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‘Nature reminded me you still have to live’: Jane Weaver on grief, reinvention and 80s Russian aerobics music
The psychedelic musician’s new album trades her obscure influences for stark folk, inspired by the death of her father – then warped through Google Translate. ‘You don’t to write too much about yourself,’ she says
They’ve taken in acid folk, space rock, eerie, drifting electronic experimentation, hypnotic, vaguely krautrock-y instrumentals and full-on pop, all of them informed by separate moodboards of obscure influences that speak of a profoundly eclectic taste and a lot of time spent digging through esoteric records. At Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown festival in 2007, she curated a night of “the Lost Ladies of Folk”, which featured dimly remembered late 60s singer-songwriters Bonnie Dobson, Wendy Flower and Susan Christie alongside Cate Le Bon and Weaver, then heavily pregnant. By the early 00s, she was fronting the alternately psychedelic and folky quartet Misty Dixon, part of the collective of Manchester artists around the Twisted Nerve label, founded by Badly Drawn Boy and Weaver’s partner, the musician/DJ/graphic designer Andy Votel.
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