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Olivia Dean & Rachel Chinouriri on what they love about each other | Field Recordings
Feb 9, 2025
At Barn on the Farm festival in Gloucester, The Forty-Five's Cere Ebanks caught up with festi-season besties, Olivia Dean and Rachel Chinouriri to spread some love and mutual admiration.
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hello welcome to Barn on the farm we're
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joined by Rachel and Olivia hello hello
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thanks for joining us and having a
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little chat no problemo is this your
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first barn on the farm no not for me
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it's my second time
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first this is my first time yeah just
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got here an hour ago
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I'm really excited yeah good and you
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were saying earlier you haven't camped
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before have you I haven't cooked today
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yeah because there's a belted available
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yeah I think we need to do it I think I
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need to you know I think you need to get
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into there tonight yeah ground yourself
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it's like yeah it's not really camping
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place to start yeah come on guys like
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but I think it's a good place to start
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you're right that is good yeah I just
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want to be traumatized by the experience
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I've heard some deadly stories nice nice
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bugs yeah it's lovely everyone I hope so
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yeah yeah
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um okay so Rachel I watched your set it
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was really beautiful I actually it's
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like a full-on lump in my throat when
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you went because you introduce each song
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of like a little story yeah and you were
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talking about like one day we're all
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going to be memories and voice notes and
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pictures so in the theme of love I just
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wanted to ask like what do you love
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about each other or love admire about
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each other's music about this girl here
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yeah
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[Laughter]
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I didn't see Rachel's hit today because
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I was on the motorway but not because I
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didn't want it
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[Applause]
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I've seen it I've seen Rachel many times
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before and she's absolutely toward the
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force onto the stage she owns the stage
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running around hey hey hey but she has
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the most beautiful voice in the world
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she has a very Angelic voice
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so
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um Olivia loves to speak to my traumas
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like I'll be traumatized I've got a song
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from Olivia D I'm like oh okay here we
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go I'm just making me you know echo dive
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all the Tunes back at the hardest part
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just got me devastated
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um also got new album she's just
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throwing out just breaking everyone's
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heart I'm just obsessed with the tone
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The Vibes gorgeous personality gorgeous
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gorgeous girl and a true songwriter
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thank you thank you darling you're
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welcome darling thank you that was
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beautiful and concise I loved it had to
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keep it quick you know yes yeah very
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emote you connect uh quite well on the
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emotional level I think so yes I think
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we're both you know broken-hearted
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girlies absolutely learning to love
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again yeah and saying to these men no
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thank you yeah I know that's right I'm
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currently retired yeah oh you're retired
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yeah
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[Laughter]
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oh yeah
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yeah friends before they've got your
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cheerleaders exactly yes
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um okay wonderful and you know I'm gonna
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sweat out this silk press every time
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she's on stage
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thank you
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I wish we see Rachel in the crowd like
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and then the phone's out she's like I've
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got you the content babe but I probably
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come through after that yeah
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that is a lot that means a lot okay it
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feels like really really dark yeah
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that's true damage all of it I'll do it
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anytime yeah yeah that is so beautiful
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um okay so a little question about
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touring um this is just general advice
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or what you personally do to remain like
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happy and healthy healthy when you're on
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tour
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[Music]
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no
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I love touring do you like Dorian
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I have a singing bowl a singing oh yes
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yeah no you have the singing bowl
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whether I love toilet I love what I love
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about tour is meeting the fans after
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yeah that's the thing where it's like
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yes this is worth it but sometimes I'm
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like maybe I put so much pressure on
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myself and I'm like super straight but
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then I bring my singing bomb little
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sound thing okay yeah yeah like the
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Tibetan yeah that's how I know rage was
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around because I can hear it yeah
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yeah she must be here
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yeah like how do you stay happy and
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healthy on touring because like you said
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put a lot of pressure on yourself it can
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just be a lot of pressure in general I
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think I personally before and after the
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show that hour is sacred for me like I
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don't really want to talk to anybody
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before the show yeah and afterwards let
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me just decompress real quick because
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you need to warm up and warm down into
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that because it's quite an intense thing
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to go on stage yeah and sing about your
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trauma yeah so I like to take take time
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repeatedly repeatedly yes
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yeah yeah that's a really good point
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like
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considering if I very much seeing from
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the soul and your own experiences
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had had like did it take a lot to get
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over repeatedly reliving your trauma or
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is that something you have to learn to
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get over it's my job now yeah for some
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reason I love to do it yeah I've got a
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choice is it kind of like rewriting the
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trauma because now it's something
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positive has come out of it yeah
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yes and no I think what it is is when
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other people next to the same thing that
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you connect to I think sometimes trauma
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can really be heightened when you feel
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like you're doing it by yourself so when
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other people can feel what you've gone
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through in a different way or a similar
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way and you can see it and you can feel
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it I think that's you feel a bit of
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comfort so yeah it kind of feels a bit
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more like homely like sometimes I come
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out I'm like okay these are my people
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yeah that makes sense yeah I would agree
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yeah retweet
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gorgeous
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you said it perfectly yeah like a very
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good point actually yeah a lot of lonely
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people out there yeah
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um
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thank you
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um okay and finally
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um how did you two meet
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College together we went College
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together but like we knew each other
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recently listen you did a talk to me I
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came to you one time and I was like that
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sounds great you don't remember it to
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this day I said you're not it's okay I
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mean my memory is quite bad thank you
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sorry was that the Brit School darling
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so yeah we were sort of like you know we
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were in the sort of same area we weren't
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like this like how we are she was in the
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cool strands right and I was in the loud
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strand I was in the musical theater but
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I used to be a musician don't forget I
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was one of you yeah I was with the loud
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peeps yeah but yeah I think since
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college and just like being at the same
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gigs and festivals and stuff we've got a
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lot in common you know so it was nice to
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have a homie yeah
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I'm so tired
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it was good energy perfect I think
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that's kind of all I wanted to cover
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thank you for having me thank you for
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having me on camera you are absolutely
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gorgeous thank you you're both beautiful
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beautiful don't you get started on us
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you look good thank you you've done it
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well you made me cry earlier
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thank you girls and thanks for chatting
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to us thank you have an amazing Festival
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thanks Queen
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we're off all my knees
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