Singer Alison Moyet has said that she was offered food by a stranger because she looks like a "bag lady".
The star, who is known for her 80s hits Is This Love? and Invisible, has returned to college to study sculpture and says that the confusion happened when travelling from college in London to her home in Brighton.
"I get the late train (back) and no-one recognises me – I look a sight and am as rough as you like. I actually think people avoid me because I look like a bag lady!" Moyet told The Graham Norton Show.
"I was on the train the other night and managed to get a seat – there were two businessmen opposite me and a smart young lady next to me and I was crammed in with all my bags and covered in plaster and clay and as she was leaving she pushed over her leftovers and said, ‘Would you like my food?’"
The 80s singer is most famous for her deep bluesy voice with songs such as All Cried Out.
Her former band member Vince Clarke from her 1981 band Yazoo then formed Erasure, who are supporting Robbie Williams in the Aviva in Dublin this weekend.
The singer has just released her ninth studio album, Other.
The former Yazoo singer, 55, said of studying sculpture: "I knew I would be good with my hands - I am really good at wallpaper hanging and I liked the idea of doing something dexterous."
She released an album The Minutes in 2013 where she returned to her electro roots.
The Minutes, was her most successful album up until now since 1987.
Alison Moyet would have been a constant soundtrack from the early to mid 80s.
Alison Moyet's songs would have featured in the slow sets across Ireland.
She will be playing in Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Saturday, October 27.
