REVERIEME singer Louise Connell has joked she hopes to keep making music to pay for her subscription to an online dating service.

The Airdrie-born starlet has just released her new EP Straw Woman, and despite having a strong career since she launched onto the scene in 2005 at just 16, her ultimate ambition is to make a living from her music.

She joked, “I’d love to write and make music for a living.

“I just need enough money to afford food, heating and my Match subscription.”

For now, however, the chatty singer is content with promoting her latest release Straw Woman, which was out in the summer, and being an English teacher.

The bubbly songstress quirked: “ I’m an English teacher by day (and by night, and by the weekends, and by every waking and sleeping moment if you catch me at certain times of the year).

She added: “As you’d imagine, some of the songs on the album were written quite a while ago.

“They were like loyalty card points, accumulating over time until I had enough, except loyalty card points are actually useful.

“In terms of its production and release, I’d say the album took somewhere between the timescale of a Fifty Shades of Grey sequel and the Sagrada Familia to complete (I reckon it’s also somewhere between the two on a scale of quality).

“It’s called Straw Woman, and it’s primarily a pop album that jaunts between the bleak and jolly poles as often as it can without causing motion sickness.”

Despite coming up with the goods and producing another album which is attracting rave reviews, Louise jokes that even her own family aren’t impressed with what she has achieved thus far.

She said: “My wee Reverieme team are really pleased at how things are going, but my parents are concerned about how much better Taylor Swift and Beyonce seem to be doing.”

She might not impress her family, but her contemporaries are bound to be inspired by Louise’s ability to play a variety of musical instruments including the banjo and ukulele.

“Playing a variety of instruments tends to make writing much easier, especially when you’re a fairly mediocre musician like me,” she said.

She added: “Why learn every chord on one instrument when you can learn the same two chords on four different instruments? That’s practically eight chords!”

It’s that songwriting ability, however, that helped her pull together Straw Woman which is a reflection of her worries as she explained.

She said: “For me, inspiration isn’t so much of a romantic, whispering-muse and as it is a hoard of inconsolable neurotics screaming about the

futility of life.

“If I can worry about it, I can write about it.

“Sometimes I think that if I didn’t write, the worry would manifest in some other terrible way, like gout or agoraphobia or an interest in sport.”

In terms of her favourite tracks on the album, Louise says it is the ones she recently wrote.

She added: “My favourites are the comparatively newer songs like Everyone Else and When There Was, solely because I haven’t heard or played them as often as the others.

“It’s best I don’t procreate; I fear I’d do the same with children.”

Golem, however, was chosen as the lead single, and even Louise admits she is not sure why.

She said: “I don’t think I have a definitive, representative song, so I tend to avoid making decisions like that if I can.

“As we’ve already established, my taste is based entirely on familiarity, so I’d be a terrible judge of a good single anyway.”

Fans will, however, get to decide their favourite tracks when Louise plays The Glad Café in Glasgow on October 14.

She said: “I’ll be playing at The Glad Café on October 14 which you can either see as a belated album launch or a timely second single launch depending on how familiar you are with my timekeeping skills.

“Regardless, there will be many surprises and treats in store for attendees.

“I won’t divulge my exact plans, but let’s just say I’ve been watching a lot of martial arts films lately.”

In the meantime, however, she will still be living out her existence in her hometown of Airdrie which she admits she will never leave.

She beamed, “I still live in Airdrie; I’ll likely die here.

“Fortunately, the mortality age is fairly low so I don’t have to wait too long.”