Of course, the second-album-scaries are one thing, but you’d expect that scoring a Mercury Prize and a BRIT Award, as well as two Grammy nominations, in the wake of your debut LP – at a time when you’ve barely entered your 20s – would increase the follow-up pressure exponentially. Less than a year later, Arlo, who’s now based in Los Angeles, has continued to build on that success, with the release of her new album, My Soft Machine. But you don’t really even have time to think. That’s why they’ve brought you on to share the stage with them. You end up just having to trust in yourself, and your abilities – and the fact that the people around you love your work and trust you. “So it was a pretty intense four days,” she laughs. “Then the next day was with Billie Eilish at The O2, and the day after that was with Lorde and Clairo on the Pyramid Stage. “It was the Harry Styles show, and then it was Glastonbury – by myself, and then with Phoebe ,” she recalls. The support slot also kicked off a remarkably busy, and wildly star-studded, four days for Arlo. “That was the first time that I’d been in a stadium, let alone played one.” “It was definitely a huge moment for me,” the now-22-year-old, born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, tells me. The London-raised singer-songwriter – who had been honoured with the highly coveted Mercury Prize for her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, less than a year before – was opening for Harry Styles, at his sold-out Aviva Stadium show in Dublin. Last June, Arlo Parks stepped into a stadium for the first time.
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