Hollie McNish's Charlotte Church factfile

Ahead of Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon headlining this month's Neu! Reekie! Celts night at the National Museum of Scotland, poet Hollie McNish caught up with Church to talk trolls, politics, fingering and much much more.

The extended interview features in our September issue, which hits the streets on Monday, but in the meantime here are Hollie's top five Charlotte Church facts, as observed at their meeting.

1. She deals extremely politely with sleazy men who very often stand and stare at her tits and talk about their equity or estate management, seemingly forgetting that she is an independent, self managed business woman and mother who needs neither house nor drink bought for her by overpaid chimps in labelled tweed.

2. Everyone who realises who she is wants a hug – and she gives them all a hug.

3. She has, in my opinion, one of the most perfect personal ideas of balancing fervour and fun: the desire to stand up for what you passionately and politically believe in – for her an anti-austerity, leftist, pro-Corbyn arena of play – with the need to address how tiring and draining this can be; hence the formation of her pop dungeon; a six- (then eight-, now ten-) piece band dedicating itself to everyone’s need to ‘fucking’ dance’; glittered leotards, backing singers, Bowie to Beyoncé to Super Furry dedicated cherry-picked covers. Read about it. Go to the gigs.

4. She is extremely passionate about all of her family.

5. She has very very soft skin, and likes white wine more than gin.

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Read our full interview between Hollie McNish and Charlotte Church in the September issue of The Skinny and The Skinny North and on theskinny.co.uk from 5 Sep.
Charlotte Church headlines Neu! Reekie! Celts at the National Museum of Scotland alongside Ette, Lyre, Lomond Campbell and more on 23 Sep – full line-up details here.