A few years ago, long-time indie staples Slow Club went out quietly. The process was documented in a road film, Our Most Brilliant Friends, that followed them on tour for their final album; it’s hardcore-fans-only stuff, but might one day take on a renewed importance, capturing as it does the sowing of the Self Esteem seeds.
Rebecca Taylor, one half of the band, was sick of it, not least because of what she perceived to be a lack of ambition; at one point in the film, she complains that she wants the group to be bigger - she wants to be on Later…with Jools Holland. Fast forward six years, and Taylor, via her reinvention as a solo artist, has appeared on Later…, and the Hootenanny, and Taskmaster, for that matter.
She’s been on the cover not just of the usual glut of music mags but also of Grazia; she’s done the rounds of the UK’s TV chat shows, too, as well as national radio, having appeared alongside Eddie Redmayne on Zoë Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show last year. On social media, where she remains a wickedly funny presence, she refuses to let anybody forget that the Danish Girl star left with a vinyl copy of her second record, Prioritise Pleasure, under his arm.
