Biography

Phoebe Green dares to confront her reflection, holding the mirror up to her face so closely she can see her breath on it. Who’s there? A shock of tangerine curls which earned her the childhood moniker of ‘Shirley Temple of the north’; eyes painted with strokes of lime green; right hand inked with the constant reminder: Lucky Me. For years, the singer-songwriter has been circling the surface, refining her own story through the stories of others, filtered through a prism of experience that always allowed her to hold herself at a safe, controllable remove. Since her first project 02:00AM, released as a teenager on the cusp of adulthood, Green has found it easier to blend, chameleon-like, into the colours the world expects to see, hiding under a blanket of dreamy, guitar-led indie-pop. But now, as a woman of 24, she is no longer content to conform. With the release of her debut record Lucky Me, at last, we find Phoebe. “This record has got way more to do with my relationship with myself - and therefore with other people - rather than being completely external,” she shares. “I’m really dissecting my behaviour and asking why I actively enable myself to fall into certain habits.” Across 13 acts, it’s a frustrated self-interrogation, blinding herself with torchlight to extract explanations for her own behaviours, contradictions and complexities – but through this process of knowing herself, she arrives at a place of peace and self-forgiveness.