Songwriter Eve Belle has already released a demo and is planning to finish work on new material this spring, but her original breakthrough came when she released a haunting cover of Coldplay’s ‘Violet Hill’.
“You don’t really expect them to actually see it or anything, but they did, and they seemed to really like it,” she says. “They put it on their social media and everything.”
The cover got her a great deal of attention from the internet, and a video of her performing it has reached over 100,000 views on YouTube. But most of Belle’s creative energy goes into authoring her own songs, with a songwriting philosophy that emphasises sincerity above all else.
“I’ve always said that the best songs come from the most earnest emotions,” she notes. “It’s not necessarily about negative emotion, it just has to be really sincere.”
To achieve that sincerity, Belle even crosses linguistic lines. Though she is studying French and Spanish in school, it’s her love of the Irish language that inspires her musically.
“I’m fluent in Irish and it’s something I’m very passionate about,” she enthuses. “It’s a very different experience writing in Irish to writing in English. You have to entirely stop thinking in English. It’s one thing being fluent in a language, but it’s a whole other thing to be poetic in that language.”
Hear: Her EP, Sonder, which is available now.
See: Eve supports Frightened Rabbit on their Irish tour from February 2-11.