There was a couple of songs that I wrote early on that I kind of knew was defining the direction that I wanted to go in and they were written on an acoustic guitar. I always kind of go back to like that sort of classic way of writing, because I I love that, but then I also like to start figuring out sounds and drums and I think for me it's just instinctively what I like. I was just like, yeah, I love that, so I think it's important not to overthink it. You bring the flowers. I want to love you, but I'm just too sinful. We live in the woods. I know it hurts you, but I'm just trying to feel you love. I got you playing in the fire. Hi, I'm Laura Welsh and I'm here at Avalon Hollywood.

I'm supporting Years & Years tonight. This is my first LA show. And you're watching Young Hollywood Backstage Diaries. So I just came in from Austin last night from South by. Um my first ever South by, which was incredible. And then we just flew into LA last night. My band are just chilling, having some food now. We've literally, like they're saying it's the best food they've had, cause they've just been like living out of like junk food for the past week. So it's nice to actually just chill. It's quite relaxed out here, so which is good. So this is the venue for tonight. Um amazing stage. Really cool. It's an incredible venue. Just had to check out the ceiling.

I first started singing when I was really young, like 10 years old. I remember going to a gig with my mum, she was a musician, just got up on stage and did a a cover and it was like from that moment I just knew that like music was something that I wanted to do. Cause I've been on a shoot today. I was kinda lucky that they did my make-up for me, and which was amazing. But um I love, I always have like um NARS red lipstick that I use a lot. And um MAC as well. Just for foundation and eyeliner. So they're like my essentials. My wardrobe for like South by has definitely kind of been a lot of monochrome. So I've had some really cool check trousers that I've worn.

Um I've got some black and white shoes with gold trims that literally are like my favorite shoes. Um and then this jacket is uh, I like just denims. I've got a couple of denim jackets I've been wearing. This one's from Sandro. Yeah, and then just some jeans and dungarees, kind of vibes, that I think I'm putting on. I was in a band for for a little while, which was an amazing experience. You know, the difference of being solo to in a band, I guess, I really enjoyed that experience and I wouldn't have written the songs that I have for this record without going through that.

The thing is you sometimes maybe have to compromise a bit more when you're in a band, when when you're on your own, you don't. I think that's a big difference. You know, when you write and you go in the studio, I think it's just, it's just your opinion as opposed to four others in that situation. One of the strangest places we performed, um me and Jasmine my keyboard player, we did like in this shop opening, and it was just really strange and there was like a staircase in the middle as we were performing and somebody completely like fell up the stairs as I was like mid-song. So I had to try really hard not to completely lose it on that. So Jasmine was like broken from that.

Hi, I'm Laura Welsh. Thank you so much for watching my Young Hollywood Backstage Diaries, and I'll see you again next time.