And the Hello and I'm Brian O'Connor.

And joining us today is an Irish singer and songwriter who first became known in the mid-1990s

as Front Woman of Dance Pop Duo Moloko before embarking on an impressively eclectic

solo career in the mid 2000s. In October 2020 she released her acclaimed

fifth solo album, Rochine Machine and she joined us recently over Zoom from her home in Spain for a chat about that and lots more.

We're very happy to welcome the fabulous Roshine Murphy to the show.

Roshine was born in 1973 in County Wicklow Island and grew up in the small East Coast town of Arclo,

then at the age of 12 moved with their family to Manchester, England. She was surrounded by music as a child

and first started singing at Lively Family Get-togethers. As a teen she got into bands

like Jesus and Mary Chain, but Whole Surfers and Sonic Youth, and at 14 joined a band herself,

namely a stockboard-based post-punk outfit by the name of Anterquoise car crash, the.

Snappy. Yeah, her parents moved back to Ireland not long afterwards, but Rauchein chose to remain in Manchester, where she immersed herself in the city's vibrant music scene of the late 80s and early 90s.

She later moved to Sheffield where in 1994 she met musician and producer Mark Bryden at a party.

They became a couple and in spite of the fact that Rauchein had no prior professional music or

recording experience, the pair began working together almost immediately, their early work drawing

on electronic dance and trip hop influences.

There was swiftly signed to Echo Records before the label had even heard any of the music they were making, and in 1995 released debut album, Do You Like My Tight Sweater, which stuck its name from the first words Roshine said to Mark when they met.

How's that for a pickup line?

I am not a doctor followed in 1998 and included the song Sing It Back, a 1999 remix of which by German house

music producer Boris Dlugosh became a huge international hit. Another chart smash was The Time is Now from a Loco's Third album, 2000 Things to Make and Do.

I think you had the CD single didn't you by?

I did. I was obsessed with that bass line.

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