Dandelion I started writing for Dandelion in 2007 when I was pregnant with my son Louie. The first song I wrote was “Pretty Young Things”. It was loosely based on the time we spent recording as a band (Waking the Witch) at Beaumont Street in Huddersfield. There were a lot of prostitutes working in that area, beautiful tall girls but some didn’t have any teeth. It really made me think, god how would I feel if that was my beautiful girl out there? The next song that came along shortly after that was “Leeds Lullaby”. This was written in a blissful moment laying in bed and thinking about my baby. Who it would look like? Is it a boy or a girl? Would it hear the rush hour every morning and think it was a waterfall like I did? I did, seriously when I first moved to that house I was convinced there must be a waterfall nearby. One that you could only hear in the mornings and late afternoon. I wasn’t living in the city centre or anything, It was in a very beautiful part of Pudsey, down a farm track. It was total heaven and you’d never know how close you were to both Leeds and Bradford, if it weren’t for the traffic noise at rush hour. After that there were quite a few songs that happened, “I Saw the Sun Today” was very much based on Pudsey. I loved Pudsey so don’t get me wrong but blimey there was a lot of dog poo. One day I was walking home from the shops and the sun was shining down for the first time after a really long and mucky winter. Every thing suddenly looked so beautifu