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Hey Sophie! How have the past few months been since you found out you were going on tour?

They have actually been incredible, I’m so lucky to be able to tour with my best friends and perform to everyone! It’s been a life changing experience i can’t wait for it to carry on and what the future holds for me and my music career!

So you’ve been on tour with Ke$ha – how has that been?

It’s been amazing! Touring with her is fabulous and being able to see my best friends every day, is so cool for me. I’m really enjoying it. The tour bus is a little crazy but i won’t reveal too much – nah everyone pretty tired to be honest, and they need to sleep. We have a few shenanigans but mostly it’s sleeping because travelling and performing is abit tiring, really.

Has Ke$ha given you any tips for lasting on tour?

Yeah, she’s been a sister to me! She talks alot more than normal people! Ha-ha! Her main advice is ‘be sensible. Don’t scream and shout all the time – you need to look after your voice’ and she told me the story of how if you want to do something on tour do it and don’t regret it, so if i wanted to sing along with the crowd then i should sing along with the crowd! Don’t spend all your life daydreaming make it reality because you will always be better off staying true to what you believe.

‘’she talks alot more than normal people’’

Have you been naughty?

We’ve been doing a lot of running up and down the hotel corridors but there’s been no shouting!

This is your first tour – has Ke$ha been supportive?

Yeah, I’ve been accepted pretty well. I like to attract new fans who don’t know I’m about, and hopefully they like what i do. I’m doing two of my own songs now, which is crazy. It’s very exciting for me. Ones called Working Man and the second ones called Where Ever You Are, which i wrote with the boys from 5 Seconds of summer.

What were the boys like?

Lovely – they were always giving me advice and I’ve got friendly with all of them too – they said just to have fun and do your thing. We have planned to write more things in the future.

How are you getting along with all tour acts like Before You Exit, Etham Basden and Elyar Fox?

They are all really cool and we all get along well, its weird being the only female act but they are all like my brothers.

Who are the tour jokers?

Etham and Elyar! They like to pull pranks on people and see how long they can go without getting court – they don’t do it very well!

Who takes the longest in the shower?

I would probably say that it’s Toby McDonough (in before you exit) he makes a mess and water goes everywhere, but i suppose that what you get for him being the youngest of us all. He did get better for abit but then he got worse everyone just said ‘he was having a good day’.

What do you all argue about the most?

I wouldn’t say we really argue and if we do it’s about not wanting to get out of bed in the morning! Or about who gets to have a shower first.

Have the other acts changed because of growing in fame?

No, i think they will always be down to earth guys!

‘’they will always be down to earth guys’’

If you weren't a singer what would you be doing now?

If I wasn't a singer I would be probably playing cricket, nah I’m just kidding, a fire-fighter

Are you planning on releasing a male perfume?

A male perfume wow, I probably should, I probably should, yeah definitely! I’ll just put abit of my sweat in there; every bottle has some of my sweat in it

Who’s been your favourite ever act to see live?

For me there’s a top three who really nailed it – Bastille, Imagine Dragons and Ed Sheeran.  They are all amazing because they put on a proper show aswell as singing, which is great because that’s where i want to get to. I want to have a full show, not just to sing.

So who would you most like to duet with?

It depends on the song that we performed. 5 seconds of summer would be amazing because we both enjoy the same taste in music. But my ideal would be to do a cool song with One Direction they are amazing, beautiful and wonderful.

So what’s happening after the tour?

After the tour I’m going to America and maybe Australia. When you have good songs you can never stop writing you never know when i song is going to materialise – it could happen at any time. Then i want to realise my own music. This is my first proper tour, so now I’m dreaming of doing my own tour – that’s where i want to go.