Róisín Murphy: ‘Realising I’d become a gay icon felt like home’

The singer, 45, on sobriety, motherhood, not being cool or famous and blagging it at Irish dancingWe were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I’d get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn’t like me either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn’t afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture and my mother is an antiques dealer. One night my father woke me up because he’d come home with a horse. Two days later I asked my mother where it was and she said it had run away. She’d sold it. Continue reading…
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