Gena Rose Bruce picks five dinner party guests, drinks tequila & smites rude phone starers

Gena Rose Bruce is proud of her crooked teeth and we instantly love her, contends Mikey Cahill

Need a new folk pop hero? Sure you do. Gena Rose Bruce took time off whale-watching to answer these questions.

Real name?

Gena Rose Bruce.

Guilty pleasure?

Sugar.

Where is home?

Mitcham, Eastern suburbs.

Career Plan B?

Cetologist.

Biggest annoyance?

People looking on their phone while you’re having a conversation with them.

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Earliest Memory?

I still remember the day some kid stole my lunch when I was in three year old.

kindergarten.

Your Best Quality?

My crooked teeth.

And your Worst?

I’m a nervous driver.

5 Dream dinner party guests? Paul McCartney, My Grandpa, Malala Yousafzai, Alexa Chung, and David Attenborough.

5 Desert Island discs?

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Etudes - Philip Glass

Colour Green - Sibylle Baier

In My Own Time - Karen Dalton

Woman - Angel Olsen

Advice to teenage self?

Don’t take everything so personally.

Gena Rose Bruce patiently waiting for an avocado to ripen.

What did you have for breakfast today?

Same as everyday, avocado on toast and coffee x 2.

Top of your bucket list?

I’m desperate to travel to Italy.

Biggest inspiration?

Too many to name and they are changing all the time.

Secret crush?

I love French actress Audrey Tautou.

Secret skill?

I’m actually quite athletic and get pretty competitive in sport.

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

I still see a child.

Starstruck moment?

I saw Jaden Smith recently eating ramen.

Career highlight?

Holding my first ever Gena Rose Bruce vinyl.

Favourite tipple?

Tequila.

FUN SONGS BIT AND A REWARD FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS:

Song that always makes you shake your rump and nearly split your pants and why? I’m sorry to be that typical songwriter but every Beatle song ever written!! They fire a new emotion in me everytime I listen.

Song that is a hidden gem that not many people know about but everyone should know about and love…and how you discovered it?

Girl by Sibylle Baier, I actually discovered her via Spotify recommendations, so thanks Spotify!

Song that you would gladly listen to 5 times in a row if you were stuck in an elevator for half an hour and you had to think calm thoughts? Something On Your Mind - Karen Dalton.

Song to prepare you for battle, fire you the f**k up and make you feel like you were armed to teeth and why? Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn. It is a song so innocently twisted.

Song to get someone you rather fancy in the mood for luuuuuuurve?

Nocturnes, Op. 9: No.2 in E flat - Frederic Chopin.

How did you develop your creative vision? I’m very imaginative and have always been a story teller, especially when I was a child I used to lie a lot.

REVIEW

CAN’T MAKE YOU LOVE ME

GENA ROSE BRUCE

(Dot Dash)

4 stars

Gena Rose Bruce album

Gena Rose Bruce uses bountiful guitar jangles, a husky, lower register voice and her willingness to lay out truths. This low-key debut shines in Angel Face, where she really gets the bit between the teeth and you swear you’ve heard this song before (in a good way). I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You pays homage to Angel Olsen — a very fine influence. The Way You Make Love, For You and Coming Down contain cool, confident confessions. She’s blossoming into a spruce Bruce. Big up the Mitcham massive.

HEAR: Can’t Make You Love Me (Dot Dash) out now.

SEE: Rocksteady Records, city. Fri, 6pm; Labour In Vain, Fitzroy, Jul 4; Northcote Social Club, Northcote, Jul 31. facebook.com/GenaBruceMusic

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