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The Independent UK
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Louis Chilton

London Grammar’s Hannah Reid: ‘I was worried that having a child would change me as an artist’

Tarek Mawad

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I had this plan in my head,” says Hannah Reid, the glass-voiced frontwoman of the twice chart-topping indie-pop trio London Grammar. “I was like, ‘OK, I’m giving birth around this time, and then a few months later, it’ll be fine. Everything will be really easy: we can play Glastonbury, and then release the album, and the boys can do the promo, and I’ll just be loving life.’” But you know what they say about the best-laid plans. Six months into motherhood, Reid, 34, was “still covered in baby sick, swimming through a sea of nappies. You can’t do anything, basically,” she says.

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