PHOEBE KILLDEER
It all started with mother singing my sisters and I to sleep, on full moon nights the household just wasn´t the same, a certain wildness would transpire all of us and things would stay that way until the dawn cracked us clean again...
The dance classes at an early age determined the path I was to take later on. I was fascinated with the relationship between movements and sounds and I always felt that they communicated through a language I could understand.
Tom Waits got to me at the age of 8 and I´ve been a constant listener ever since.
People are my inspiration. They are a never ending source of emotions, feelings, reactions, disturbances and surprises. If you sit long enough you will always catch a moment, just like a photographer who´s caught a story, a thought in a snapshot.
I´m killdeering away... just like 'out in the shed' or 'out of his mind' when he´s had a few too many in the beautiful book 'The man who fell in love with the moon' by Tom Spanbauer. I think we all belong to that detached parallel world where anything can happen.
Influences: silence, Mr Jones who lives on the 4 ^th floor at n45, the lady from the bakery store, tall Juliet from Louisiana and everybody on the A list at 'Will Pass' driving School.
I describe moments I think I´d like to share, feelings portrayed so clearly when it´s obvious we try to hide them. There´s something about being shy, moments of pure delight, things we really shouldn´t talk about, a situation of despair...
There´s always something in people we miss, we just don´t see or look for it. I don't know it´s probably something we don´t want to recognise.
I´ve always admired people who can write and I have a fascination with words and lyrics, the way they are such obvious simple things and yet they become alive with complexity and full with feelings depending on the way you place them or order them and with which tone you pronounce or accentuate them. Words are alive as much as we are and they allow us to share and communicate our feelings in our own personal way which makes it so exciting and huge a world to explore.

Phoebe's performances on NV - Bande A Part :
Dancing with Myself, Human Fly, Bela Lugosi's dead, Escape Myself.