Raleigh Ritchie Meets Elz The Witch | JD In The Duffle Bag

JD In The Duffle Bag Podcast

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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One of Britain's proudest exports in recent years, Raleigh Ritchie has made his mark on the screen and on the stage as an actor and musician. Sitting down with Elz The Witch the Game of Thrones star gets into his early years in London, struggling to listen to the music he loved growing up, people discovering his music through his acting and more...

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0:00.0	How are you? How's life? Life's good. Yeah. Good. I'm happy. I used to listen to one of your songs,
0:06.6	literally. Was it like a few years ago? The sound wave one? Never say die. Never say die. Yeah.
0:11.6	One of my favorite songs. I used to listen to it all the time. Thank you. Sorry. I love the beat on
0:16.4	it because I'm like a really big fan of like production and tracks and I think that was sick. Yeah,
0:21.1	sound waves like a magician. Yeah. Amazing. He's so, he's so good. Yeah. It's cool, dude. When did you start,
0:29.0	did you start making music before the actin? Yeah. Yeah. I started making music when I was at school.
0:37.3	And it was just like just basically you just get rid of some energy that I needed to get rid of.
0:44.4	I used to have right songs for other people to sing at school and then they'd like try and convince
0:48.9	them to sing it. There's just one girl that I worked with a lot in particular and I kept telling her
0:55.6	what to do. I was like, no, no, you got to sing a nice one. It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes. It's
0:59.4	like, no, no, no, no, no, no. She'd be like, you sing it, you sing it. She's like, you sound like
1:06.2	you can at least hold a night like when you sing, you're singing to me, telling me what to do.
1:11.6	So why don't you sing your own songs if they're sorry person, don't get off people's singing.
1:18.0	So that's kind of how how old were you at this point? Like high school?
1:22.9	About 40. Okay. 30. 14. What kind of songs were you writing at 14?
1:28.1	Like really melodramatic. Like Neil Salt was basically what I was doing.
1:33.3	Really? Yeah. Because all I was listening to was like music so child and like Bellow,
1:40.0	Erica, Jill Scott. So it was just I was just basically copying. Replicating them. Yeah.
1:45.3	At Amy Winehouse, it's just like whatever, whatever like emotions or whatever content,
1:52.9	whatever the concept of a song was, I would just be like, well, what's my version of that?
1:57.6	So I'd like to sing with these love songs. I've never been in love.
2:03.7	I was making up. Yeah. I don't want to be like, this is very like grown up, very advanced.
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