And the Welcome everyone to episode 144 episode of Jaker on songwriting.

This is Brian and this is Simon.

And joining us today is an English singer and songwriter

and the front woman of one of the most exciting Merseys

bands around at the moment.

We're tough to welcome the

excellent Louisa Roach if she drew the gun to the show.

We met with Louisa back in early May at Liverpool's fabled Par Street Studios.

It was our second visit to Par Street for the show.

You might remember we were there last year to speak to James and Nick from the Coral.

That's right and we actually bumped into James after wrapping the interview with Louisa didn't we?

We did, yeah. He was in the studio that afternoon along with his right-hand man

Rich Turvy. It's such a hive of activity that place now isn't it? It is yeah. We actually

used Rich's office to do the interview, friendly enough. Yeah he's got a sort of cozy little writing room slash studio hybrid

with an upright piano in the corner, sort of brill building style. Yeah, right up our street.

So thanks, Rich, for allowing us into your inner sanctum as it were.

We're really happy to have Louisa on the show though.

She's an immensely thoughtful songwriter, socially and politically aware with a strong

lyrical point of view, something that's very much needed in the current climate, I'd say.

Definitely, but she has a real sense of pop song craft too, doesn't she?

She sure does, yeah.

Our guest was born and raised on the whirl, across the Mersey from Liverpool.

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