Pigeon-holing the band - technically it’s labeled blues-folk - is difficult because the sound is so unique and varies from one song to another, with shades of rock ’n’ roll, Celtic rock, country, ’60s pop, jazz and torch songs.Fairgoers ride the Roundup on Thursday, July 8, 2021, the opening day of the North Stonington Agricultural Fair. The group has played the Isle of Wight Festival twice, a string of dates at the Edinburgh Fringe, and opened for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Sadie and the Hotheads continued to tour and added band members - pianist Nick Lacey (Barry Walsh will do the American tour), percussionist Terl Bryant, and vocalist Danica Chapman - before hitting the road earlier this year for a British tour with Mike Rutherford’s Mike and the Mechanics.
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“When you’re working on a series like ‘Downton,’ there’s lots of time sitting around waiting to be called to do your scenes,” McGovern explains. A sophomore album, “How Not to Lose Things,” even featured guest vocals from McGovern’s “Downton Abbey” co-star Michelle Dockery, who plays Cora’s daughter Lady Mary. The band played periodically for the next five years as “Downton Abbey” debuted and became an international phenomenon. I suppose there’s some part of my psyche that wanted to do the music all along.”Įventually, McGovern and Nelson enlisted others - Steve’s brother Simon, also a guitarist, bassist Ron Knights, and drummer Rowan Oliver from the electro-pop act Goldfrapp - to form the band and release their debut album “I Can Wait,” which landed generous reviews as “a great pop record” and “very catchy.” When it works, it’s the most amazing feeling. “It’s addictive because there’s such a sense of connection and community up there. “On stage, I feel really happy,” she says.
Singer-songwriters present their own words, thoughts and emotions for an audience to digest, which creates a powerful and intoxicating connection. Actors interpret someone else’s vision, spout someone else’s words, she explains. The evolution proved much different and more personal than acting. You figure things out, but it’s an ongoing process and it took me years.” “I’d perform anywhere I possibly could, and slowly I accumulated a lot of experience. Eventually, McGovern says she summoned the courage for open mic appearances at places around London. Strumming the guitar, she’d then find the melody. “I was getting a lot of pleasure writing these songs,” she laughs, adding that she’d pen lyrics about ordinary things like standing at the school gate waiting for a child after school, feeling frustrated with life, middle age, or subtle tributes to people like the man who drove her daily to Highclere Castle for filming on “Downton Abbey.” “I write down my thoughts as lyrics.” He urged her to write songs, which soon became an obsession for her.
Unlike performing behind the mic, writing came easily to her and she would jot down thoughts, observations and musings.Ī newspaper ad prompted guitar lessons and she found a kindred spirit in instructor Steve Nelson, part of the Nelson Brothers country-roots trio.
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McGovern - who was nominated for an Oscar for her work in the 1981 movie “Ragtime,” and starred opposite Robert DeNiro in “Once Upon a Time in America” and in Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” before moving to London with her film director husband Simon Curtis in the 1990s - says she started writing song lyrics when her children were in school. It’s something that anyone can have, and reminds us that we must honor the inner Sadie in us all.” “That morphed into this thing that is potentially in anybody, the need to honor that voice within. “Sadie, at first, was the girl who could make the walk from the chair to the microphone,” she says simply.
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