Watch out world,
SPIDER's coming through.
Words:
Abigail Firth.
Photos:
Em Marcovecchio.
When Spider started releasing music, she was thankful that the pandemic had halted live performances. She was terrified of performing and had managed to dodge it for as long as possible. So as festival season kicks in and the hype around Spider grows, the last few weeks have been a bit of a learning curve for her.
Her nervousness comes as a bit of a surprise, considering how brutally honest and often brash her music is, you'd think it was built for stages, but that's not the case. When we meet the morning after her Great Escape show, she's the opposite of shy in person too.
"I was told to keep my expectations like really low," she says of the performance, "then they opened the curtains, and people started coming in. I was like, what the fuck, why are there people here?"
Now stepping into her live groove, she's perfectly comfortable being herself on stage.
"It was all about self-expression and not being afraid to be authentically yourself"