I liked a lot of Motown stuff as a teenager. I was born in 1971, so show me somebody of my age who wasnвЂ™t in to ABBA. I listened to The Beatles quite a lot, because that, again, is music that you can play, you can reproduce. I havenвЂ™t got a power ballad voice, so the whole вЂWhitneyвЂ™ thing was off the radar for me and anything like that. And I really liked stuff that I could play and stuff that I could sing along with. IвЂ™d always picked up any musical instrument I could and played it.

I did a few things that I probably shouldnвЂ™t have done but I didnвЂ™t take that many risks.Д®IO40: And what about music as a teenager? What were you in to?ДЄnne Mari: IвЂ™ve played the guitar from when I was really young, I think I was seven when I started playing that. He said, вЂњYouвЂ™re far too artistic to do an engineering degree.вЂќ So I thought, вЂњOkay, IвЂ™ll do something else.вЂќ I did politics and IвЂ™ve never used it since.ДЄnne Mari: I was a really good girl. And I will blame my sisterвЂ™s friend for this, who I quite fancied at the time, a very arty man. I thought I was going to change the world whereas I should have really gone into engineering. I lived there from 3 to about 20.В Manchester was quite a big part of my life as a child and I eventually went to university in Manchester.ДЄnne Mari: Politics. And of course, thank you to Anne Mari for taking the time to talk candidly to EIO40.Д®IO40: Tell us a little bit about your early lifeДЄnne Mari: I grew up in South Manchester, between Stockport and Macclesfield, a little place called Poynton, which liked to think it was a village, even though it was way too big to be a village. So thank you to Rob Morgan, Esther, Paul PowerвЂ™s Tache, Steven M, Richard Weir, Simon White and Michael Bairstow on Twitter for providing some ofВ theВ questions for Anne Mari. WeВ didnвЂ™t want to lose any ofВ Anne MariвЂ™s personality during the translation process and hopefully her character shines through here as much as it did it person. We should point out that the interview is prettyВ much unedited. There is alsoВ an insight into her early musical life, her influences and what she got up to after The Field Mice. How she came to join the band, her battles with mental illness and stage fright, her relationship with Bobby Wratten and вЂњthoseвЂ™ songs as well as the final days of the band, from her own very personal perspective. ItвЂ™s a open and honest account of her time in The Field Mice. this is all about Anne Mari and you should be left to just dive in read what she has to say, without being held up by some superfluous preamble.

This interview is what he came back with.

We sent Steve from EIO40 down to her home on the south coast.We asked a select number of EIO40 community members to provide questions for Anne Mari to answer.She said she would answer any questions honestly unless she couldnвЂ™t remember the answer (and she was true to her word).We asked Anne Mari Davies if we could interview her.Even if you are aware of her work, you are going to get to know her a whole lot better. If you donвЂ™t know who Anne Mari Daviesis or her contribution to music then thatвЂ™s about to change. We are going to dispense with any sort of lengthy introduction here.

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