Sophie Ellis-Bextor

And you've got to be at peace, haven't you, with all these chapters.

Absolutely.

So I think they made absolutely the right decision not to stay together.

But at least I know that I was the product of a once happy union.

You don't win any prizes for getting rid of something you later want.

So The Audience was my first band and I started singing in this band when I was 16.

Okay.

So this T-shirt would have, it's a song from our first album.

our only album as it turned out.

So we are going back to 97, 98 with that, oh my word, that's such a long time ago and I'm saying it out loud.

And I brought it along because I always like to give flowers to where it all started because it was such a significant moment for me.

Because if you'd met me at 15, I would have given a really different answer to what I wanted to do than I did at 16.

Because at 15, I thought, oh, maybe I want to act.

Maybe I want to be a lawyer because I liked arguing.

But then when I was 16, I started going clubbing.

I was a massive Britpop fan.

I love music so, so much.

And as soon as I met someone through going clubbing that said, oh, I've got a friend that's looking for a singer in a band.

And I can remember thinking, well, that'll be a good thing to tell my grandchildren I did once that I was in a band.

And honestly, I can remember standing on stage and singing these songs that he'd written and thinking, I found the thing I'm looking for.