
Roisin Beck Taylor
Maker/SewistNorthern English lass, sewing in her attic. I work in climate change policy by day and by night I can be found cutting out patterns and stitching up garments. I’m also a freelance florist, so I like my clothes to be as bold as the flowers we grow, but utilitarian in style so that I can fill my pockets with secateurs and twine. Whilst I love the idea of dresses, I am at the heart of it – an androgynous trousers and boxy shapes kinda gal. I love cord, bull denim, linen, and tana lawn, each has their own purpose and I love working out exactly what that is.
What influence does music have in your life as a creative?:
I didn’t know how intertwined music and memory were until I found myself crying in a field, taken by surprise when a song shown to me an ex-partner bled through my headphones. It felt as though I no longer had ownership over that music and it set me back in recovery from that love. And then there are those songs that someone else puts on while cooking you dinner, maybe in the flourishing new moments of a relationship, and unbeknownst to them it was a song from your childhood that your Dad and you used to blast in the car, and you can’t speak with being taken aback by how connected to that person you suddenly feel.
I listen to music when I’m sewing and it often goes unnoticed to me – just background sound to help me concentrate. But there are certain songs that permeate all levels of my concentration and leave me elated or often a little bruised. I love both in equal measure. I find it can control my emotional temperature, cure a bad mood or embed one permanently. I tend to make playlists that look as though they are curated around a season or a month, but they never have anything to do with that. One playlist is deliberately intended to make me feel sad, whilst another blurs the edges a little and softens my day. Often that runs parallel to the type of creative activity I am doing. They are one and the same.
Mostly my music is a mix of joy filled pop, nostalgic throw backs to summer weekends at music festivals, and things that make me think of my partner and friends and family. There is minimal consistency and that is the way I like it.
- Opal – Four Tet Remix – Bicep, Four Tet
- Lush – Four Tet
- Bamboo – Elder Island
- Mojo – Claire Laffut
- Crush – Tessa Violet
- Oom Sha La La – Haley Heynderickx
- Sensitive Heart – Yoke Lore, Jax Anderson
- Cream – Claptone
- God Only Knows – High Contrast
- Nue – Clara Luciani
- Mixer – Amber Mark
- Slip Away – Perfume Genius
- Psycho Killer – 2005 Remaster – Talking Heads
- Isabella – Isaac Delusion
- Keep on Calling – Nilüfer Yanya
- Moon – Kid Francescoli
- Glasshouses – Maribou State
- Watermelon Sugar – Harry Styles
- Blurred – Bonobo Remix – Kiasmos, Bonobo
- Knock Me Off My Feet – SOAK
- Energy – Sampa the Great, Nadeem Din-Gabisi
- Can’t Stop Your Lovin’ – Poolside, Panama
- Full Circle – George FitzGerald, Boxed In
- Disco Yes – Tom Misch, Poppy Ajudha
- Shotgun – George Ezra
- Final Form – Sampa the Great
- Can We Work It Out – RAC Mix – Gordi, RAC
- Nervous Tics (feat. Holly Walker) – Maribou State, Holly Walker
- When I’m With Him – Empress Of
- Levitating – Dua Lipa
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) – 2005 Remaster – Talking Heads
- Every Other Freckle – alt-J
- Taste – Betty Who
- Toothpaste Kisses – The Maccabees
- bellyache – Billie Eilish
- Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
- Friday I’m In Love – The Cure
- Love My Way – The Psychedelic Furs
- Happy Man – Jungle
- Blue Boss – Sampa the Great
- Two Thousand and Seventeen – Four Tet