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She expands: \u201cPeople think it\u2019s glamorous, that you\u2019re just singing for a few hours a night and don\u2019t have to work the rest of the time. They forget what goes into it. First of all, I have to know songs from the \u201960s right up to the charts of today, and people underestimate what a massive cross section of music that is in a two, three hour show. And then there\u2019s the crap that comes with dealing with drunk people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using a recent gig as an example of what a tough evening’s work can look like, Winter describes facing eerie \u201cstandoffishness\u201d from the moment she entered with her equipment, \u201dterritorial\u201d groups unhappy with her presence. \u201cThey didn\u2019t like the fact that I was a woman about to sing in their pub,\u201d she concludes. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s no other reason.\u201d Afterwards, Winter would change into her gig outfit in a small, urine soaked cubicle before navigating the aggressive advances of locals who were annoyed she wasn\u2019t taking requests. \u201dI\u2019m not a jukebox,\u201d she informed them with a smile. <\/p>\n

In over 20 years of experience, which has taken her from the depths of Bristol to British bars in Tenerife and Cyprus<\/a>, Winter \u2013 a sturdy personality with a stratospheric voice \u2013 has been through the mill of these experiences. \u201cYou see everything,\u201d she explains. \u201cYou\u2019ve sung most of these songs a million times, so often you\u2019re in your own world, just watching or even hearing what\u2019s going on. You see all sorts \u2013 couples arguing, police coming in whilst I\u2019m on stage \u2013 but you just soldier on. I\u2019ll walk into any pub and it won\u2019t phase me \u2013 you\u2019ve got to have thick skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the difficulties, accentuated by the female experience of being in majority male pubs, pub singing remains the circuit where Winter finds her freedom. \u201cI could never go back to sitting in an office, earning someone else\u2019s living. When you strip it back; this is my company, it\u2019s what I\u2019ve worked on my whole life. I\u2019m 40 years old with two kids, but I know on a gig night that I can put my make-up on, put on something nice, and go have some fun. And when stuff is going wrong, I know it’s not me, my voice doesn\u2019t suddenly go bad, it\u2019s the people that change.\u201d <\/p>\n

As her set at The George begins, her performance follows a familiar pattern. Winter\u2019s mighty vocals fill the room immediately, but they contrast with the long empty space in front of her. The George is a large pub shaped like a horseshoe, and the majority of its clientele spend the first quarter of her set buzzing in the opposite branch. Singers, Winter says, expect this, ordinarily using the first chunk of their set to trial lesser known songs or play tracks that challenge them. Eventually, pubs tend to drop their guard. That\u2019s when the classics come out. True to the process, by the end of her gig, the crowd is at Winter\u2019s command; the patterned carpet in front of her host to a full mixture of movement which ranges from abstract takes on breaking to gracefully drunken ballroom dance. A success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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