There was a time, quite recently, in which she was playing DIY indie house shows with other local bands. She hasn’t always been this big, though, and not all of her performances have been like the WGBH show. “I tend to panic when answering questions,” she said, “which makes every interview I do a really wild ride, and I can tell that by reading them all.” And after about 30 minutes, her hair tie broke. Within 5 minutes, I had lost track of the number of times she glanced at it. She would go from looking at her phone (her roommate was texting her about who she should be for Halloween) to staring at mine as it recorded our conversation. As she semi-coherently moved from anecdote to anecdote, she fidgeted in her seat and played with her hair tie. Yet while she has started to get attention from music media outlets like Billboard, Pitchfork, and The Fader, it was quite apparent that she isn’t quite comfortable with interviews at this point in her career. She’s like, “What?” We weren’t making those charts in our first week, but if I had written it out I would have essentially been scouting myself. “We do A&R research by reporting on charts like that, and my boss came up to me. “The first week of my job, was on New Music Friday,” Gish said in an interview with Billboard. It was just before this co-op that No Dogs Allowed was released. While with Island this past semester, she worked in the Artists and Repertoire, or A&R, department whose main job is to scout for, sign, and groom new talent.
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Northeastern requires their students to work co-ops, or semester-long internships, during their time at school, and Gish has spent hers at professional music labels. A music business major, she spends her scholastic life learning about the music industry from the perspective of the industry. She’s a fourth year at Northeastern with another year and a half of school left. That day, however, she just had a few hours off of class. This culminated with a six-show stint opening for Mitski, one of today’s preeminent indie rock artists. While her classmates spent their summers working normal college jobs, she split time interning in the Artists and Repertoire Department at Island Records and playing shows around the country. She is currently nominated for four Boston Music Awards including Album of the Year and Song of the Year. In the year after her WGBH performance, she has accrued upwards of 77,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and her most recent album, No Dogs Allowed, received a 7.7 review from Pitchfork (for context, Ed Sheeran’s latest album garnered a 2.8). She looked like any normal college student, and since we were meeting near a few colleges, I thought that she might have been just that.īut Gish isn’t a normal college student. When she walked in, it took me a second to realize that she was in fact who I was supposed to be meeting. She had the afternoon off from class, which she spent recording a new song, and after our meeting, she had to run to Stop and Shop to pick up groceries. Nearly a year after that performance, Gish and I met in a JP Licks near Northeastern University in Boston. Whether or not she feels comfortable with all these people watching, she is good. She gets louder as the lyrics get angrier her voice quivers when they’re more self-conscious. Her guitar playing is messy yet pure, emotional yet measured. Without a band, she uses a looping pedal to layer her guitar playing, so no song sounds the same as it does on record. She seems to settle in after her third song her confidence rises after she belts a song about her insecurities and worries for the future. The crowd doesn’t seem to notice, though, as they sit without chairs on the floor listening intently. When she talks, she wavers ever so slightly, and every now and then she breathes into the microphone.
Her voice breaks throughout the performance, and her singing isn’t as clear as it is on her recordings. Sometimes standing for a long time can be exhausting, so that’s why I say this.” The crowd laughs, and she begins. “Good to see you’re all sitting down, and having a good time. As she tunes the guitar, she engages in a little crowd banter. WGBH, a Boston radio station, is recording the performance, as they will post it on their YouTube channel afterwards. The lights are trained on her as she walks out. She’s wearing a plain red t-shirt as she stands in front of a large room of people. She holds an olive green Fender Stratocaster, the instrument’s white pickguard adorned with a few stickers just below the strings and a rainbow just above the ¼ inch cable plug.
Behind her are a piano, music stands, and a few chairs.
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