Sister Bliss (aka Ayalah Bentovim) of global dance superstars Faithless chatted to Skrufff recently to promote her new compilation �?Nightmoves’ and revealed that despite her enormous success she remains firmly grounded. “It might look like I’m confident to the outside world but I’m constantly thinking �?No, this is shit, we’re not good enough’, absolutely,” she told Skrufff’s Benedetta Ferraro.

“And, you know, there have been periods in the past when I wasn’t working very much. I remember when I was DJing at Café De Paris in the mid 90s and everything was going great then suddenly everything fell apart,” she recalled. “I didn’t really have many gigs in London and that’s really the reason why I started making records, because I didn’t feel any security coming from DJing. I couldn’t survive on £30 every three weeks, I just couldn’t. Then eventually after getting through that really tough period things started taking off.”

“What can I say, extremely hard work did pay off and it was the same with Faithless; we had gigs with literally five people in the audience, thinking this is just diabolical. How are we ever going to get people to come and see us?” said Ayalah. “And remember Faithless were on a very small label with nobody really there to promote us, so all the promotion we did was done the hard way. It took a long, long time for us to have a proper hit, I remember our first record selling five copies a week. Well, they say if it comes too easy it’s not worth having,” she laughed.

She also dismissed England’s thriving celebrity culture centred on reality TV shows and restaurants, declaring �?that’s a lot of nonsense, isn’t it’. “It’s just never interested me. If I go out, I go to the cinema, the theatre or to a club for dancing,” she said. “If I go to a club, I go to hear great music not because I want to fuck a footballer, although some of them have got nice legs! Max gets recognised a bit, but we were never that kind of band. We never sold sex or an image. Our video for �?Insomnia’ came out a year after the record did. We never get that kind of attention. We’re too old! Too old and too ugly!”

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