It may be more than two decades since Sophie Ellis-Bextor first burst onto the music scene, but she isn’t planning on slowing down any time soon — for starters, the place she once joked about being buried no longer exists.
Inspired by the fact Bruce Forsyth’s ashes rest beneath the stage of the London Palladium, Ellis-Bextor once imagined hers might go under the old Topshop across the road — until it became an Ikea. That mix of dark humour and quick wit runs through everything she does. She’s the sort of artist who can deliver a perfect pop chorus and then start talking about séance folklore without missing a beat.
