The new release from Jade Mia Broadhead sees Jade return with a track single ‘Bygones’.  With talk of a new album on the way Damian Robinson caught up with Jade.

Congratulations on your new single, can you tell us a little about how the song was written and when it was recorded?

The song was written back in April of last year and has been in and out of my live sets since then. I recorded it with the rest of my album with the wonderful Harbourmaster in South Shields between September 2024 and May 2025.

Bygones has quiet a strong narrative infused by 90’s pop references, why did you chose that decade and those references?

Ageing myself here but that’s because that was an era I lived through. It’s when I started going to gigs and absorbing the pop culture around me. I’m a huge fan of the Spice Girls and I saw them at Wembley in 1998 and on their reunion tour where I fulfilled a lifetime ambition of dressing as Baby Spice! It was my first time out in public wearing a dress and felt so liberating! Looking back it all seemed so much simpler and people actually bought CDs which I still do today. Everything can look easier and better when looking back. That doesn’t mean to say that it was and there’s danger of not living in the present if you dwell too much on the past.

I’ll never fall in love again showcases a different side to your songwriting, can you tell us about your writing process and where the ideas come from?

I never sit down to write a song, it would feel too forced. I just let them come to me naturally. Sometimes I don’t even know what they’re about until I sit down and figure it out! Like I can see a lot of gender dysphoria in the songs I wrote as a kid but I didn’t understand that until much later in life. One thing that’s changed the last few years is that I used to write lyrics and put guitar to them later. Now I write both together and there’s been a definite improvement in my songwriting.

All three songs on the single are very intimate and personal, as an artist do you find songwriting comes easily or is it a challenge to be open on a recording?

Since coming out as trans & queer I’ve found that aspect much easier. I liked my songs pre-transition but there was something missing that I couldn’t put my finger on and it was because I was holding a big part of myself back. Now I have a lifetime of experience to write about so my creativity has gone into overdrive.

You’re an artist that talks about the future – In terms of the rest of the 2025, what’s next, what do you hope to achieve, and where can we catch you?

Well the album’s set for an October release so there’ll be another single before then and I’ve an album release show set for 3rd October at the Globe in Newcastle. And to be honest I already want to get cracking on the next one! My band Dinky Bossetti is back from a little hiatus with a show at Trillians on 3rd August and if all goes to plan, I’ll be putting on the second Transtock festival in November.

‘Bygones’ is out now.