{"id":33807,"date":"2018-03-12T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=33807"},"modified":"2018-03-12T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:46:35","slug":"liv-austen-at-c2c-festival-10th-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/03\/liv-austen-at-c2c-festival-10th-march-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Liv Austen At C2C Festival 10th March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liv Austen was born just outside Oslo in Norway and originally decided to come to the UK to study at the Guildford School of Acting after her drama teacher told her that the best schools were in the UK. She attended the school for three years but all the time there was a fire burning.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Liv had played piano since she was eight and had shyly sat at the back of the church choir, not wanting to put herself forward but loving her music. After a teenage spell in Belgium where she took singing lessons with a teacher that would tell her how good she was, she remained firmly in her shell until her parents encouraged her to perform in a school music night. She covered Norah Jones and despite huge nerves, finished and felt the euphoric elation that she had \u201csurvived\u201d something but that, whatever it was, it had made her stronger. The musical seed had taken root.<\/div>\n
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Liv listened to country radio and admired the honest story telling quality it had, the way that humour could be lyrically involved in songs of hardship and tragedy. Three chords and the truth had taken hold.<\/div>\n
So as she finished and graduated from drama school, music would become her escape, her way of dealing with the day and night drama training. She would sit and write songs as a release not realising that moment by moment, chord by chord, music was claiming her creative soul.<\/div>\n