Neither do you have a fallow period because you have to spend time getting the hang of being a wife. Fair enough, a newborn baby might set your studio time back a bit but you certainly can’t call the seismic change parenthood brings a “fallow period”. Ideas are always percolating in the minds of creative people. You don’t really have a “fallow period” in the way you might think. I remember as a teen in the 1980s hearing a young woman asked by the dentist’s receptionist, “do you have children?” and the woman replied, “No, I’m not married yet.” Even then I thought the acceptance that the two must go together sounded utterly dinosaur.īeing an artist is very different to being a quantity surveyor or a lumberjack. “Marriage and motherhood” in the UK in 2021, do not to me. These days, some words still go inextricably together: “cheese and onion”, “fish and chips” and “Ant and Dec” are just a few examples. The line which revealed his extraordinary powers was that Goulding was “emerging from a fallow period of marriage and motherhood”.
This week, a review of an Ellie Goulding concert appeared to reveal the reviewer to be living in the 1950s and using some time-bending sorcery to channel a review of a singer/songwriter some 70 years in the future. Reviewers sometimes unwittingly reveal more about themselves than what they have watched. The best advice given early on in my career, was from my father: “If you get a bad review, ignore it, and if you get a good review. If it’s a bad one, and you are consoled by friends with “it’s just one person’s opinion”, surely that rule must also apply when you have a glowing one?Ĭriticism I value does not come from reviewers. If you are any kind of performer, reading reviews, any reviews is bad for you. ‘In my 20 years in the business, I’ve never heard an agent express concerns that a male stand-up might not be able to make the commitment needed to this consuming career because of his parental status’ (iStock/Getty Images)
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