“I’ve Got This Mouthful of Vomit”: Please Enjoy E^ST’s Story Of How She Signed Her Record Deal
"Turns out the toilets are past reception, and you have to sign in and get a pass printed for you before you can move past. So I'm giving them my I.D. and they're like 'How you going?' and I've still got vomit in my mouth."
You know what it’s like: you roll up in your publisher’s sports car for a big meeting with your potential new record label, and it just happens that you suddenly need to throw up.
So what do you do? Well, if you’re E^ST, you subtly try to hold the vomit in your own mouth, before running through the offices to find a bathroom and accepting a mint from a kindly security guard.
“I walked into this huge building…I’ve just got this mouthful of vomit,” E^ST told Music Junkee when she dropped by our offices for the latest Artist Alphabet. “Turns out the toilets are past reception, and you have to sign in and get a pass printed for you before you can move past reception. So I’m giving them my I.D. and they’re like ‘How you going?’ and I’ve still got vomit in my mouth…it was so bad.”
The musician has jollier stories to share, however — including the time she was a totally starstruck 16-year-old, standing in front of Chris Martin at an afterparty.
“At one point, one of the guys from the label comes up to me, and he’s like, ‘There’s someone here who really wants to meet you.’ … And he kinda took me to one side of the room, and Chris Martin from Coldplay was standing there, waiting for me.”
His interest piqued by the fact that E^ST was at the time unsigned, the songwriter behind ‘Yellow’ gave her “heaps of advice” during a liminal time in her life.
“He was like, ‘Just follow your gut.’ And then the next day I decided that I was going to sign with [a] label. And I’m still with them today, and I love them very much.”
The singer also discussed a wild time on a motorbike, and her favourite concert stories — all of them very wholesome. Watch the interview in full, here: