Berlin-based Swiss singer-songwriter Anna Erhard plays Brighton on back of new album

It comes just a couple of weeks after the release of her third album Botanical Garden. She was also in the UK this time last year.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely

00:07to speak again to Anna Earhart in Berlin and heading to the UK before long. And we've got

00:13a date coming up in Brighton at the Rossi Bar on October 12th. And this, Anna, is on

00:19the back of your new album, your third album. What's happening on that new album?

00:26The album is called Botanical Garden. And what's happening on it? It's hard to break

00:35down in a few phrases, but I guess it's a bunch of pretty random, lyrically random songs

00:42about mundane, daily things.

00:46But you're saying there's also a theme of comparing, the way we do compare and look

00:52at ratings, and that's not necessarily a good thing.

00:56No, I'm not saying it's not. Of course, there's like a theme, I would say, like, I had this

01:03single called 170, which was about me being taller than my friend. And I have this other

01:10song called Botanical Garden, which is the title track. And it's again about this topic,

01:16a bit of our metric culture, about rating everything, basically, right? In this case,

01:24a botanical garden and a person who goes there and isn't even pleased with the flowers or

01:31the parking situation and everything. So it's kind of all these kind of frustration moments.

01:37Do we look too much at ratings then, do you think? We do, don't we?

01:41Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, of course. I don't know. Like sometimes when I'm really like

01:50having a bad, bad Uber drive or something, I will also give a bad rating. But I guess

01:59usually it's unnecessary. Yeah.

02:01Absolutely. Now, you're really pleased to be back in the UK because you're saying you

02:05do get good audiences, that there is an appreciation for your music over here, isn't there?

02:10Yeah, I'm very happy to come again. A couple of the shows are already sold out and that's just

02:17a new feeling for me to know, oh, I'm going to go on tour and the room is going to be full and

02:22that feels really great. That's fantastic. How do you account for the fact that you're

02:26going down so well in the UK? I think I would blame the six music DJs for that.

02:35Not necessarily blame, but it's the exposure.

02:41Blame and that's, yeah, that's really fantastic. And I can see that's really the only promo I

02:49did at the beginning and it worked really well. And that's so nice. Yeah.

02:53Fantastic. Well, enjoy your latest tour to the UK and let's speak again this time next year when

02:59you do your third tour to the UK. Yeah.

03:01To speak to you again, Anna. Thank you.

03:03Let's do that. Bye.