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WHITE LIES

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FASHIONATION

ONES TO WATCH AT LONDON FASHION WEEK

FIVE UNSIGNED

ROGUES, BLEECH, ANNA CALVI, GOLD TEETH, THE DELANIES

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FEBRUARY/MARCH 09

BAND THREADS

FASHION STYLED IN THE BIG APPLE FEED ME SEYMOUR

on/your/cd ROGUES 1.Not So Pretty (FEED ME Remix) 2.Carnival THE DELANIES 3.Doldrums 4.White City Blues Anna calvi

5.No More Words (Feat. Dave Okumu) 6.I’ll Be Your Man BLEECH 7.Control 8.Livin It Up GOLD TEETH 9.Roll It Over

BONUS TRACKS HYMNS 10.Streets Alone ACTION PAINTERS 11.Supermarket SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS 12.Half Asleep THE DEPRECIATION GUILD 13.Sky Ghosts KRISTIAN MARR 14.So Strange SHA LA LAS

15.Till Love Do Us Part - (I Want To Sha Sha In Your La La) Once again we treat you to a FREE CD. Yes, we’re far too generous considering the…oh enough about that; bang it on the stereo and party like its 1999. Along with our Five Unsigned you’ll hear music from four bands that feature in our New York fashion shoot. A little something from our Brief Encounter with Kristian Marr and a fabulous offering from Sha La Las; the band that spawned our Danish contributor, Lasse Storm. Follow their beaten tracks in Postcard from Copenhagen… CD Sponsorship Enquiries sponsorship@fashionmusicstyle.com All rights of the producer and the owners of the work reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this record prohibited.

MASTHEAD Editor-in-Chief Sarah Hardy Photo Editor Michael Robert Williams Art Editor Elliott Webb Music Editor Andrew Future Style Editor Jodie Ball Editorial Assistant Connie Hart Web Editor Kellie Watton Contributors Lucy Barker, Kate Kearney, Emily Amanda, Eric Guillemain, Yuji Takenaka, Emily Inglis, Lasse Storm, Matthias Kisch, Unni Christiansen, Tania A., Stuart Gadd, Shain Shapiro, Richard Chesterman, Isabel Dexter and Aline Bentley Special thanks to Donal Rogers, James Pears @ The Elbow Room, Katherine Lynott, Sandrine Bizzaro and Rachel Stein @ Michelle Filomeno, Mino Inoue, Tomoya Yagi, Rika Watanabe, Piper Flusser, Jon Gottlieb and all of the above

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Editor’s letter We officially have issues…yes; we’ve gone all plural now we’ve created number two. Very exciting, and I think we’ve done another mighty fine job too. We had the run of The Elbow Room in Shoreditch for two days to shoot our Five Unsigned (many thanks), and err…just an office space to shoot White Lies for our cover. Oh the irony, but then our photo editor has done a fantastic job on both counts…everyone’s a winner! We’ve pulled together style notes for two

different looks in our shopping pages and Jodie Ball has reported on the ones to watch at London Fashion Week. Oh and there’s other stuff too, music, fashion, blah blah blah…you don’t need me to spoon feed you the content; just feast your eyes on the damn thing. Hopefully you’ll love it and want to subscribe. Do it online. Mucho gracias, merci beacoup, mange tak… and all that xxx

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Style Notes: NEW GRUNGE Grunge is back, and it’s pure Nirvana

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Forget Nu Rave, club kitsch just got the Berlin treatment

FIVE UNSIGNED Rogues, Bleech, Anna Calvi, Gold Teeth & The Delanies BAND THREADS Eric Guillemain shoots fashion in the Big Apple THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT Post-apocalyptic pop is set to infect Britain HOWLING BELLS Silence plus MGMT inspires a beat-fest all the way FASHIONATION The ones to watch at London Fashion Week A1 BASS LINE Seriously…who doesn’t like it when the bass comes in? FASHION & music NEWS -

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The delights of gigging & binging in the Danish capital

ALBUM REVIEWS We packed in eight of them... BRIEF ENCOUNTER Kristian Marr: We start…he finishes Ask the DJs FMS requests the top ten tunes to stalk by... 07

Luke Crowther Joel Stoker THE RIFLES

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style notes: NEW GRUNGE Memories of grunge the first time round? Unwashed hair, dirty finger nails and the smell of teen spirit. Our wardrobes may be reluctant to return to a perpetual state of grubbiness but the time has come to drag that checked shirt out again. Denim is back in a big way too - think sleeveless jackets, denim shirts and stone-wash jeans - even the dreaded double-denim makes a comeback. Don’t forget to resurrect that sloppy jumper either; you know the one with the fraying thumb holes? The more moth-eaten the better.Yes, grunge is back and it’s pure Nirvana.

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WHITE LIES HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW Words: andrew future - Photos: Michael Robert Williams

ust when you thought it was safe to look forward to a year of more Lily Allen, post-Libertines wannabes and the God awful Ting Tings, three nearGoths from west London shoot to number one with one of the most morbidly brilliant debut records in ages. Put the kids to bed and welcome White Lies. But don’t let them do a photo shoot on the roof. Just in case... It’s the day before White Lies fly to Russia to film their new video and they’re currently number one in the mid-week album charts. The band soberly try and hide their excitement and instead talk about the bet with touring partners Glasvegas over who will sell the most records. “If we win, they have to listen to Metallica’s whole back catalogue - from finish to start,” states singer and guitarist Harry McVeigh, with deadly intent. “That way, they’d have to listen to five albums of pure shit.” “If they win we have to go to Glasgow Die Hard III style and stand on a corner with a billboard around us that says ‘I hate Scotland’. “I’m gonna get schtabbed,” joins in bassist and lyricist Charles Cave, referencing the Glasvegas song ‘Stabbed’. Cave’s dark wit and astute word craft are a large part of what defines To Lose My Life...It’s a record crafted out of doom that some emanates joyous bursts of power and energy. Of course it sounds a bit like Interpol and the Killers in places, however much anyone may try to deny it. But the pop appeal of White Lies is very much to their advantage. And besides, the Killers would never write a song about burying bodies in the mud. “We never really set out to replicate our favourite music,” says Jack Lawrence-Brown, the band’s brighteyed, chirpy drummer. “I think that’d be one of the worst things to do. You can take inspiration but we’d

never be tempted to rip people off. There were a few things we all liked, Secret Machines was one.” “Their first album was so great,” joins in Harry, “like one of the best albums ever. They’ve got a very specific style and sound and have struggled to beat their debut.” Harry, a big Queens of the Stone Age fan hails from Shepherds Bush while Charles and Jack come from a suburb (“not really a village”) near Ealing, slightly further west. Before they became the dark trio they are now, they were a sceney A&R huggin’ outfit called Fear of Flying. “We didn’t really look at it as a name change,” explains Harry. “It was more of a complete change of band even though it was the same members. “With Fear of Flying, we were 15, and between 15 and 19 we grew up a lot musically and learnt a lot more about the music industry. Charles got better at writing lyrics and we all got better at playing. Eventually we wrote a song, ‘Unfinished Business’ that was so different to what we done before and so much better we felt it deserved to start again under a new title, create a new band.” The boys recorded their record over two months last May. “It’s a happy coincidence that we work really well under pressure,” says Charles. “The music and lyrics are very suited to a tense and dramatic vibe and it’s not hard to create that when someone’s saying ‘you’ve got a day to write a song’, I think that really shaped the record.” But what about if you had longer to write music, perhaps for a film? Charles: If I could pick any film to score, I’d say maybe ET, but that had a really sick score to begin. >>

Harry: Scarface could be a really good film if it didn’t have the most cheesy ‘80s music. Charles: I’m gonna say Enter The Dragon, as it’s got this ridiculous ‘70s funk all over it and sounds like a porn film. Jack: A film I recently saw that was awesome where the score could have been better; that I got for Christmas was... Charles: High School Musical Three! Jack: Werner Herzog’s Fitz Corraldo. They put a boat over a mountain; I reckon we could do quite a lot with that. So how serious is the doom and gloom? Harry: We do contemplate things like that when we’re writing songs. We do take it quite seriously but if we’re focused on it all the time then we’d be mental, shambolically depressed all the time. It’s almost like therapy. We do feel those things just not all the time. Charles: I think it’s fairly naive to think there’s only one side to peoples personality. The way we write music reflects one side of our personality and that’s the music we make. So no Hoosiers style EP coming any time soon then? Jack: That’s the other side, the joyous Hoosiers vibe and I’m sure you can expect something along those lines in the future. I’ll fucking hang myself if I ever hear that. Jack: The music that we make relates to a side of our personality we enjoy expressing. Harry: I don’t think anyone ever shows people that side of their personality. The record’s at its best when it’s surging on a sea of clever rhythmic and big synths. What are the driving forces behind that? Charles: We’ve all always liked Talking Heads. Several

of their later albums influenced by quite complex polyrhythm and although we’re not going that deep with this first record, there is that very rhythmic sense to a lot of the songs and especially with bass and drums. Jack often plays things off the beaten track and I’m taking his lead and following him and that’s often very interesting. It leaves a lot more space and the vocals can be quite calm and straight, other bands just play simple rhythms, with simple structures they have to start getting more excitable with the vocals, and that’s when you end up with stuff like the Hoosiers. What influences put you in that place? Charles: Its weird talking about influences because I’m 50% influenced by Steve Harris from Iron Maiden and you wouldn’t ever hear that in our music. But that’s how I like to play: fast and galloping. Jack: We don’t share the same influences and it’s rare we find the same CDs we’re all into. A few come up now and again but most of the time it gets shot down by one of us and that’s quite a healthy dynamic, because when we write we’re each bringing something to the table And what would you have on your tombstones? Charles: I think I’d go for something really cryptic like ‘I told you so/you know who I’m talking to’. Harry: You can be as arrogant as you want after you die, so I’d just have ‘Here lies Harry McVeigh , the greatest man who ever lived’. Jack: Mine will be blank; I was something to everyone, so here’s my blank tombstone. Harry: I was thinking about having my body preserved in a coffin of resin with a window on the side, and possibly a switch that makes the eyes light up. Maybe a mausoleum? • White Lies’ To Lose My Life is out now on Fiction myspace.com/whitelies

style notes: BERLIN beats In the darkness of a room lit by a thousand strobes, colour and shape flits in and out of visual consciousness. A glance to the left reveals a flash of some dude in a top hat dancing with someone in rabbit ears. To the right, a glimpse of a bearded face is illuminated from under an etch-a-sketch hood before vanishing behind a blink of gold chain.You look down and your own red jeans appear and disappear. Forget Nu Rave, club kitsch just got the Berlin treatment. Day-glo brights are replaced with faded fluoros and yellow smiley faces are ousted in favour of a darker, twisted sensibility. Clubbing has gone to the Wall. Berlin hier komme ich

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his musical divergence is already tied tightly to rising public interest and has been simmering up a commotion with it’s cleverly aligned pop tones, styled lightly with glam/art rock. When you hear the term rogue, it’s automatically associated to that of a scamp, or maybe those Rogue Traders who operate outside normal or desirable control. By coincidence you’ll find that these Rogues are operating outside the over-subscribed genre of indie guitar that pitches the same dying Oasis or Libertines struck sound. Rogues are pursuing musical dimensions that are “real, but not real” says Pearse MacIntyre.

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“We always wanted our music to be a kind of hybrid, weird pop. To Sam and me that notion comes as a visual as well as a sound.” And an admiration for David Bowie doesn’t go amiss in terms of dreamscape, as Pearse explains “it’s because of the way you slip into his world when you listen to him, it’s not always a pretty place, but it exists.”

“We always wanted our music to be a kind of hybrid, weird pop. To Sam and me that notion comes as a visual as well as a sound.”

Songs originated from the friendship between Pearse and Sam James (both vocals/guitar), who began writing together a year ago. Drummer, Tom MacIntyre, was at the time gallivanting Australian lands. Patrick Fraser (keyboard) playing jazz piano on a cruise ship and Frog, AKA John MacIntyre (bass), the youngest of the band, was doing as he pleased. August 2008 united them collectively as Rogues, radiating an attractive mastery of new wave, 80s pop and eclectically bouncing hooks, all accessibly adapted to the times.

Wars, because they fend off daytime TV psychosis and you get to see the whole of the UK in half an hour… also the mother of the pack of foxes which visits our garden at night, [she] is devoted and deserves an award.” declares Frog.

John was christened Frog by his elder brothers. They stole the name from an educational program watched at school that featured a Caterpillar named Frug. John, being only a baby wrapped in a blanket at the time held more than a passing resemblance for the schoolboys. The name, having somehow become “twisted and over romanticised” over the years, explains Pearse, has now settled as Frog. “Caterpillars don’t evolve into frogs do they?” He jokes.

Inspiration for Tom comes in the form of “John Bonham and all the guys down at Orange County Choppers, they kept me going through an autumn of discontent…and Strongbow of course.” For Pearse it’s the songs that saved your life through late adolescent angst, “William It Was Really Nothing by The Smiths got me through college. And of course there’s Jamie T.” Sam ventures in with the likes of “Johnny Thunders, Jim Carroll, and Richey Manic.”

Rogues are inspired not only by literary greats but by the general fear and panic of consciousness. And, “Whoever produces Street Crime UK and Road

Band life is full in its fresh flow with endless gigs scheduled across the U.K.A three day NME Shockwaves Tour, supporting Iglu and Hartly for the second time,

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commences in London on the 17th February, followed by Manchester and Glasgow. There’s certainly no ounce of time for acting in unfulfilled drudgery. “I had to give up my temping job, which included twelve hours of envelope opening everyday…where the job prospect was basically ‘bring plasters to work’. I was choked, naturally” laughs Pearse.

Patrick who has a fondness for legends such as “Miles Davis, Herby Hancock, and Ray Charles – They’re jazz cats like myself, also James Dean…I like his style”, discloses brotherly information. “Those three are the most humbling siblings I’ve ever encountered” with Sam adding, “They only tend to argue over who gets to wear what clothes mainly.” Pearse continues, “As brothers our musical journeys are pretty much intertwined. I remember Tom hitting pillows with chopsticks along to Dave Grohl on Nevermind. He’s always liked hitting things.” Sam, hailing from Wales also lives within the Macintyre household and Patrick just down the road. Constant is the (musical) Nutty Professor-esque antics down in the shed at the garden’s end. “I like the idea of operating out of a HQ; it’s some kind of war room fantasy I harbour.” tells Pearse. It’s definitely all thanks to the shed – Its paved way to airplay from Zane Lowe, Steve

Lamacq (also a live session), Huw Stephens, and John Kennedy.

Lead singer Sam’s penchant for feathered earrings, is in keeping with an overall style that’s interesting in its eclectic trends and largely reminiscent of the Lost Boys; bringing even more flavour to the crux of the music. Combine this with their roguish good looks and thoughts falsely assume the band may have an attitude, but not at all. You’re met with a quiet like demeanour containing a mountain of wit, charm and intelligence. Being new to the industry it’s this and their visionary charisma, along with a uniquely composed actively dreamy pop sound that can only become more prominent within musical change. ‘Not So Pretty’ will be the first smashing single, launched on the 12th March at the Macbeth in Shoreditch – actual release date: 16th March via 50 Bones (Little Boots, Virgins…) You’ll find the FEED ME remix on our free CD and you know what…it really is more than pretty, don’t believe what they say. • myspace.com/roguesroguesrogues Words: Connie Hart Photo: Michael Robert Williams

atherine and Jennifer O’Neil, teamed with pulse racing Matt Bickman on drums, are inducing the music circuit with rock fuelled distortion…a sound sure to bring down any venue. Off-stage life for this young band could not be more different, what with school and unsatisfying 9-5 job roles to contend with. But Bleech front it well and play with passion no matter what. Katherine, who currently juggles 6th form with bass and backing vocals, and lead singer/guitarist Jennifer, were inspired by their father’s love of music, and his band – Nine Below Zero. “Yeah our dad has to be one of my main influences. Having grown up being surrounded by music and always going to see gigs of dads, I’ve always thought that’s really what I want to do.” Matt was shaped by legends such as “Jim Morrison and John Theodore from Mars Volta and Angus Young”. His family was also an influence. “My Dad played me Robert Palmer tapes and Depeche Mode as a child. I started playing guitar at eleven as I wasn’t allowed a drum kit! In fact I have only JUST bought my first Gretch drum kit, its mad!” Jennifer is the chief lyricist, and she’s charged by life’s constant turnover of emotions “and a very vivid imagination!” she says. The magic happens in the converted loft of the O’Neil’s home, “we have really nice neighbours!” that’s a relief. Eager is the protest to not be categorized with their music, it being all too easy to get the wrong impression of a band fronted by two pretty girls, especially as they warrant the same seriousness given to male bands…if not more. Let the females dominate rock for a while, they deserve it for sure.

Stylist: Kate Kearney - Make-up: Emily Amanda

“We all grew up in the 90s when Brit pop and grunge were around and that’s had an influence” Says Jen.

Bleech project a powerful sound that’s deep and contagious, almost bringing forth a grunge undertone, layered with easily absorbed lyrics that connect well with the audience; not only by word but also through their stage presence. Katherine barefooted on tiptoes (almost like a ballerina) thrashes her platinum blonde hair to the wonderfully dirty guitar parts, and Jen with face half covered by her stunning flame coloured hair readily infects you with her personalized tone, rooting from her darkest depths. “We get compared to a lot of bands that are girl fronted just because we have girls in the band…which

we don’t want to get drawn into” Says Jen. “I think as a band we just don’t want to be branded under one label” Katherine adds. With potential stadium sounds, no way could you class them as ‘just a girl band’. There is no comparison to any of that ‘mind-my-nails’ bollocks. Bleech mean business. Am I wrong in presuming lots of sisterly arguments? “Hahaha! I think you should ask Matt that one...yes we do argue...quite a bit” admits Katherine. “Hmm” is Matt’s response; poor guy. They all realize the knock on effect that illegal downloading has, and will continue to have on the music industry. “I caught my sister on Limewire the other day.” Matt tells me, “and I said to her - you’re

“With potential stadium sounds, no way could you class them as ‘just a girl band’. There is no comparison to any of that ‘mind-mynails’ bollocks. Bleech mean business.’’ literally stealing. When we put our single out in April we’re going to be very poor because of people like you!” Jennifer feels like she’s the only one who goes out and buys CDs, and shockingly Katherine states “a boy in my school didn’t even realise they still sold CDs and was very shocked when I told him otherwise...I think that pretty much sums it up!” Having supported Pete Doherty and The Rifles, been Steve Lamacq’s Radio 6 Unsigned Band of the Week, and John Kennedy’s Top Tune Recommendation (not to mention an impressive amount of gigs in total, and even more lined up) there is no excuse not to check this band out. The release of their single ‘Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry’ is due out on the 13th April on Pure Groove. As Jennifer so rightly says “Watch out for this space…” • myspace.com/bleech Words: Connie Hart Photo: Michael Robert Williams

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collection of instruments, emotions, strong feelings and desire, fronted by Anna Calvi, armed innocently with her guitar or violin, Mally Harpez on percussion and Nick Maiden-Wood on drums, a musical union that began just six months ago. Anna is fortunate to have a band that shares the same responsive pathways when it comes to mind and music. Nick has been playing the drums for eleven years, and draws many a beat from American drummer David King, “who I’m kind of obsessed with”. Having dipped in and out of other bands he explains his connection and settlement with his latest affair. “This is the one where I feel like I can express myself – other bands have been more, sort of just indie pop.” And then there is Mally who’s not only a great long-time friend of Anna, but is also something of a mystery. With an international accent hard to pin point, and a bohemian fashion my curiosity to the topic was responded secretively “It’s a long story, maybe another time…” and said with a wide grin, entailing my belief that this is a woman with many a story to tell. Maybe we should call her Mysterious Mally...

room with a much desired extraordinary mood. The euphoric hatchings of sound happen within what Anna describes as a “tiny, messy underground space” and at all hours of the morning where inspiration is at its peak “It’s not very glamorous, but it’s perfect I love it.” Known to sleep within her creative space, dedication is a word not to be used carelessly. I wonder if anyone’s musical career would be a liveable choice, “I think anyone is allowed to get on with what they do, and that people respect that they need to change and grow because that is their art, that’s what they’re doing” answers Anna. On a mutual level emotionally, and having surrounded themselves in music for all of the same reasons, and more importantly for all of the right reasons, they will always have elements of annoyance at the unrealistic nature of music and the ones who try to obtain it without regard for its reputation. Anna expresses, “people that are doing it for the wrong reasons really bother me, people who do it to be cool or for some like, careerist reason; I think it should be an art and

Anna feels born and bred for music “I started playing the violin when I was very little, and then I discovered the guitar which really changed everything. I then got into Jimi Hendrix and all those guys, and it just developed.” Since studying music at university Anna has been involved in different projects, having now alighted with her most serious of all, she has managed to merge her musical talents. “It’s the reason I feel I’m here, I feel more me when I am expressing myself through music.”

“I started playing the violin when I was very little, and then I discovered the guitar which really changed everything. I then got into Jimi Hendrix and all those guys, and it just developed.”

Beautifully passionate is just one way of describing their intense and refined orchestral sound, overflowing through copious amounts of onstage energy. It’s a mesmerizing contrast from that of such a seemingly timid, small, yet stunningly admirable character when met in the flesh. Anna defines their music as “expensive, filmic, passionate and intense…it can then be intimate, and we can also become quite aggressive” rightly reflecting upon what must be her deepest sentiments. “It’s a good outlet for getting some emotions out if you feel quite contrived in life. And onstage you can feel who you are really.” Says Nick, the same goes for Mally who also shares the need for expressionism. “We are a very emotional band” Anna says laughing, knowing the full scale of the emotion and sensitivity.

that’s what it is for me.” With Nick agreeing, “Yeah there is this whole scene thing which I’m not really into, everyone is playing the same thing and there to look cool.”

‘Blackout’ is one of Anna Calvi’s amazingly atmospheric songs. Found on her MySpace its ever expanding, almost chilling introduction, builds up to an uplifting energy of loud harmonious instrumentals with intensely therapeutic ‘ooing’ added methodically, creating a wonderful pressure of sound sure to fill the

Right now, with an album currently in the making, it’s a case of leaving ‘Team Calvi’ to get on with it. Hopefully there will be a single released in the near future… expect big things from this little lady. •

Stylist: Kate Kearney - Make-up: Emily Amanda

On the Fashion side of things I was interested in their beautiful stage attire, “We actually have a girl that makes our clothes for us, she’s called Sharron Soor”. Anna also veers to the vintage shops for personal fashion fixes “I like finding different things.” and Mally is a keen charity shopper “I love charity shops” adding a hot tip... “Holloway Road is a good one!” Nick on the other hand prefers to do as guys often do and buy clothes and wear them “until they disintegrate”. On the plus side, I guess it saves on the whole vintage look.

myspace.com/annacalvi Words: Connie Hart Photo: Michael Robert Williams

hese are the goldest set of teeth you’ll ever feast, not only your eyes, but your ears too. A set of ultra bright personalities, polished with cheekiness and filled with colourful boisterous humour. Jonny Tams - Bleeps & Construction, Nick Rowson - Electric Twang, Will Ritson - Boom & Bap, Joe DaCosta - Mouth, George Longworth - Low Electric Twang Hailing from South London, this set of five creates music from sun, sea and sangria. No I’m not talking ‘Do do do, come on and do the conga’ or even ‘Hula Hana’ for that matter. We’re travelling tropical, caressing the calypso, stomping the ska, grabbing the jukebox jazz, diving into the surf zone, picking into the land of the ganja, and ploughing through electronic fields. This is where the underlying representation swings from, trees so far from the ‘Indie Nation’ it’s unbelievable. Travelling the seas of sound and back again, you won’t even have a chance to laugh at them; you’ll just be dancing to the electronically tailored tropical pop rock. Gold Teeth’s tracks can easily be queued up top with this summer’s big sounds. If they aren’t then I’ll physically ram them into your ear holes; fact.

Stylist: Kate Kearney - Groomer: Emily Amanda

Let me introduce you to this close bunch and their humorous energy. “We all went to a Catholic school on the hill and misbehaved – Joe jumped on the back of a rubbish truck and rode it all the way down the hill” declares Will.

Joe denies this. “And there is also no one with an Ego in the band, except me. So it’s good that there isn’t another ego that clashes with mine so yeah, that’s good.” He jokes. Missing from the band is George Longworth who plays bass “If he walked into the room everyone would love him” states Will. “Yeah, he’s got that groove about him.” adds Jonny “And that’s why we didn’t mention to him that we were coming today” – nice one Joe. Musical inspirations vary; each has their own spectrum of sounds but as a band - “A lot of the things that affect the music come from urban elements, like dub and soul…and we all like our jazz too” explains Jonny. ‘Everybody’ is Gold Teeth’s upcoming single. It’s a stomper of a song, with contagious tropical heartbeats, resourceful blasts of electronic commotion, and fine twitches of bleeps tuned to a mixture of genres; a sure hot foot to the dance floor. Now to everyone who has mistaken the line “you don’t even laugh at me” for “you don’t even love me” and made out that this lot are not in receipt of any luuurrrvvve from the ladies…

get it right (you know who you are). “It’s a song, kind of what we’re about really ‘cause we never really fit in anywhere,” states Jonny “and we all used to get bullied at school”(there goes a pinch of salt) “As a whole it doesn’t even have to be about girls anyway – I mean…we might want to be laughed at by dogs…or even bears...” adds Nick.

“We all went to a Catholic school on the hill and misbehaved – Joe jumped on the back of a rubbish truck and rode it all the way down the hill” “He’s multi talented, and I’m jealous of this” states Jonny, speaking of Will who is an intriguing character of sorts, this boy has an incredible eye for detail and produces amazing drawings. He integrates his prestige skill well within Gold Teeth, providing the artwork for logos and the upcoming single cover, undeniably adding a special touch of personality “I think it reflects a lot on the band” says Will. So do any of the others have hidden talents I wonder? Joe who teaches guitar and volunteers for Mencap sets the record straight, “I’m actually quite a good left back in football”. Nick a student of Geometry confesses his hidden skateboarding talent, and Johnny – who couldn’t live without ginger beer and is described by Joe as “an amazing producer” – praises the “mean goulash” cooked up by Nick. Glancing up I notice Will has taken off his glasses and is peering at them innocently from the other side, “I help Will sort of get back into living with other people,” says Joe “it’s like George of the jungle, but with Will”. “Yeah, he has been taken out of his natural habitat slightly,” Nick continues, clicking his fingers in Wills direction “and he does get distracted every now and again.” And just for the record guys? “Don’t take us too seriously” says Jonny. “That old lady, it wasn’t me...” announces Nick. ‘I can confirm that he wasn’t on the rubbish truck” adds Jonny. “I can confirm that he was” replies Nick...hmm. So how do we settle the sounds? “Ahhh man, it’s a beach party on the moon, and everyone is invited...” Thanks Will.• myspace.com/goldteeth Words: Connie Hart Photo: Michael Robert Williams

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he Delanies bring to London an uplifting epidemic of psychedelic energy, an extremely fetching rhythm arranged with methods fashioned from time-honoured classics. Anders and Nicholas Knudsen began paving their way to the stage back in Denmark. Writing songs together, they made their way across the North Sea to the action of our capital. Musicians have come and gone, bonds made and broken but David Arthur Jr, a young Scotsman fresh from the other side of Hadrian’s Wall (Glasgow to be precise) remains true. Missing from our photo shoot and interview is guitarist, Nicholas, who is currently in Denmark recording. But then it’s not gone a miss either; apparently the Ray and Dave Davis of Denmark and their Libertine style antics involve the odd impetuous fight along the way! “Me and my brother started, in about 2005…with a bit of a change of line up” Anders tells me. He met David randomly on a film set (The Stronger). No, Hollywood isn’t on the cards; they were doing a favour for a friend. But it did blossom rapidly into a strong friendship. “We have this kind of unity, where we just need to play music together” says David who plays bass and also has his own solo project ‘David Arthur Jr’. “It’s really hard to find the right line-up, me and Nich have always been right, and then David came along and we’re all like brothers” Anders states proudly. Behind the scenes The Delanies get run through the mill. David mentions, “It’s always been a band of kinda mishaps” The unreliability of members coming in and out (aside from Nich, Anders and David) has the tendency to make life difficult. “Actually it’s a bit like spinal tap! - but when we play, it’s always great” says Anders. And true is his word, with a blast of 60’s psychedelic having a love affair with “The Kinks, The Smiths, The Doors…” he lists. All of the greats combined into one big party are what you’re confronted with in the most entertaining and creative way possible.

shifting, undulating patterns with a great movement factor is one thing, but it can be shadowed by the struggles and strains that a lack of money to fund the producing of great recordings brings, this being the typical life of musicians. (Although clothes sponsor, Acne Jeans, guarantees a great image.) As David tells me “It’s always really tough to get the finances to record in a good studio – we had finance at one point and used David Bowie’s studio where we recorded two tracks, ‘Come on’ and ‘Doldrums’.”

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Tracks such as ‘White City Blues’ roam into the unwelcoming land of work, Anders explains. “It’s actually not a psychedelic song at all, it’s written as Blues.” David continues “Anders used to have this job in White City, and he used to phone me everyday complaining about his trip to work…all the way, which was like six stops or something” He laughs. “It’s basically about going from tinsel town to a job, we

“We have this kind of unity, where we just need to play music together.” were awake all night but then in the morning I had to go to work, it was just weird” describes Anders. “We are like The Kinks – Misunderstood” says Anders when asked which musical career he would most like to have…then he and David both reveal a penchant for the music in Disney films (hell yes!) *Signing an agreement in their imagination*, no doubt. “Let me tell you a thing or two about Denmark, in Denmark people think that they’re the biggest rock stars in the world if they sell like five hundred albums, and that’s the way it is…but in London you can meet people like Carl Barat, Amy Winehouse, [and] everyone is really down to earth, just wants to play music and have a good time. But in Denmark people are just snobs, they think the world of themselves, it’s like hey you live in a country with five million people in it, you’re local stars, there are no real stars.”

Coming from the most natural of instincts, Anders describes how the music often hits his mind “I was at Mike Jones’ house, and I had this guitar playing in my head all night long, so when I woke up in the morning I could just hear it and I wrote a song called the Skid Row Slumps…and played it on Mikes guitar!” Being one of his favourites, “I really want Amy Winehouse to record it” So Amy, if you’re reading…you know what to do.

Writing and recording is well under way in preparation for a tour through Europe. So if you fancy hanging out in the capital of romance, jump on the Eurostar and catch The Delanies in Paris on the 7th April. Who needs recession when you have another revolution? Come, join the party and make it the newest summer of love. •

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THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT FEAR AND LOATHING IN LA Words & PHOTOs: andrew future

orrissey’s longstanding exile in Los Angeles seems to be ever seeping through to the new generation of Smiths-worshipping rock bands. Fresh from setting America alight, the post-apocalyptic pop of the Airborne Toxic Event is now set to infect Britain. Despite being fresh faced and neatly turned out, Mikel Jollett has hardly slept since his band’s Leeds gig several days ago. The singer and guitarist somehow managed to survive a bloodbath of a gig, coming away with an impressive black eye that, if anything, seems to have lifted his spirits. “Everyone was sweating on each other and we had the front rows on stage and a big mad group jumping around. The back of this guy’s head cracked back into mine. He smiled and I smiled and I just carried on playing with blood pouring down my face. No lawsuits.” Hailing from Silver Lake, to the east of Hollywood, a bohemian ghetto of culture, Mikel previously earned his living as a journalist. Silver Lake’s probably best known for the late great Elliott Smith and the Silversun Pickups and couldn’t be more different to the brash fakery of Sunset Boulevard and everything that goes along with it. “Everybody would rather listen to hip

hop or Pearl Jam back home when we were young. I preferred listening to the Smiths or Stones Roses at school,” he recalls. A very immediate, affable and gracious individual, Mikel cites authors as his main influence. As a journalist, he worked for National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times and Men’s Health. It was while taking time out to write a novel that he created the band. “I spent a year alone in my apartment, kinda fucked off on the novel and the band became an obsession. I met Daren, the drummer, first and the rest of us were all friends of friends. For me, the UK has always been this far away romantic place where all these great bands come from.” Having written the songs, Mikel began playing with drummer Daren Taylor who quickly breathed life – and guts – into his work. “Daren and I went into a warehouse after we just met and began running through the songs. He was in from day one so we spent time with just a guitar, mic, drums and a crate of beer. Sometimes it would start off mellow but he’s got such a powerful backbeat and suddenly things would become really visceral and it just made sense: a real sense of catharsis. “

Mikel cites the likes of David Bowie, the Smiths, Radiohead and Grandaddy (responsible for classic album ‘The Sophtware Slump’) among his influences but insists that he’s very much American. “The thing with Americans,” he says, “is they don’t export their dissent. We export McDonald’s and George W Bush. It’s a very British approach to craft the songs and not form them out of jams. That’s why I love British music. I’m not really a jammer at all.” Lucky then that his band mates are a mix of experienced, classically trained musicians. As you’d expect from a band who takes their name from Don DeLillo’s award-winning novel White Noise, the Airborne Toxic Event’s debut is a gloom-ridden journey through broken relationships, compulsion, sickness and fear. Written during a period of relationship breakdown while his mother was also ill, Mikel Jollett also found out that he suffered from autoimmune disorder, a genetic condition that can, in extreme cases, cause many kinds of serious health problems. Yet he deals with it in a positive way. “It’s mainly cosmetic stuff,” Mikel says resiliently. “Clumps of hair will fall out or I’ll lose an eyebrow. There’s a lot worse

“I’m no more fucked up than anyone else,” he says. “Am I still walking around broken hearted about my ex? Not really. I just went through a tough time. That’s just where I was at. There’s a line in a book called The Road by Cormac McCarthy, who wrote No Country for Old Men, that says ‘the appropriate dreams of a man in peril are dreams of peril’.The story’s about this father and son going down this post-apocalyptic road, and as someone writing these songs it was just what I was going through.”

reasons to lose your hair. It was probably a blessing because it meant the band couldn’t be a vanity project. I knew that right away. It was after our first show when I started to get really bad symptoms. I figured I wouldn’t be this cute front man so I better write some good songs. It’s meant that I’ve had to focus on those things and I have.” And does it come out much through the music? “I’m usually concentrating on trying to get it right. Once I get over that its fine. Our shows tend to be boozy affairs, so there’s always an energy that gets caught up. A lot of the times, we just get caught up in the moment and don’t remember much the next day.” For the most part though, he’s not caught up in the demos of the past any more.

It’s all a long way from his days alone at home crafting out the record. “It’s a big adjustment,” Mikel admits. “Being in a band is a very social thing. If you’re writing a book, you’re in a room on your own, but if you’re creating music you have a real opportunity to create a moment right there in front of people.” While Mikel claims there was no intent behind becoming a ‘popular’ band, clearly now, with the potential to ‘do an Arcade Fire’ the band will have changed their perspective. How does it all contrast with the feeling of being alone? “It’s really surreal some days,” says Mikel, pondering the question. “All you can control is your attitude and how much effort you put and whether you maintain a balance of humanity in your life. We’re brand new at this, but it’s really gratifying to be compared to people you grew up worshipping.” “I hope from a year we’re in a touring band and haven’t lost our heads and are still decent people,” he adds with a smile. “I reckon we’ll still be very focused creatively on what we’re working on. It doesn’t matter if you become the Beatles if you become an asshole along the way. Whatever happens, the important thing is that we handle it with grace.”• myspace.com/theairbornetoxicevent

HOWLING BELLS SCREAMADELICA Words & photo: andrew future

While there may be dozens of female singersongwriters threatening to don a dress for a bit of chart entry, intuitive, intelligent grrrl fronted rock bands are few and far between. Thank heavens then for the quite wonderful Juanita Stein, as her band Howling Bells return with Radio Wars, one of the killer records for 2009. “Shopping for guitars in London is like being in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” muses Howling Bells guitarist Joel Stein. “You fuckin’ touch anyfink and I’ll shoot ya!” Clearly scarred by this experience, one of the best live guitar players in years has downed his weapons in favour of synth city. The result is something quite

extraordinary: a ballsy, beat driven, electric-rock record that’s dark and dramatic, yet melodic to the core. Howling Bells broke through in 2006, mangling Mazzy Star-esq bombast around the best bits of Britpop. The group took Juanita Stein’s astonishing pop songs and created one of the best and most bitingly addictive guitar albums in years. Released through trendy indie label Bella Union, home to The Dears, Dirty Three, Midlake and Fionn Regan, it wowed critics and fans alike. On stage, Juanita’s brooding presence recalls fellow Aussie Nick Cave, matched with the magnetism of Polly Harvey, sparkling in every scorching twang of melody.

Radio Wars has a lushness not heard since Air’s ‘Moon Safari’ invented coffee-table lawyer pop a decade ago. But make no mistake, however saccharine sweet the melodies, it’s a beat-fest all the way.

“The city pollutes your mind, in a good way sometimes, but sometimes you just need silence to actually hear things. Even the music you’re writing, you can hear it better than in the city.”

“The way we wrote this record allowed different instruments to take on the melody and it meant that Glenn didn’t need to rein in his drums,” explains Brendan Picchio, the BRMC-esq bass player. “The beat would often now be very much the feature of the song rather than just something behind it.”

“Will Self, the British novelist, said in a recent article that guitar, bass and drums were Stone Age instruments, so why would he listen to the likes of Arctic Monkeys when this stuff was being done forty years ago?” recalls Joel, strangely undermining his position as the band’s lead guitarist.

From the opening rattle of ‘Treasure Hunt’ the record is relentless. It’s cinematic and wonderfully produced, but never in an overbearing way. Stripped of studio niceties the songs hold up perfectly live, a testament to the actual tunes.

“There’s nothing more beautiful and effective than an acoustic guitar and a good song though,” is Juanita’s response.

“The funny thing is our influences are the same as they were before. Music started at a very young age and our parents never forced it upon us. My old man said it was up to me when I said I wanted to be a guitarist.” Naturally, his sister found it hard at first to relinquish her control over song writing. “It was the first time we’d all collaborated equally, especially on lyrics as well, and to hand over a part of the song and get everyone’s ideas for poetry and concepts was difficult.” But the question all the boys will want to know the answer to is whether Juanita has managed to get over being angry and heartbroken. “I don’t know if your heart is ever truly mended. You don’t heal, but you accept and move on. That’s kinda what this record is for me: it’s a celebration of acceptance and growth and embracing it all as a band.” Despite listening to lots of MGMT, one of the biggest inspirations behind Radio Wars was silence. The band hired an isolated old house in Victoria, Australia with each member bringing in a sack of songs before they all pulled everything to pieces, reinterpreting and sharing ideas. “If we weren’t writing songs we were watching films and if we weren’t watching films we were reading books,” Juanita recalls.

But if someone said Joel could make a record only on synths or guitars, which would he pick? “Synths, but after that record was done, it’d probably be guitars.” Juanita though is keen to stay in the present. “Playing old songs is like being reminded of bad times, really. Or, if you’re an optimist it can be a reminder of how far you’ve progressed. I’m a neutralist, a realist. I’m a wild hippy at heart. We had a very bohemian upbringing, a musician father, actress mother and grandparents who were writers, authors, painters and parts.” Did you not fancy something different - like working in a bank? “That’s usually where kids end up digressing,” she replies, “but it wasn’t too radical. It wasn’t so crazy we felt a need to rebel, we just went with it and it was all cool. ”We were force fed Dylan like you wouldn’t believe, it was non stop, there was no melody, it was boring and I hated it. I remember one day going up to the attic and dad was sitting there with a glass of whiskey and it all made sense. It was just as much about lifestyle as it was about music, but I had to go through and understand his lyrics – they’re wildly intelligent, very relevant.” The talk of Dylan gets Juanita back into deep thought mode once again. “We planted our seeds in London and I just hope people feel like I feel when I hear this record: really inspired, excited and optimistic,” Juanita says. • Radio Wars is released through Independiente on 2 March myspace.com/howlingbells

“All you were being was inspired,” Joel remembers. “If we were rehearsing we’d stop playing and all you could hear would be the trees.”

FASH ION ATION As London Fashion Week rolls into town for another season, Jodie Ball catches up with four of the hottest newbie’s on the schedule. Take note, these are the names to know...

MARY Katrantzou The term ‘bright young thing’ has never been as apt as when applied to Greek print designer Mary Katrantzou. Just like her clothes, the buzz surrounding her this season is “hyper real”. Katrantzou has made a speedy entry into the fashion ether – riding high on the rave reviews from her graduate collection and a stint working for Sophia Kokosolaki, Katrantzou’s summer 2009 collection went straight into production. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Following her original aesthetic – brightly-coloured shift dresses emblazoned with trompe l’oeil prints of oversized jewellery – Katrantzou gently tweaked her original designs and the collection was snapped up by über hip boutique Browns. A jewellery line accompanies her clothes, echoing the prints in a kind of chicken and the egg-type balance.

Which came first?

Inspired by robots and Russian Constructivism her total look is about bold statement dressing which, in these times of financial crisis, offers a welcome jab of optimism in a world of pared back fashion and gloomy grey city suits. Her dresses cry out in a colour-deprived country and will undoubtedly bring a rainbow of excitement to the capital this month. Sponsored by Topshop (we smell a diffusion line brewing) Katrantzou will make her runway debut at London Fashion Week in February, alongside knitwear designer Mark Fast. The new collection will still have the photo-real prints at its heart but the jewellery theme will be ousted in favour of prints inspired by vintage perfume bottles and Victorian portraiture. We simply cannot wait. • Mary Katrantzou is available exclusively at Browns. Her show will take place on 24th February as part of LFW.

“I don’t have a muse,” says Jonathan William Anderson. “But I keep going back to this painting by Guido Reni, of the Archangel Saint Michael – the patron saint of warriors.” For summer, Anderson draws lofty inspiration from religion, symbolism and art – particularly the artists Raphael and Velasquez, and the outcome is a collection that is most definitely Godly. Angel-faced boys pattered down the runway barefoot, bedecked in halos and headbands. His look also has a certain college-boy charm to it - think Evelyn Waugh circa Brideshead Revisited; rebellious Oxonians in causal suiting, nonchalant bowties and a palette of collegiate navy, grey and fallow. For winter, things are set to take a more exotic turn. “It’s about a brave new world,” explains the designer who used to be Rufus Wainwright’s stylist.“I’ve worked with the idea of magnificent old tales of travel and

fantasy, of explorers and mysterious expeditions. “It’s a story of a young aristocrat who escapes the boredom of tradition and protocol, and travels the world on a treasure hunt to discover new ideas and rethink old ones.” Anderson will make his on-schedule Fashion Week debut this February, showing his winter collection as part of the MAN showcase – a collaborative project between Topman and new talent stable Fashion East. “Our primary manifesto is that England should become the menswear country it once was and I think, with MAN and the new dedicated menswear day, LFW are taking a step in the right direction for that to become a reality.” Hear, hear Jay Dubya. • JW Anderson is available at Liberty in London. The MAN catwalk show will take place 25th February 2009 as part of LFW

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CAROLYN MASSEY “I would like to meet: drunks, letches and sorcerers,” reads Carolyn Massey’s black MySpace page. Oh, and “people who hand sew until their fingers bleed.” Nice. Despite being up and running since 2006, Carolyn Massey’s eponymous menswear label will make its catwalk debut as part of London Fashion Week’s first ever dedicated menswear showcase this month. “I have been ranting about this to anyone who will listen for years,” says the self-confessed detail obsessive who loves the smell of dead flowers and nail varnish. “The menswear focused day will finally put British menswear on the map and to see my collection presented on such a platform is an honour.” Massey is inspired by “the sartorial code of what it is to be a gentleman and how this has been appropriated during times of social or civil unrest”. Ooh. In layman’s terms, that means clothes born out of scrupulous research at various museum archives including the National Army Museum at Sandhurst. “There’s definitely a sense of drama and ceremony to my aesthetic,” says the designer. While her forthcoming winter collection fuses military touches with gentlemanly elegance, her current summer offer has more of an Etonian school-boy vibe – leg-baring shorts, draw cord trousers and starchcollared shirts buttoned to the neck. But for this fast-paced designer, summer is old news and all her thoughts are focused on her Fashion Week debut. “I’ve done this amazing poncho with a black patent leather hat,” she says. “It looks a bit bonkers but everybody wants one.” You heard it here first. • Carolyn Massey is available at Doors in London, her Topman diffusion line is stocked in the Lens boutique at the Oxford Circus flagship store.The Carolyn Massey catwalk show will take place 25th February 2009 as part of LFW.

Having made his London runway debut last season, Charles Anastase technically isn’t new to the Fashion Week schedule. But we just wanted to make sure his name had properly embedded itself on your conscience. Repeat after us: Charles Anastase. Charles Anastase. Charles Ananstase. The boy has an impressive resume, starting out in political science before jacking it in to become an artist and presenting exhibitions in Paris, Vienna, Tokyo and Mexico. In 2004 he was spotted by the powers that be at Calvin Klein, who commissioned him to illustrate their ad campaign, which in turn lit his glittering path into fashion-hood. Having previously shown in Paris, the French designer upped sticks last year to show in the British capital. If you missed it the first time round (where were you?) the look was Degas ballerina-meets-Lolita and in short, it rocked. Sheer tutus were styled with stockings and cropped leather jackets, while a pair of skinny-fit jeans had a hoochie mama-style appliqué across the ass. Sweet summer-white dresses revealed a hint of knicker shadow and a sugar-pink wrap encircled the body like a straight-jacket. It was pure good-girl-gone-bad. Anastase will return to London Fashion Week this month and the buzz surrounding this designer seems to be reaching fever pitch as celebrity fans such as Beth Ditto, Chloe Sevigny and Kiera Knightly succumb to his topsy-turvy Princess Disturbia look. Needless to say, we do too. • Charles Anastase is available at Dover Street Market, Browns and The Shop at Bluebird in London. His autumn/ winter 2009 show will take place on 21st February at LFW.

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THE ONLY LINE YOU NEED Words: CONNIE HART - Photo: Michael Robert Williams

o you hold your breath waiting; does your stomach do its own integrated remix, along with a heart doubling in speed due to anticipation? If no applies to all of those, then I think you need to reconsider. Seriously…who doesn’t like it when the bass comes in? And the bass is certainly approaching by storm from Christian Sibthorpe, London producer and one half of successful Toystep duo Partyshank. Creative waves of sound from this set-up rise to the next level, arresting an overflowing mix of Punk, Powerpop, Jungle, Grime and Bass. Thrashing is the sound produced, combining a colourful chaos that only leaves room to presume a hankering for music creation has been fulfilled. But no, not for this aficionado who operates from that indestructible musical apex that thrives on a multitude of side projects all on overdrive. Christian’s newest engagement, A1 Bassline, is bona fide to the name. Delve only into the shallow end of the hype and you’ll find that this project certainly hasn’t gone amiss in terms of airplay on major radio stations. With the likes of Annie Mac dropping Girl Thing and Kissy Sellout slamming his own little version of We Love Pussy. Not to mention support from DJs worldwide such as Steve Aoki and Le Castle Vania. This dance floor demolisher and subject of content for frantic bloggers is becoming so in demand it’s bloodthirsty, bringing light to five years of consistently driving the front seat of passion. “I’ve just finished off tracks for Little Boots, Yo Majesty, Esser, and The Virgins.” States Christian…and of course the smashing remix of Frank Music’s 3 Little Words, “I pretty much do something to do with music every day.” It’s this attitude that’s at the forefront of his accelerated direction and takes him from country to country, “If I’m not in the studio then I’ll be travelling somewhere to play, or be doing something music related”. They say success is at the height of sacrifice, as Christian well knows “Actually my social life is pretty horrid at the moment.” It may well feel horrid, but experiences haven’t fallen short,“I did a track with Blake Miller from Moving Units which was pretty cool. He missed his flight home to

L.A and ended up at mine for the night, we stayed up all night and finished a track.” By introducing you to A1 Bassline I’m spinning you onto a winner and freshening the breeze with this young innovator. Expect unpredictable musical imprints ranging through the times and dipping into genres from Garage, to shards of Drum ‘n’ Bass; all crossovers tailored into a uniquely future sound. Emerging from Christian’s unbounded impulses are vigorously grinding electro, bouncing through the house inspired scales at sufficiently erratic tempos, Garage bass line stuck to aired beats, and Hip-Hop elements all perfectly combined. With pounding tunes such as Bad Man Horror Theme, impaling fast spikes into the built up intertwined garage, and house infected bass line layered with short vocals reminiscent from Old Skool D ‘n’ B tracks, not an ounce of pressure is there to pull some serious shapes; you won’t even realize you’re doing it…a sure fire starter by all means. Future wise there are big things in the pipeline for Christian, with him producing and writing music for not only himself but other big players on the circuit. “As long as I don’t have a 9-5 job then it’s all good!” The likelihood of that happening is on a run to nothing. So what does he do when music is not on the brain I wonder…”Ahh it’s always on the brain. Maybe for the few seconds it isn’t…women, ha”. With a broad selection of tracks and remixes to look out for, rest assured you’ll not be disgruntled. And if you just so happen to be hanging with the plastics in L.A then be sure to catch a DJ set by A1 Bassline at Sin City. If not and you’re blessed enough to reside in the rain of the UK, maybe bop along to another one at Brixton, Doncaster or Sheffield. Check out his MySpace and have a butcher at all the dates with ears pricked to the six shit-hot tracks profiled. Skip onto www.coppertallis.blogspot.com and you’ll also find interviews, downloads and updates not only A1 Bassline and Partyshank, but all the cutting edge new music and fresh up and coming artists that are having an impact on London sounds. • myspace.com/a1bassline

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NIGHT VISION SHINING A LIGHT ON INNOVATIVE PROMOTERS[ It’s often behind the scenes brain power sparking those festivals, events, and club nights. Whipping up the vibes, and venting vibrations to the patrons of party is a role undertaken purely for the purpose of the people. Those people are the night’s pulse, and the night’s vision. To bring that vision into the light, Smirnoff are unearthing, and acting as the foundations to those who are a cut above the rest. Great event innovators are to be rewarded through Night Vision, a project with a national panel of luminary nightclub experts. Key to the initiative are Radio 1’s Rob da Bank, Don’t Panic founder Nick Agha, Primary Talent’s Chris Hearn and Cream honcho James Barton. They’re ready and waiting to unlock the safe and hand over ten monthly bursaries of £2,000 to the winners, following a successful series of events in Manchester last year which, saw nights light up with laser shows, showgirls, Bluetooth technology, magic and live art installations. Can you do it? Have you already done it, but crave more? Go for it…what have you got to lose? To qualify for the bursary be sure to set your mind on BIG things, then simply join and make it happen…• www.facebook.com/smirnofforiginalnights

Words: Connie Hart

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RM OF SHA LA LAS ia A. (Colour) Words: LASSE STO iansen (B/W) Tan ge) Unni Christ sta ck (Ba ch Kis Photos: Matthias

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LIGHTS OF GIGG GS AND OTHER DE

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o yeah, we played this club called Rust last Friday. It’s one in a handful of clubs in Copenhagen that tries to keep up, and does fairly well. The rest are just shit. Although Rust really tries too hard to be the hippest place in town and instead falls just a bit short of being even remotely cool. Still it’s soon to be the only decent venue left since everything cool and vibrant in this city gets shut down by either cops or bankruptcy. We shared the bill with some friends of ours. There are only a handful of good acts around here so it’s always easy to know who to team up with; though I’m not sure I’m the right person to trust in these matters being a contestant as well and all. Anyway, for the second time in a row we packed the joint and threw a hell of a ball. Actually did our very first public gig there some three years ago supporting Buzzcocks. So we play, and sweat and drink and trash it all up a bit to get people going, and they get going alright.

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IN THE DANISH CA

what’s up and what’s down, wipe my face to get a grip and can tell by the blood on my hands that my forehead is split open somewhat; nothing much though.

So we hit the bar, me, the guys and their girls, get disgusted with the place and the peop le as soon as we’re out of free drinks and move on to another bar. It’s always hard to call it a night in a city where there are bars still open at 7am in the morn ing. I fail to persuade the gang to follow me to the beach for a quick January night dip and head hom e, as I’m out of fags, drinks or friends to buy me one either. Wake up, body aching in a thousand places, mou th dry with dark rum sorrow, bruises on my head , cuts on my arm and cigarette burns on my chest . Yes, yes!! That’s Copenhagen for ya’; just around the bend lies either death, mayhem or just devastatingly dull everyday triviality. Just like everywhere else. But y’know, if we all just once in a while surrender to mutual ecstasies and get to dig the moment and each other in sudden temporal unity, realising that everybody’s up for a riot, then we HAVE a fucking riot. Because even if they won’t admit it, everybody is always up for a riot, ‘cause riots always make it all worth the whole damn while.

Head up backstage afterwards where apparently the entire club has decided to get their after show kicks. Nothing wrong, always love having peeps join in on some good ole fun ‘n’ binging, but I really could use a cold beer and they’ve ripped the fridge just as we would if we hadn’t been on stage. So I down So this track we’ve contributed is one that for some a quarter of rum, the only thing left, in one deep time, when we first started out here in Cope nhagen, furious hit and go out on the staircase to talk with stirred up proper riots in its own right. We used to this tattooed guy who ends our conversation by end our set with it and everybody came on stage trying to strangle me with his bare hands. I tell him, dancing, screaming in drunken glee, and my squeezing hands his both tearing with as good as I can the stage, the venue and even Night herself apart. neck with the full force of pure and ferocious hate, Moments when everything came toget fucking means he unless shit this her, and the for that I’m not up world lay open and bare in big prolifi c sparks of business, and apparently he does. He knocks me cosmic significance, and we all ate her up bursting out and down the stairs, and I wake up not knowing with unbound riotous bliss. las www.rust.dk

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TRACK: ‘Till Love Do Us Part (I Want To Sha Sha In Your La La) BY SHA LA LAS

THE RAKES

PETER BJORN AND JOHN

V2 Records

Wichita Records

You implore most groups around to progress just a little, but Rakes are an opposite instance. They’re actually best when they do the same old thing, i.e. repeat debut ‘Capture/ Release’ but tinker with or deconstruct it a bit. Here, the best songs, like the cracking ‘1989’, reinvigorate the Neu motorik grooves of their debut, ably abetted by the city of Berlin’s ambience, where it was recorded. While ‘Shackleton’ plays with the same beat but pulls the song apart and breaks it down. Elsewhere though, in trying to add variety they actually regress. ‘You’re In It’ sounds like a grot rock relic and, paradoxically considering the recording location, more London-ish than before. Come on Alan Donahoe, be an indie Bo Diddley, and make the same record twenty times.

Swedish trio summer hit, ‘Young Folks’ won its admirers with its power to manipulate whistle stop pop into singa-long status. Unfortunately, there is little on Living Thing that reaches such conclusions. Instead of lilting through simple, folk-pop, Living Thing takes a more experimental angle, flooding awkward rhythms and shouted vocals above plaintive chord progressions, ultimately removing what the trio’s strengths. Oddball percussion and childlike choral arrangements take precedent, leaving the finish inconsistent and forgettable. Even the single, ‘Nothing to Worry About’, struggles in asserting itself. A mulligan maybe, because they’re much better than this.

Words: Stuart Gadd

Words: Shain Shapiro

MIKE RELM

ASOBI SEKSU

Radio Fried Records

One Little Indian

San Francisco hip-hop producer Mike Relm has roped various hip-hop notables for his sample-free electro debut, but despite the obvious RJD2 influences, it all seems a bit flimsy. The synthy noodling and punchy guitar lines lack substance and Relm seems more comfortable when going for a grimier industrial sound. But the drums let it down by failing to provide any real oomph. However ‘Spectacle’ has its moments. ‘Vertiglo’, is a blissful little instrumental break while ‘Everytime’ with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien is a fresh straight hiphop joint with a nice hook. ‘Technicism’ also provides some throaty liquid nastiness, but all in all, it’s never clear what Relm is really trying to achieve.

Sounding like a rippling, psychedelic pop daydream, Brooklyn duo Asobi Seksu have conjured up a absolute nugget of a third album that wholly throws off the shoe gazing shackles still hanging around from their 2004 debut. Written in a period where the band felt ‘destroyed’, Mogwai fans will be pleased to hear Asobi Seksu’s wall of sound still firmly in place. Not least on ‘I Can’t See’. It lies somewhere between My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros and the orgasmic prog of Mew. For the most part, guitarist and co-songwriter James Hanna gallantly jangles his way through things, although ‘Glacially’ is an Explosions In The Sky-esq stomper. ‘Hush’ is a record that deserves to list Asobi Seksu fully into orbit. Heavenly stuff.

Words: Richard Chesterman

Words: Andrew Future

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ALBUM REVIEWS

Spectacle

Living Thing

Hush

LONEY, DEAR

THE LONG LOST

Regal/EMI

Ninja Tune

Loney, Dear is impressively consistent. Albums one through four are strong, dreamy pop triumphs, as each song works towards a common goal, working towards the ultimate somnambulist pop. Album five, Dear John, continues the trend. Again, it is undeniably lovely. This time, a slightly more upbeat backdrop prevails, as horn and string arrangements meet drum machines and scuttled whistling, but beneath the accoutrements lies powerfully good song writing once again. ‘Airport Surroundings’ is quick but endearing, while ‘Harsh Words’ is, quite possibly, the best song Loney, Dear has written to date. It’s faultless, from end-to-end. Sweden certainly has talent, and Loney, Dear is one of their best.

Cutting through like a trippy blur of Elbow and Icelandic experimentalists Múm, this Californian duo are totally unlike anything currently around. Their blissful debut is sure to be one of the best albums released this year and from the opening seconds, it’s quite unique. Highschool-sweethearts turned married couple Alfred and Laura Darlington cerate delicate, electro-acoustic ambience that seems to grip the entire record in an utterly and quite hopelessly romantic fashion. Laura’s simple lyrics match the lush, often spacious backdrops that carve out rushes of wonder and sadness. These aren’t so much sci-fi lullabies as electric psalms. Remember how you felt the first time you heard Air’s ‘Moon Safari’ or Portishead’s ‘Dummy’? You’ll feel like that every time you play this.

Words: Shain Shapiro

Words: Andrew Future

ELVIS PERKINS

pure reason revolution

XL Records

Superball Music

By God, you’re going to need some patience if you’re going to ‘get’ this record. Aiming for an eavesdropped feel of liars bar Americana, it instead ends up driving you round the bend, courtesy of repetitively circuitous time signatures and mucho minor chords. So instead of intimacy you end up virtually with entropy, which is really what going round in circles is. And it doesn’t help either that you’re being chased round by the 4th of July band from hell, parping away on their flugelhorns on many of the tracks. Opener ‘Shampoo’ is bright enough but only the Dylan/Simon and Garfunkel-ish ‘Send My Fond Regards to Lonelyville’ really enlivens. Plainly adorned with tambourine, acoustic guitar and scratched violin, it actually moves forward.

PRR have always been about the kind of stylish, intelligent electro not designed for this disposable generation. ‘Amor…’ is a much tighter affair than their epic debut. It’s more direct, more punchy, but no less sprawling. It’s still bloody pretentious (just have a listen to the frenetic ‘Victorious Cupid’), but in the most wonderful of ways. They’ve always been a band that write movements that are all about the melodies and moments. Like Secret Machines and Oceansize, PRR will never appeal to everyone, but for those with a taste for blistering melodies and cinematic song craft doused in with intelligence and pretension in equal measure, Pure Reason Revolution will be the greatest discovery you’ve made in a very long time.

Words: Stuart Gadd

Words: Andrew Future

Dear John

Dearland

Living Thing

Amor Vincit Omnia

BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH...

KRISTIAN MARR Photo: VIVA ZACCARI

King of the swingers comes to mind (not that sort). He hasn’t quite reached the top yet but then he’s certainly not willing to stop. Here is our musical VIP Kristian Marr. It all comes into account when you delve into his band hoping antics, from Los Muertos (with Alex Claire), rampaging with Punk rock outfit Towers of London...to seeing in a summer of song writing. Now he’s back again in full swing with his latest musical outfit, a folk rock alliance with Alan Wass, The Lipstick Melodies... TRACK: So Strange by Kristian Marr

Right now I’m… Working on my new band with Alan Wass – The Lipstick Melodies I’m inspired by… Geordie Phil, Frankie Marr, Little Liza and The Flying Scotsman And listening to… Rory Gallagher, Michael Jackson Not a lot of people know that… My granddad was in a band with Hank Marvin – The Doorsteps…R.I.P I’ll never forget the time… Alex Claire and I went to Paris for the weekend. I was held hostage in a hotel room with a shotgun. I’m currently wearing to death… Velvet jacket, Wrangler jeans, Chelsea boots… If I could meet anyone (dead or alive) it would be… Bon Scott Or have a conversation with any animal it would be… Scooby Doo I like my eggs… Fertilised Elvis is definitely… Dead

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Des Pom incesses

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ES TUNT O K STAL BY

1. MYSTERY JETS - YOUNG LOVE

“If I only knew your name I’d go from door to door” (let’s be honest, he’ll probably just track her on facebook, it’s 2009), “tell me have you seen the girl, I’ve met just once before”

2. PULP - I SPY

“I spy a girl, I spy a boy” Do you think I do these things for real?” It doesn’t count if it’s online, honest.

3. BLONDIE - ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

“I’m gonna find ya, I’m gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya”

There’s just no sense of mystery these days…but then you don’t have to rely on the drunken judgment made when donning that mighty fine pair of beer goggles either. Sod making that call and arranging another date…you know the score. Get straight on the net, hunt them down and check out their credentials; winner, loser? Well at least you don’t have to make the same mistake twice. But please bear in mind…some people really do look better in the flesh.

4. THERAPY - STALK AND SLASH

London DJ duo Princesses des Pommes, mix new and classic indie with cool pop, 80’s retro and a shot of electro. Here they give their top ten tunes to stalk by… and is that still really a dirty word? What with Facebook and Myspace we can dip in and out of people’s lives as if we were, well…best mates! Forget curtain twitching, we can spy on people…everywhere!•

7. THE CURE - PICTURES OF YOU

To find out more about Princesses des Pommes next gigs or book them for a venue go to www.myspace.com/princessesdespommes Intro: Sarah Hardy Illustration: Lucy Barker Playlist by Isabel Dexter & Aline Bentley AKA Princesses Des Pommes

“Don’t look now; he’s hiding in the shadows”

5. TEENAGERS - HOMECOMING

“and don’t forget to send me a friend request”... I bet the American C***t will be stalking her English Romance.

6. THE KILLERS - JENNY WAS A FRIEND OF MINE

“She couldn’t scream while I held her close, I swore I’d never let her go” Oh, well it’s Jenny’s fault, she was his friend on facebook after all. “I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you, that I almost believe that they’re real”. Log off! Get a grip!

8. SOULWAX - E-TALKING

“Names that sound familiar... a part of the weekend never dies” I bet sometimes you wish you’d given a fake name

9. FAT BOY SLIM - SLASH DOT DASH

“Gone too far, gone too far.” For the geeks deep inside us. Dot.Come

10. ANIMOTION - OBSESSION

“Who do you want me to be, to make you sleep with me?” Or at least accept my friend request...

AND A CLASSIC...

DEAN MARTIN - On the Street Where You Live

“And oh what a towering feeling, just to know you are near. That old harrowing feeling, that any second you may appear.” Stalking the old-fashion way.