Episode 141: Pixie Lott
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Singer Pixie Lott has had a ’crazy, happy time’ this past year: having a baby, bringing out a new album ‘Encino’, and moving into a family home near her mum, dad and siblings.
We talked about how we both started in the music industry when we were teenagers and realised we share the same work ethic of ‘just keep turning up’. We also discussed the joy and the worry that comes when we say no to a gig, and how we look after our singing voices. Let’s just say, Pixie does it a lot better than me!
Pixie's new album, the first for 10 years, touches on the themes of love, family, mental health, nostalgia and also meditation. Meditation is something Pixie discovered when going through a tough time, and found very helpful. To this day she still practises it whenever she can.
When Pixie came to my house to record this chat, her mum Beverley came too, to look after her gorgeous little one year old Bertie. And while we talked, two of my (rather bigger) sons demonstrated their wrestling techniques for him… ha ha! …sorry about that Pixie!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lysbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.1 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.6 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.1 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, hello to you, and I'm going to say happy new year, even though we are a week into 2025, |
| 0:40.2 | because I normally say happy New Year's people for about a month. |
| 0:44.5 | I just like it. |
| 0:45.5 | I feel like it's a nice way to start conversation. |
| 0:48.1 | So I say it to you, and I feel like it's okay. |
| 0:50.7 | It's socially acceptable because we're barely into double figures of january anyway |
| 0:54.9 | so how was your christmas how was your new year i hope it was nice ours was actually really |
| 1:03.6 | lovely i finished work on the 17th of december having had one of the craziest years of my entire |
| 1:10.8 | life in terms of my work, |
| 1:13.0 | loads of adventures, loads of cool stuff, but also just a feeling of like galloping somewhat. |
| 1:20.2 | But what a way we finished, we sort of broke up with one of the biggest things I've done in my |
| 1:25.5 | career, I think, which was being given the |
| 1:28.0 | opportunity, and I would say honour, of hosting a New Year's E disco on BBC. So we had to put together |
| 1:37.5 | an hour of music, either side of Big Ben's thongs and the fireworks on BBC One. It's still on eye player if you fancy having a look. |
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