Shona Laing - Give It A Whirl Interview

America, the nation, has played a huge part in my life ... from a family perspective, because my father was travelling there from a very early time ... So America figured subconsciously for me hugely...

– Shona Laing on the influence of the United States on her music (19 minutes into this interview)

... I was desperately infatuated with Henry Fonda, and that's the 1905: he was born in 1905. So it's just a song about how silly it was to be infatuated with a Hollywood star who was 50 years my senior. Simple as that.

– Shona Laing explains the origins of song '1905' (5 minutes into this interview)