It was hard not to detect the irony as Megan Washington opened her set with Fighting The Good Fight. “So many friends. So many friends…” she sang, before interjecting “What, there must be like twenty five of you?” Alas, she was telling the truth and, whilst her remark may have cut the tension in the room, it also highlighted how sparse the music hall in The Deaf Institute was.
I’m not sure whether it was the cold Sunday night, under-promotion of the gig or simply Washington’s lack of a Manchester fan base that led to the empty venue, but Washington trooped on unperturbed. She...
When I speak to Megan Washington it’s 9am in her New York base. Yawning, she seems somewhat distant from the world which only serves to offer a deeper insight into the mind of the award-winning Australian singer songwriter.
Her debut UK album, I Believe You Liar, is being released on 7 November, more than a year after it’s Australian release. When I ask Washington about promoting it as a debut after all this time she says “It’s a funny sort of process”. She speaks timidly – a far cry from the confident persona I’ve seen on prime-time Australian panel show Spicks and Specks –...
