London Can Often Be My Oppressor

Keep Calm And Blame Coco

Interview With Coco Sumner

Some people want to know about Coco Sumner’s style, but we want to know what she’s reading, eating, watching and listening to.

EAT
You've said that after music, food is probably your next favourite thing in the world. Give us your Top 5 foods:
1. Fillet of cow - because I live off it and its good for you accompanied by mash potato and French beans.
2. Salmon and chilli pasta - I can't taste things very well so I tend to put chilli and pepper on everything.
3. Roast chicken - I love the process of making a Sunday roast and roast chicken is my favourite roasted animal.
4. Pytt y Panna - a traditional Swedish meal made of chopped potatoes, chopped carrots and chopped oxen. It’s fried and it’s ****in’ boss.

FILM
Top 5 favourite films:
1. The Jungle Book
2. Let The Right One in
3. The Baader Mienhof Complex
4. District 9
5. Cape Fear

We've heard you love film scores. Top 5 film soundtracks:
1. Das Boot
2. Schindler’s List
3. Requiem For A Dream
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Moon

BOOKS
Top 5 favourite reads:
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
3. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
4. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
5. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

MUSIC
Top 5 favourite albums:
1. Laughter: Ian Dury and The Blockheads
2. Tango In The Night: Fleetwood Mac
3. ABBA: ABBA
4. Man Machine: Kraftwerk
5. Body Talk Pt. 2: Robyn

The opening line of your song Caesar is "I want to annoy, and I'm going to enjoy it!" What would your family say is your most annoying habit?
I am the family jackdoor. Things seem to go missing when I go home.

As you are on tour, tell us your Top 5 travel essentials:
1. Toothbrush
2. Shoe shine
3. First Aid Kit
4. A torch
5. Phone charger

What have you enjoyed most about doing the Urban Outfitters in store
performances?
I have enjoyed the intimacy of the acoustic shows.

At the UO Oxford Circus in store you made the very un-diva demand of a cup of tea with one sugar. What has been your most diva demand to date?
We asked for a pony in Germany. We didn't get it

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