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Sharleen Spiteri: ‘Two slices of bread, proper butter, a pack of crisps and squeeze it down’


The musician on her favourite post-gig snack, her grandfather’s allotment and her personal hell of a set menu

That focus and having his thing [means] he understands what it is for me when I’m like: “This is everything: writing a song or making my music.” So that, to me, was appealing. Prep is like us doing a soundcheck, there’s a minute you can go in and say: “Oh, what are you doing?” But showtime, when you go into a kitchen, when there’s customers in the restaurant, it’s like: “Get out my way, I’m coming through!” There’s a little farm just beside us in north Wales where they literally milk the cows, so it’s non-homogenised and you put the money in a little honesty box.

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