Eve Christina x Darcie Haven: Trusting Instincts and Emotional Honesty.
Australian alt-pop musician Darcie Haven and indie-pop darling Eve Christina sit down over zoom to chat all things songwriting, heartbreak, and trusting your instincts. Eve Christina’s new single ‘So New, so Sure, so Fast’ out now. See Darcie Haven perform at The Grace, London on the 23rd May 2026.
DARCIE: Are you often writing songs in real time as things happen, or more so in retrospect? Do you prefer to write from a wound or from a scar?
EVE: That’s a good question. I do both, I definitely do write in real time a lot…as I’m feeling whatever I’m feeling, that’s when I’m the most in touch. I’m pretty emotionally aware, so in the moment I know what I’m feeling, I know how to express it. Sometimes people find it hard to tap into that whilst it’s still happening, and maybe it takes a little while to get there. But I love writing about it in the moment, I think I find my best stuff when it’s as raw as possible. But I am guilty of going back and writing about scars too, just rewriting and rewriting the same stuff. What about you?
DARCIE: I actually think I'm the opposite perhaps. I think I write my best stuff when I’ve had enough distance from it, and I can maybe see it from more of a bird’s eye view. I will always write while things are happening too as a coping mechanism but I think some of my best songs that I’ve written really outside of a time. Looking back on something, I see something different in it than I would have otherwise seen. I can write more detailed, not as emotionally, it’s more analytical perhaps. I like being analytical in my songs, but I think definitely both as well.
EVE: What colour is this era of music for you? What does it feel like?
DARCIE: I think that if I were able to transcribe the sound of this new era of music that I'm making it would be metallic silver. The stuff that I'm wearing on stage, the outfits I'm drawn to right now for shows and shoots are metallics and silvers, blacks and greys. My favourite colour is green, I'll always be a green girlie, but I'm feeling this era in particular is silver. What about you?
EVE: I think in my music, specifically it would be a dark rich brown. I feel like a lot of the music is raw and rustic. I wrote a lot of the songs whilst staying in a cabin for my birthday, which was so much fun. I wrote a load of songs…that are on my next project [staying] in this cabin. So it’s a lot of [natural], raw, real, stripped back stuff.
EVE: What is one thing that you want to be better at?
DARCIE: I want to be better at trusting my instincts. I’m a chronic overthinker and I always end up circling back to my initial knee-jerk reaction to something anyway. When writing songs, I'll often be really critical of a lyric and try to edit it, try to change it, but if that was my first instinct to write it that way then should I follow that. Trust my intuition more and trust that my subconscious knows what I want to create and knows [what] feels authentic to me. It’s hard though.
DARCIE: Do you find yourself writing about love more than anything else?
EVE: My last EP is very much about growing up and myself, it’s quite introspective…but I do write about relationships a lot now, that’s where I'm feeling the most. It feels easy for me to do that, in a way. It's hard to write happy songs. I don't actually write that many love songs, a lot of them are more just about heartbreak.
DARCIE: I’ve loved writing about my own anxieties, about myself and about the world. I feel like any song that I’ve written where I just sat down and looked at a mirror, looked at myself, and unpacked my own thoughts, they have been the more healing songs. Those songs will always make me fall in love with writing. Your relationship with yourself is the most important thing always, it’s the longest relationship you’ll ever have. I love making sure that at each stage in my life I have songs that deeply unpack where I'm at, in that point in time.