
Dry Cleaning: "I’ve always enjoyed listening to people talk"
In the restaurant of the Royal Hotel Southend, Florence Shaw is trying to order lunch. “Can I get the gnocchi?” asks the vocalist of Dry Cleaning, tentatively, after the rest of her band has gone for fish and chips all round, but apparently there’s none left. There’s a pause as Shaw, suddenly stressed, scans the menu again. “Ok!” she says eventually, “I’ll get the scampi.”