Hello,
I'm Laura Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Post Cards where we share a selection of some of our favourite moments from some of our most memorable castaways.
Today's castaway is the singer Adele, who I spoke to in 2022.
She told me about the day she signed her first record deal after a friend uploaded her demo tape online.
The next day, I went in, I'd never heard of Excel at the time,
and my guitarist, well my friend at the time,
Ben, who's now my still my guitarist,
so he used to play guitar when I sang at school and he's still my guitarist today.
I was like, well you come with me, I'm scared, what if it's a weirdo?
And then, so we got on the tube,
from Rickston to like we swapped over and went to Notting Hill Gate,
and we saw the little muse house, you know, because it's not like a big corporate building.
So you can imagine, I wasn't that impressed.
I was like this.
I was like, what is this?
I was like, ugh.
Anyway, and then I got inside in the water.
Oh, it's magical that place.
I haven't been there for years.
Prodigy, like MIA, Dizzy R school, White Stripes.