Julianna Barwick in conversation with TONY CLAYTON-LEA

What's on your rider?Water, coffee, hot tea, and fruit.

What would be on your fantasy rider?Five different types of cheeses, baguette, ice cream, diet coke, pineapple, Muga wine.

What's your pre-gig ritual/routine?I don't really have one. After soundcheck I usually just relax.

How do you get to the gig – limo, taxi, walking?It depends on where it is.

What's the best gig you've been to, and why?Joanna Newsom at BAM in Brooklyn, February 2008. She played with a band and the Brooklyn philharmonic. It was mind-blowing.

And the worst?It was a woman singer who will remain nameless. It was January, freezing, and we had to stay outside for ages waiting for her to soundcheck. In the show, it was like she was trying out a comedy routine than playing music.

What are your favourite and least favourite venues?Favourite are Bowery in NYC, and ZDB in Lisbon. I don't really have any least favourite ones.

Who is the most famous person to have shown up at one of your gigs?It was rumoured that Björk was at a show I did the other night.

What's your crowd-pleasing number?People have responded well to Prizewinning.

What's the most you've ever paid for a gig ticket?Nearly 100 bucks to see Björk play at Radio City Music Hall in 2001.

Do you like to meet and greet fans after the gig?Sure!

Chatting between songs – good or bad?I can't pull it off.

Any useful stage tips?I usually kind of look off to the side and that helps me stay in my own world, music-wise.

Have you a stage wardrobe?Not really, it's just usually what I'm wearing that day.

How many roadies does it take to change your lightbulbs?I almost always travel alone.

Groupies – would you?Um. No.

What's your best tour story?Going to London and Lisbon in 2007, and playing some great shows and meeting people that are friends for life. It was kind of the beginning of everything.

Juliana Barwick plays the Unitarian Church, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, tonight