{"id":163639,"date":"2025-09-23T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:13:12","slug":"excited-to-meet-the-students-and-share-my-experience-synth-pop-star-little-boots-confirms-that-shes-now-a-university-lecturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163639\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExcited to meet the students and share my experience\u201d: Synth-pop star Little Boots confirms that she\u2019s now a university lecturer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic pop star Little Boots – AKA Victoria Mason – has confirmed that she has a new day job: lecturing on the Commercial Music course at Bath Spa University in the south west of England.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew era! Welcome Week at Bath Spa where I am joining as a lecturer in Commercial Music,\u201d she wrote on Instagram. \u201cExcited to meet the students and share my experience and I\u2019m sure they will teach me a thing or two also!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mason (formerly Hesketh)\/Boots first rose to prominence in the late \u201800s, when her synth-heavy releases led to her topping the BBC Sound of 2009 poll<\/a> and being nominated for the Critics\u2019 Choice Brit Award in the same year. Hands, her debut album, went Top 5 in the UK, and she\u2019s continued to write and release music ever since.<\/p>\n

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In 2021, Mason revealed that she was set to play keyboards and sing backing vocals in the groundbreaking ABBA Voyage show<\/a>. \u201cI have been a lifelong Abba fan so it is an absolute honour,\u201d she said of her new gig.<\/p>\n

Although Mason sounds like the perfect fit to teach the Commercial Music course<\/a> – it\u2019s aimed at \u201csongwriters, producers and session players who want to turn their passion into a career\u201d – fans can rest assured that she\u2019s not giving up what was previously the 9 to 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cFear not: this is not the end of my making my own music,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIn fact I\u2019m pretty certain being around such inspiring people and surroundings will have the opposite effect and I will potentially actually get some new music finished.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s Yesterdays, the most recent Little Boots album, was released in 2022. Speaking to MusicRadar at the time<\/a>, Mason revealed why she turned to crowdfunding to get the record made.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was a little sceptical at the start, but obviously when Covid hit, all of my gigs were cancelled overnight and I was wondering what on earth I was going to do,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully, the realisation that musicians were going to be screwed for quite some time seemed to resonate with a lot of people. I\u2019d done a Kickstarter the year before and people had been saying I should give Patreon a go, so I gave it a whirl and got an amazing response. Luckily, the one thing that\u2019s kept me going through the last decade or so is that I\u2019ve got a really loyal core fan base to support me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although she suggests that she\u2019s struggling to get new music finished, Mason did recently release a single, the Kylie-esque Spin Back. This is a collaboration with Lord Leopard.<\/p>\n

Lord Leopard & Little Boots – Spin Back – YouTube
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