e mail:- natashahoneypot@hotmail.com

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