When Clementine guested on Gorillaz’s Hallelujah Money in January this year, the full extent of his musical oddness stretched out.
He was picked on for it – of course he was – but says, “I felt like it was my clothes that I was the one who looked different, with everyone wearing jeans.” (“That’s helped my style a little bit, as well.”) On non-uniform days at school, he would wear his uniform. Instead, his father would buy cheap suits at a local charity shop for the boys. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.”įever pitch: Clementine performing at the Edinburgh International Festival in August. I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors – because he didn’t want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies.
I appreciate it in some ways, because I’ve been protected from certain things I might otherwise have done. “Believe you me,” he says, in his strangely old-fashioned way, “it’s still possible. It is hard to imagine any parents could hope to protect five children from popular culture in 21st century London. “No one put a gun to your head,” he says of his churchgoing, “but it was pretty much an everyday occurrence.” The church they attended was 20 seconds away from the family home the priest lived next door. He may have worked with Damon Albarn this year, but he wouldn’t have heard Parklife growing up in a strict Catholic household, where his Ghanaian parents banned their children from listening to popular music, wary of its “corrupting” influence. It’s perhaps not the Paris years which contain the key to who and how he is, but the murkier waters of a suburban religious childhood. These days he treats his colourful biography with a certain embarrassment. They compared his tumbling musical poetry to that of Antony Hegarty and Nina Simone. He got spotted, then signed, and arrived fully formed upon the world with a sound unlike anyone else. He lived in a hostel, 10 people to one room, hiding his keyboard under the bottom bunk. He slept rough on the streets of London and Paris he busked on the metro. I thought about all sorts of ways to stop people fooling me. When he left home at 17, he shot up now he’s six foot four, and in the local shop where he used to buy his bus pass, he loomed above the freezer cabinets. Literally: all through school, he was one of the smallest. Once you’re ready, hit “OK” and your music files will be copied into your music library named exactly how you want them to be named and organized how you want them to be organized.After Clementine won the Mercury Prize in 2015 for his debut album At Least for Now, he came back to live in Edmonton, north London, where he was born, but quickly decided there was something pretentious about trying to be the prodigal son, when everything had changed and he’d grown so big. You also have a bunch of other options, like deleting the files after they are copied, changing the naming conventions, etc. You also have the option of changing the destination (which doesn’t make much sense since you want the music in your primary music folder).
In the window that comes up next, you’ll have the option to change how the files are organized, both at the folder level and with the renaming of files. In the context menu that comes up, click on “Copy to library.” I usually put the music I want to add to my collection on my desktop, so I navigate there, find the folder, and then right-click on it. Next, to add music to your folder, go to the left side of Clementine and look for where it says “Files”:Ĭlick on that and you’ll be able to browse to any folder on your computer. In the window that opens, click on “Music Library” and then add the folder where you want to store your music: You’ll then need to set your music directory in Clementine which is where you want to store your music files.
Clementine music app install#
So, I figured I’d outline the process below.įirst, you obviously need to install Clementine. It’s just not the most intuitive process. Clementine does have the ability to add songs to your music library and organize them (into folders and renaming the files). The one issue I had with it over the years is that I didn’t think I could use it to add music to my music library and organize it at the same time. I’ve grown to really like the basic interface of Clementine and it does a good job with pretty much everything I need. From Amarok to Banshee to Rhythmbox and at least a few more. In the almost 15 years I’ve been using Linux I have gone through a number of music playing apps.
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