In 1998, when she was just 12-years-old, Charlotte Church released an album of religious songs, Celtic trad standards and classical arias called Voice Of An Angel which went double-platinum in both the US (2 million sales) and UK (600,000 sales). But as she moved from her teenage years to adulthood, the Cardiff-born singer developed an interest in much noisier, left-field 'alternative rock', becoming a fan of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Van Pelt, The Hold Steady and more.
In an entertaining 2013 interview with The Quietus, Church singled out Radiohead as her favourite band, telling music writer Simon Price, “I love Radiohead more than I could possibly love anything other than my kids.”
The singer recalled seeing Thom Yorke's band play a “mindblowing” at Coachella festival the previous year, and admitted “I just lost my shit.”
“I got hysterical,” she remembered. “I was in floods of tears.... I’m not a crier, so I was like, Christ this is a bit embarrassing! And then I fell asleep for five minutes, because it got way too much for me.”
