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# Eliza Carthy makes voice
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/see/
- Published: 2008-06-27T15:06:09.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:02.000Z
- Author: Anthony Barnett
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](https://www.opendemocracy.net/http/ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net)**):** Eliza Carthy talks about her new album, how working with corporate music is like trying to breath underwater and tells [Alexis Petridis](http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2287389,00.html?ref=opendemocracy.net#article%5Fcontinue) she needs to keep the BNP out of her hair. Is there a coded warning to Paul Kingsnorth [in his debate with Vron Ware](https://www.opendemocracy.net/): "She also admonishes folkies who romanticise "the idyll of the past" ("What bit of the past was good? Slave-based capitalism? Syphilis?"), is disarmingly frank about the difficulties of spending much of her 20-year career working with her parents, and talks passionately about the need for English culture to be supported, before worrying that she sounds like a Daily Mail reader